Is the Franco-German union heading for divorce?
"There has been increasing recognition that the kind of policies pursued have harmed as much as healed and that this is the reason Europe is not emerging from the crisis," said Hugo Brady of the CER.
"Relations are probably at a post-war low," continued Brady. "The French are insecure over the state of their economy, while the Germans are over-confident about theirs. So they don't have anything to say to each other. That's the biggest single problem the eurozone has right now."