A few weeks before German unification, at a Franco-German summit in 1990, the French president, Francois Mitterrand, gave what Le Monde called a "bitter" little speech. Mitterrand declared that France had "no complexes" about the emergence of a great new German power at the heart of Europe. A new era for Europe was opening up, in which he predicted there would be "no lack of conflicts, rivalries and misunderstandings." Indeed, he went on, "I don't know why Ispeak of the future."
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