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Euro-worries A continental drift to the left Slovakia's strongman bows out Oil that motor Oskar Lafontaine's commanding German presence ReprintsNaturally, on his first visit to France as chancellor-elect, on September 30th, Mr Schröder declared his loyal devotion to the German axis.

If all goes according to plan, the EU will include ten countries that were once part of the Soviet empire, to say nothing of the three that were part of the German axis in World War II.

The Franco-German axis looked stronger.

But will the Franco-German axis remain strong?

"Until now, there was a moral case for the Franco-German axis," Mr. Gros said.

That has been the lesson of the Franco-German axis since 1956.

"The time when the Franco-German axis made Europe's weather," it opined, "seems definitively over".

One is the erosion of the Franco-German axis that has been one of the consequences of Gerhard Schröder's chancellorship.

France, eager to show that the French-German axis is thriving, has even backed Germany's stance on central bank lending.

"[French president François] Hollande has invested a lot of hope in the new Franco-German axis", said Ulrike Guerot, a fellow at the Open Society Institute.

Europe-watchers will be scrutinising the proceedings closely to see if new Franco-German axis to replace "Merkozy" be a French-dominated "HoMer" or a German dominated "Merklande".