Thursday, April 3, 2014

20th-21st Century Relations with Neighbors: France and Switzerland


 
Relations with France

50 Jahre deutsch-französische Freundschaft
Datei: 2013_12_12_Themenheader_Elysee.psd

  
Guests arriving for the initiation of a new German Embassy building in Paris, 1968

 
Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in 1961

 
François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl in 1987

50th anniversary of reconciliation, 8 July 2012: Dr. Angela Merkel (left), Federal Chancellor of Germany, with François Hollande (right), President of the French Republic.







Relations with Switzerland

Germans nowadays are appreciated as highly-skilled labour and academics, but are not always given a warm welcome by the Swiss. History, language and politics have all affected the two nations’ changing relationship in the past century.



Not always hostile: a German flag hoisted alongside a Swiss one to welcome a visiting sports team


 
 Expatriate Germans Gerald Rinke, Sandra Günter and Ulf Schiller


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