by David Roche
It was before the wave of strikes that hit France in December that I glided into the Gare du Nord on one of France’s ultra-smooth, ultra-expensive (to the taxpayer, not the traveller) TGVs. I had two questions begging answers. First, would the Franco-German axis in Europe hold? And second, would France meet the Maastricht criteria for a European single currency by the end of 1997?
As I sat in the TGV, I let my imagination run ahead to summer 1997.
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