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German emigration to France has resulted in it being the home of one of the largest communities of German population born outside Germany.Migration from Germany to France has increased rapidly from the 1990s onwards; by 2012, there were an estimated 130,000 German citizens living in France.
The Franco-German Ministerial Council (French: Conseil des ministres franco-allemands, German: Deutsch-Französischer Ministerrat) is the regular meeting of the ministerial cabinet of both the government of Germany and the government of France. The joint ministerial council is held approximately twice a year—in spring and autumn.
Germany: See France–Germany relations. Franco-German cooperation is widely seen as the engine of European integration. France has an embassy in Berlin and consulates-general in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart. Germany has an embassy in Paris and consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.
West Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1958, which became the EU in 1993. Germany is part of the Schengen Area, and has been a member of the eurozone since 1999. It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G7, the G20 and the OECD. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Germany a "full democracy" in 2022.
Cons: As Tucker notes, income and social taxes in France are high: up to 45% (and high-income individuals also may need to pay a surcharge of 3% on part of their income).
France–Germany relations or the Franco-German relations [a] form a part of the wider politics of the European Union. The two countries have a long – and often contentious – relationship stretching back to the Middle Ages .
The history of German foreign policy covers diplomatic developments and international history since 1871. Before 1866, Habsburg Austria and its German Confederation were the nominal leader in German affairs, but the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia exercised increasingly dominant influence in German affairs, owing partly to its ability to participate in German Confederation politics through its ...
Geography: France is surrounded by several countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany.; Religion: France had been dominated by the Catholic Church, but since the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the French government policy has been based on Laïcité, which is one of the constitution's principles.