‘Pompidou–Brandt summit. OK for equitabrandt cooperation … vibrandt friendship … and a supranationality that’s not too unmanageabrandt.’ On 7 February 1970, following the first meeting between Pompidou and Brandt on 30 and 31 January in Paris, French cartoonist Jean Effel paints an ironic picture of the attempts to establish closer relations between France and Germany under President Georges Pompidou. From left to right: Georges Pompidou, President of the French Republic, Maurice Schumann, French Foreign Minister, and Willy Brandt, West German Chancellor.