‘Engineering works at the Place de l’Europe. “Roads blocked, one-way streets changed, reserved parking spaces … Hey, grandad? We’ve really created havoc in there!”’ On 13 February 1963, French cartoonist Roland Moisan paints an ironic picture of the implications and consequences of Franco-German rapprochement, sealed by the Élysée Treaty of 22 January 1963 between President Charles de Gaulle (on the left) and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (on the right). The new Franco-German duo looks set to completely change the international and European set-up.