On 16 November 1995, three days after the first Franco-German seminar for Foreign Ministers in Paris on deepening cooperation in foreign and European policy, German cartoonist Karl-Heinz Schoenfeld illustrates the driving role of the Franco-German duo in the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union. At the centre of the cartoon, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl are guiding the European countries towards Monetary Union.