‘EUROPE’. On 7 April 1997, as the European Union foreign ministers meet in Noordwijk, cartoonist Willem illustrates the opposition between France and Germany on the reform of the European institutions and paints an ironic picture of the proposal by French President Jacques Chirac (on the left) to give greater influence to the large countries within an enlarged European Union. On the right, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the other European partners are concerned at the French proposal.