‘Stable tandem.’ On 21 January 2011, German cartoonist Nik Ebert illustrates the joint action by the Franco-German tandem to support European integration and rescue the euro. One week later, on 27 January, at the Davos World Economic Forum, French President Nicolas Sarkozy reaffirms that ‘… both [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel and myself, we will by no means abandon the euro. By no means! […] The euro is Europe. Europe has meant 60 years of peace on our continent. Therefore we will never let the euro go or be destroyed.’