Until very recently, Günther Oettinger and Pierre Moscovici had not yet found time to have lunch together. Six months after being named to the EU executive, the two commissioners have embarked on more diplomatic, if not friendly, relations.
The new tone is evidenced in their joint opinion piece published in the press on 11 May. No more unilateral assaults on France: time for Franco-German "mutual respect". Every word is carefully considered "for an ambitious and balanced combination of investment, fiscal…