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Summary: <p>Germany and France are a couple tied together by fate.<br><br>In the beginning, they were always at each others' throats. At last, they realized they weren't so different. So they stopped fighting and tied themselves together through — what else? — money.<br><br>On today's show, the story of France and Germany — the relationship on which the fate of Europe depends.</p>