During their meeting in Berlin on Monday 22 May, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, and his French counterpart for the economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced that work on corporate and investment tax would speed up. Upstream of the Eurogroup held in Brussels on the same day, Schäuble still had misgivings over the technical solutions for Greece.
Speaking in German and addressing his friend “Wolfgang” using the familiar “du” form, the new French economy minister took pains...