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The article covers the controversial question, how the decision for European Economic and Monetary Union and the perspective of German Reunification interacted with each other. Were both completely unconnected, as many have claimed? Or was there an implicit Do ut Des? This question primarily refers to German-French relations, which culminated precariously in the run-up to the Strasbourg EC summit on 8 / 9 December 1989. On the basis of archival sources, many of which have been evaluated here for the first time, the author provides a clear answer to these questions by putting the emphasis of the analysis on the diverging time horizons of the two respective sides. At the end both Paris and Bonn succeeded in achieving their divergent goals and thereby creating a win-win situation at the Strasbourg Summit.