translate English to French: With this development, the Union should become the linchpin between the two major assets of Germany and France: the Deutschmark and France's security and defence structure (especially the French `force de dissuasion'), together regarded by France as the nucleus of a common European defence structure.(82) It is interesting that this part of the Maastricht compromise did not evoke much criticism in Germany.
L'Union devrait ainsi devenir la pierre angulaire entre les deux grands atouts de l'Allemagne et de la France : le deutschemark et la structure de sécurité et de défense de la France (notamment sa force de dissuasion), tous deux considérés par la France comme le noyau d'une structure de défense européenne commune(82).