That "Spiegel" Report
Just to make that clear, in my last post I was just paraphrasing what a German language news story said, not my opinion, as I don't have one regarding this particular topic here.
As for the report itself: I wouldn't say the "Spiegel" report shows anti-French bias. It suffers from bad reporting. Pulling a three year old report out of the file and adding it to the mix of seemingly arbitrary and/or completely unrelated numbers for some "perspective" (even if there might not be any) is typical of cheap, sloppy and sensationalist reporting.