Entente discordiale

Published on 19 December 2011

David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, watched by Angela Merkel.

Following David Cameron's refusal to sign up to a new pact designed to shore up the euro, several French officials have argued that it's Britain rather than France which should lose it's triple A rating.

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