France-Germany

Same old story

Published on 17 August 2011 at 15:26

"We'll do what we always do. I'll say it's your fault ..."

"...and I'll say it's yours!"

In a meeting on August 16, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel hammered out a series of proposals to shore up market confidence in the euro.

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