[France and Germany] stand accused of being the America of Europe—a two-headed superpower that has the rest of the European Union lunging at its throat. Their supposed crimes: flouting EU economic rules, scripting to their design a constitution that was meant to be a Magna Carta for all of Europe and generally hijacking the great European project.
The row burst into the open last week when France and Germany bullied their EU partners into accepting a temporary suspension of the EU’s stability-and-growth pact. Europe’s two largest economies have both violated its strictures, running too-high budget deficits. article
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Sunday, November 30, 2003
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