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SARKOZY TELLS CAMERON TO "SHUT UP" OVER EURO
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 24, 2011 - 13:48 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tensions between Paris and London flared up on
Sunday, October 23 amid crisis talks on the eurozone, as President
Nicolas Sarkozy of France hit out at British criticisms of the single
currency.
"You have lost a good opportunity to shut up," the Guardian, a UK
paper, reports the French leader as telling UK Prime Minister David
Cameron. "We are sick of you criticizing us and telling us what to do.
You say you hate the euro and now you want to interfere in our
meetings."
The row centered on concerns by the UK leader that decisions taken
solely by the eurozone members would have impact on the single market
shared by all 27 euro and non-euro using members of the European Union.
The reported bust-up caused an hour-and-a-half delay to a joint
press conference between Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
mid-afternoon.
In the end, the EU leaders reached a compromise that all 27 will
first discuss the comprehensive eurozone crisis response package at
a subsequent summit in Brussels on Wednesday, but that the eurozone
chiefs themselves will have the last word on the matters at their
own separate meeting immediately afterward, EUobserver reported.
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 24, 2011 - 13:48 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tensions between Paris and London flared up on
Sunday, October 23 amid crisis talks on the eurozone, as President
Nicolas Sarkozy of France hit out at British criticisms of the single
currency.
"You have lost a good opportunity to shut up," the Guardian, a UK
paper, reports the French leader as telling UK Prime Minister David
Cameron. "We are sick of you criticizing us and telling us what to do.
You say you hate the euro and now you want to interfere in our
meetings."
The row centered on concerns by the UK leader that decisions taken
solely by the eurozone members would have impact on the single market
shared by all 27 euro and non-euro using members of the European Union.
The reported bust-up caused an hour-and-a-half delay to a joint
press conference between Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
mid-afternoon.
In the end, the EU leaders reached a compromise that all 27 will
first discuss the comprehensive eurozone crisis response package at
a subsequent summit in Brussels on Wednesday, but that the eurozone
chiefs themselves will have the last word on the matters at their
own separate meeting immediately afterward, EUobserver reported.