"German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy did their best to portray the results of the treaty as 26-1, Isolating the UK. Actual results are vastly different.
Everywhere you look there are splinters and cracks, even in France and Germany. Here is one I just came across: France says not planning budget rule vote for now
Everywhere you look there are splinters and cracks, even in France and Germany. Here is one I just came across: France says not planning budget rule vote for now
France will not schedule a bicameral parliamentary vote for a constitutional budget-balancing rule while the opposition Socialist Party remains opposed to the idea, government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse said on Wednesday.at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/12/crumbling-of-comprehensive-solution-no.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis+%28Mish%27s+Global+Economic+Trend+Analysis%29
"There can be no question of holding a vote unless the opposition changes its position," Pecresse a news briefing after a weekly cabinet meeting.
Sarkozy's efforts to get a fiscal rule enshrined in the constitution have been thwarted by left-wing opposition, but he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday they would seek EU backing by March to have such clauses put into law across the euro zone..."
