Italy slams Paris and Berlin for ‘pre-cooked’ deals

Report of comments to the FT by Franco Frattini, Italy’s Foreign Minister, November 2010. He criticised France and Germany for trying to 'pre-cook' agreements for the rest of the European Union, most recently in October at the Deauville summit where Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel hammered out their compromise on budget rules and sanctions to prevent another Greek-style crisis.

He proposed instead that the 27 EU member states establish what he called a 'vanguard group', or G6, of the six largest EU countries to widen the consultative process.

ESO: Background information: Merkel’s sacrifices secure fragile triumph http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkels-sacrifices-secure-fragile-triumph/

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