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Sarkozy: It All Comes Down to France and Germany

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Posted on Dec 1, 2011
AP / Michael Probst

The Euro sculpture stands in front of the European Central Bank in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, last month.

In a speech Thursday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confronted the economic quagmire otherwise known as the eurozone and declared that France and Germany would be the key players in Europe’s rehabilitation. Also important in Sarkozy’s scheme was the idea that stricter regulations would help ward off further catastrophe, a notion that seems anathema to many U.S. lawmakers.  —KA

BBC:

Mr Sarkozy said Europe’s response to the debt crisis had not been fast enough.

He said Germany and France had agreed that there should be a new European treaty to govern the relations between countries.

However, he rejected German suggestions that national budgets could be approved and regulated in Brussels.

The BBC Paris correspondent, Christian Fraser, says the French president’s speech was a sombre assessment of the eurozone crisis and an acknowledgement that eurozone leaders had not worked quickly enough to solve the problems.

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By Klaipeda, December 2, 2011 at 6:36 pm Link to this comment
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I think whenever major changes are made to an organization, whether it is a corporation, a continent, a country or an economic system, there will be problems to be overcome. 

The formation of the common currency was a major change.  I also believe the Europeans have intelligent leaders to deal with the problems, but I don’t think the solutions are easy.  But I think if they can overcome these problems, Europe will become the major economic power in the world. 

I consider the breakup of the European empires after WW I the biggest mistake in history.  The breakup of Germany and Austria particularly caused huge economic problems and social problems when millions of Germans were separated from their countries when they were absorbed by the new countries created.  This was the cause of WW I.

Economically, the EU is a reversal of what was done in 1919, with the common currency extending to the Ukraine’s border.

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By drbhelthi, December 2, 2011 at 5:37 am Link to this comment

Germany, perhaps. 

Sarkozy betrayed Frenchmen and France, leading NATO to destroy Libya, a civilized, independent nation, with a standard of living that exceeded that of France.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVlU2jHT70&feature=related

Excerpted:  “French President Sarkozy is an infamous Luciferian womanizer involved in the international “Objectification” and exploitation of women.  In his third marriage, he was rewarded with a former top BUNGA BUNGA “Presidential Model” MK ULTRA Monarch Sex Slave model, Carla Bruni.” 
Treated as a human, female animal, Bruni enjoys only that which the illuminati clan allows her, only to display her body.  Where is her opinion presented by news media? 

“The CIA and the Mafia got the Luciferian French President that they created. Sarkozi’s half brother of Christine de Ganay, Pierre Olivier, under the American name of Oliver, was named by SMOM Frank Carlucci as the director of the new investment fund of the Carlyle Group (common investment firm of the Bush and Ben Laden Families). Oliver handles the main assets of the sovereign funds of Kuwait and Singapore.[59]”
http://mindcontrolblackassassins.wordpress.com/category/racial-mass-murder/

It was Mrs. Merkel of Germany, who recognized the abortive behavior of Sarkozy, leading NATO to destroy Libya.  Mrs. Merkel and Germany, who did not participate in the violation of international law in the destruction of Libya and Muammar Al Ghadaffi. 

Sarkozy, who double-crossed France´s support of Liberty and Freedom, valiantly established by Charles de Gaul, maintained by Jacques Chirac, who was replaced by the international satanic cabal, with a non-Frenchman, Sarkozy.

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By Observer, December 1, 2011 at 10:56 pm Link to this comment
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In spite of what is here descriptive called >the economic quagmire otherwise known as the eurozone < there is little doubt that both,Sarkozy and Merkel,have a common agenda,a clear understanding and ” the Brain ” to deal with the challenges the EU is facing on variety of Issues.

Fortunately,the European Union has many competent,
well educated Politicians,with a broad range of international background experience and some good basic common sense. . . . . which cannot be said about most of the GOP-Candidates we have been seeing these days on National TV running for the nomination within the Republican Party. 


http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800850,00.html

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By Gerald pechenuk, December 1, 2011 at 10:23 pm Link to this comment
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Out of a decent respect for truth, Sarkozy and the other European Leaders,
as well as the central bankers and the private bankers of all of the Euro Nations, as
well as all of the media analysts and experts, all, have only ONE, and ONLY ONE
OPTION TO AVOID LYING.

  “Don’t say anything, keep your collective mouth shuts.”

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By Blueokie, December 1, 2011 at 9:17 pm Link to this comment

This is a joke.  Think of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland as being steered into sub-prime mortgages and the EU as AIG.  Wall Street has a few trillion tied up in CDO’s, CDS’s, currency swaps and all the usual suspects that we’re all so familiar with by now, of over-leveraged speculation.  Replacing the democratically elected governments of Greece and Italy with bankster technocrats to do Wall Streets bidding is just a preview.  After driving us off the cliff, they now have us sitting underneath it while it collapses on top of us.  The “austerity” thats about to be forced on all of us will make the last three years seem like a warm up. We’re going to be forced to make Wall Street’s imaginary values pay off at 100%.

On the brighter side, this has to have a lot of people in the Southern Hemisphere smiling, as we have been doing this to them for the last 40 years.  Wall Street just finally is getting around to us.  Ain’t karma a bitch?

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By Robespierre115, December 1, 2011 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment

Whoever wrote the description for this article is a little confused. Sarkozy never once advocated regulations in the sense of what Republicans hate, Sarkozy and Merkel are demanding that Europe continue imposing brutal, right-wing austerity measures on its population or face the consequences dictated by Paris and Berlin.

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