THE TELEGRAPH: President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to pull France out of the European single currency unless Germany helped bail out Greece's economy and the wider euro zone, it has emerged.
The French President slammed his fist on the table while making the threat to tear to apart the EU last Friday at a crisis summit of euro zone leaders, diplomatic sources have confirmed.
The details of the row leaked out after Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spain's Prime Minister, recounted the summit's events to members of his Socialist Party on Wednesday.
President Sarkozy, who is of Greek ancestry, demanded a "commitment from everyone to support Greece or France would reconsider its position in the euro," according to one source.
Another described how the French president smashed his clenched fist down to make his point as he declared: "If at this point, given how it's falling, Europe isn't capable of making a united response, then there is no point to the euro". >>> Henry Samuel in Paris and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels | Friday, May 14, 2010
