When France’s Nicolas Sarkozy crowed that the euro-zone rescue plan is “95% French”, he was thinking of poll ratings at home, where voters like to hear that the French are running Europe.
When France's Nicolas Sarkozy crowed that the euro-zone rescue plan is "95% French", he was thinking of poll ratings at home, where voters like to hear that the French are running Europe.
Indeed euro-zone policymakers are now scrambling to claim the plan as their own so that they can set the terms for the economic co-ordination and surveillance that it entails.