“..Angela Merkel issues veto ultimatum as European leaders refuse to give peace a chance..”

“..European leaders, meeting for the first time since the EU won the Nobel peace prize – carried on as normal last night – battling acrimoniously over the future of the euro.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel angered some other EU leaders before a two-day summit by calling for the European Commission to have the power to veto national budgets.

France and a number of other countries – unwilling to consider such a loss of sovereignty -

- accused Berlin of deliberately raising the “federal” stakes to derail, or delay, discussions on a single supervision system for banks inside the eurozone…”

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Angela Merkel issues veto ultimatum as European leaders refuse to give peace a chance – Europe – World – The Independent.

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