The most important appointment is for Monday. “That day I will receive Chancellor Angela Merkel – underlined Nicolas Sarkozy tonight in Toulon -. Together we will make Franco-German proposals to guarantee the future of Europe". This is the only real concrete promise made by the French President in his well-heralded and media-hyped speech "on the destiny of Europe".
He substantially postponed the problem to Monday, when, finally, some concrete proposals should arrive on the European table. “The Maastricht treaty – she added – has weaknesses and France and Germany are fighting for a new European treaty”. For him, the euro is indispensable and cannot be touched: «The disappearance of the single currency would have dramatic consequences for the French, because it would make our debt unsustainable. With the exit from the euro our debt would double».
Finally, yet more catastrophic descriptions of the current situation: "Europe risks being swept away by the crisis if it fails to recover".
