Breaking with the tradition of pre-EU summit meetings between France and Germany, French leader Nicolas Sarkozy met with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, to speak out in favour of boosting public investment in Europe as a way to escape an economic slowdown caused by the financial crisis, while Germany remains sceptical.
"We have looked at how, just as many years ago investment in road and rail and infrastructure was a powerful stimulus to the economies then, so too in this new age...
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