Brussels to Berlin: stop talking and start saving

As the European Commission today prepares to unveil measures that Germany should take to improve its budgetary situation, the monetary affairs commissioner, Pedro Solbes has sharpened Brussels' rhetoric against the EU's biggest economy.

In an interview with French business daily La Tribune, Mr Solbes said, "if it was sufficent for a country to sit around a table and talk in order to be considered co-operative and avoid sanctions, then it would be a different pact".

This is a fla...