The Commission's decision to pursue France and Germany in the Court of Justice over their failure to observe the Stability and Growth Pact may not be a wise one.
However infuriated the Commission might be at the arrogance of the French and German finance ministers, the blame for the collapse of the Pact has to be more widely shared. Even the Commission cannot escape entirely: who was it who, in a famously unguarded moment, called the Pact 'stupid'? Nor was the Commission united in its ...
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