11:22 GMT, 14 May 2012 The Daily Mail
Hollande and Merkel set for showdown on fate of Euro... as Greece continues
to teeter on the brink without a government.
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The fate of the Euro could be decided in the next 48 hours - when France's new 'champion of growth'
President meets with Germany's 'austerity cheerleader' Chancellor.
Francois Hollande is set to meet Angela Merkel in Berlin tomorrow, soon after he is sworn in as President,
in what observers hope will result in a deal to help save the single currency.
The summit comes amid growing pessimism over the future of the euro in its current form, and against a
background of political paralysis in Greece and a worsening crisis, and protests, in Spain.
It also follows a bad weekend for Merkel, whose Christian Democrats were 'crushed' in yesterday's North-Rhine
Westphalia elections, and who faces increasing isolation due to her austerity measures.
The regional election, which involved one in four Germany voters and seen as a 'gauge of the future of
national politics', saw her party drop between eight and nine points on two years ago.
It could be seen as a further fillip for the European centre-left, which is championing growth measures to dig
the continent out of its sovereign debt crisis, as opposed to austerity measures being pushed through by the
centre-right.
Hollande and Merkel set for showdown on fate of Euro... as Greece continues
to teeter on the brink without a government.
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The fate of the Euro could be decided in the next 48 hours - when France's new 'champion of growth'
President meets with Germany's 'austerity cheerleader' Chancellor.
Francois Hollande is set to meet Angela Merkel in Berlin tomorrow, soon after he is sworn in as President,
in what observers hope will result in a deal to help save the single currency.
The summit comes amid growing pessimism over the future of the euro in its current form, and against a
background of political paralysis in Greece and a worsening crisis, and protests, in Spain.
It also follows a bad weekend for Merkel, whose Christian Democrats were 'crushed' in yesterday's North-Rhine
Westphalia elections, and who faces increasing isolation due to her austerity measures.
The regional election, which involved one in four Germany voters and seen as a 'gauge of the future of
national politics', saw her party drop between eight and nine points on two years ago.
It could be seen as a further fillip for the European centre-left, which is championing growth measures to dig
the continent out of its sovereign debt crisis, as opposed to austerity measures being pushed through by the
centre-right.
