France accused European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding on Tuesday of hounding it with "unacceptable" criticisms of French and German proposals to toughen EU budget rules. France's minister for Europe Pierre Lellouche reacted angrily to comments by Reding who called the plans "irresponsible" in a newspaper interview.
Reding told the German daily Die Welt in Wednesday's edition: "It seems completely irresponsible to put illusions about new treaties on the table." Lellouche said: "The terms this European Commissioner uses to denigrate the France-German proposals are unacceptable and of the same tenor as the insulting language, which I will not forget, used against France during the controversy that she herself fuelled over the Roma."
Note EU-Digest: Criticism and freedom of speech in a Democratic society is healthy Mr. Sarkozy. It should also be noted that Mrs Viviane Redding is not a puppet of France but Vice president of the European Commission and in this capacity represents 27 countries.
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