France, Germany Discuss Radical Overhaul of EU

[Forgiven]

By Julien Toyer and Annika Breidthardt
Reuters
Wed Nov 9, 2011

"This will unravel everything our forebears have painstakingly built up and repudiate all that they stood for in the past sixty years," one EU diplomat told Reuters. "This is not about a two-speed Europe, we already have that. This will redraw the map geopolitically and give rise to new tensions. It could truly be the end of Europe as we know it."

"In doing this exercise, we will be very serious on the criteria that will be used as a benchmark to integrate and share our economic policies."

One senior German government official said it was a case of pruning the euro zone to make it stronger.

"You'll still call it the euro, but it will be fewer countries," he said, without identifying those that would have to drop out.

Exclusive: French, Germans explore idea of core euro zone | Reuters

[Littlejoe]

Last days events are moving faster and faster each day.Man this is making my
head spin at the speed of world events...Europe needs a smaller Euro zone??Yeah like 10 !!!