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German Chancellor Angela Merkel made good her promise to support fellow conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election campaign on Monday, by making a series of TV appearances with the leader who has yet to formally announce his candidacy.

Following talks in Berlin on Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said boosting European growth is a priority and urged Greece to restructure its debt before receiving new bailout funds.

An English town council has decided to end a 46-year twinning relationship with towns in France and Germany. Is it euroscepticism, or has the twinning of towns become anachronistic and irrelevant?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced after meeting in Berlin Sunday that they would jointly present proposals on a new package to stabilise the eurozone by the end of the month.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is in Paris Saturday for talks with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, one day after the European Commission gave its members ten days to recapitalise overexposed banks.

The leaders of France and Germany have called for "true European economic governance" and proposed enshrining balanced finances in the constitutions of the eurozone’s 17 members after talks on Europe’s spiralling debt crisis.

French and German leaders are set to meet in Paris Tuesday to discuss the eurozone’s spiralling debt crisis. Ahead of the talks, Berlin ruled out the much mooted “euro bonds” option.

Spanish cucumbers have been cleared of charges they caused the recent deadly outbreak of E.coli. But at Europe's largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris, the sale of cucumbers has ground to a halt.

Marc Perelman discusses the future of nuclear energy in Europe with Jean-Marc Gonin, Senior Writer with Le Figaro Magazine; and Philip Turle, Journalist with RFI.

Germany’s announcement that it would phase out nuclear power production has shed new light on the conflicted French attitude towards the possibility of abandoning nuclear development.