'Shut your trap, Merkel!' French MEP slams German Chancellor over call for more cuts

Just as Angela Merkel finished reminding France and Italy (again) that they weren’t making enough progress on tightening their budgets, a left-wing French politician reacted with a tweet, reading: ‘Shut your trap, Frau Merkel! France is free.’

The French MEP, Jean-Luc Melanchon, in the same tweet, continuing in French, told the ‘frau’ (woman) to concentrate instead on her own country’s poverty and crumbling infrastructure.

This was in response to Merkel’s warnings for the two countries to trim their spending, which she outlined in a recent interview to Die Welt am Sonntag.

"The Commission has made clear that what has been put on the table so far is insufficient. I would agree with this."

In late November, France, Italy and Belgium were given until March 2015 to start spending according to EU rules. The first two countries have been facing increasing pressure in 2014 and experts worried they would overspend. On Monday, the EU repeated the comments with an added warning that the two may face disciplinary action.

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