Sarkozy is man of the match amid domestic political games

A LOT of nasty little domestic political games were being played at Friday’s EU summit that was billed as the one to finally protect the euro.

Perhaps the nastiest was the internal domestic political ploys — and the man of this match must be Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.

Take the issue of what is being called the “golden rule” in France — that countries put into their constitution or equivalent law, a debt brake saying that governments must run balanced budgets. In other words that they cannot spend any more on services for the citizens that they have in the kitty.