“French officials were insisting there would be no meeting on the steps
as protocol said that was usually reserved for leaders of government. But Mr
Hollande was keen to come down and show his support,” said a Labour
source.
Speaking after their half-hour meeting, Mr Miliband said that “the tide
is turning on austerity economics” and that the two centre-left leaders
had agreed on the need for a new agenda focusing on jobs and growth.
He said: “What President Hollande is seeking to do in France and what he
is seeking to do in leading the debate in Europe is to find that different
way forward. We are in agreement in seeking that new way”.
“There was an old set of solutions, what I call Camerkozy formula –
Cameron, Merkel, Sarkozy – around austerity. I don’t think those solutions
are working.” Britain’s place is “firmly within Europe”, he
later told French Socialist MPs.
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