The French and German leaders are meeting in Paris for annual talks that are likely to be dominated by discussions of the continent’s financial and economic woes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are expected to discuss further measures to tackle mounting eurozone debt.
They are also expected to discuss the crisis in Syria after Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution that would have supported an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
Sarkozy has said France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to the violence there and the international standoff over how to respond to it.
Compiled from Reuters reports
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