European leaders clashed over joint debt sales as they called onGreece to stick with the budget cuts needed to stay in the euro andoffered no immediate relief for recession-wracked Spain.
The 18th summit in more than two years of crisis fighting wasmarked by new French President Francois Hollande's challenge to theGerman-dominated deficit-cutting orthodoxy that has failed tostabilize the euro area and led to speculation that Greece might beforced out.
“We had a not unheated discussion on euro bonds,” LuxembourgPrime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters in Brussels earlytoday after six hours of talks. Joint borrowing “didn't find muchsupport, particularly in the German speaking area, but found acertain enthusiasm in the French speaking area.”
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