France has taken aim at the failure of some EU countries to rapidly ratify an emergency programme for the bloc's coronavirus-hit economies, singling out Germany.
The EU's €750bn virus recovery fund, agreed last summer, requires ratification from all 27 EU states before it can be accessed, but only 16 have so far ratified the plan.
Last week, Germany's Constitutional Court halted ratification in a surprise move, after five individuals filed a challenge that resulted in a temporary injunction.
The plaintiffs argued that the EU should not be pooling debt but that it is up to each country to underwrite its own borrowing to pay for the stimulus. "I promised the French people that the European money would arrive at the start of the summer, at the