Hollande Criticism Shows He Doesn’t Get It: Merkel Ally

Francois Hollande’s stepped-up attacks on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s belt-tightening solution to Europe’s crisis show he doesn’t understand his country’s economic shortcomings, an aide to the German leader said.

The intensifying war of words between the French presidential race frontrunner and Merkel is putting the two politicians from Europe’s two largest economies on a collision course over ending the region’s sovereign debt crisis.