By Mark John PARIS (Reuters) - Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, head of France's ruling Socialists and a close ally of President Francois Hollande, issued an open letter to the German people on Thursday urging them to re-think their place in Europe. The letter, which starts "mein lieber Freund" ("my dear friend"), shows how ties between the two EU founding nations have been strained over Greece, on which Germany pushed against France to demand tough bail-out terms. "Europe, my dear friend, does not understand your country's stubbornness in blindly pursuing the path of austerity," he wrote.
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