Germany's and France's foreign ministers said that a last-minute Greek deal reached on Monday morning was based on Franco-German cooperation. Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros (61 billion pounds) bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency. "The status we have now after this night of long and difficult negotiations would not have been reached without Franco-German cooperation," Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on the sidelines of the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna.
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