An incoming Conservative government will face isolation and the political enmity of Germany and France for not "cooperating" with the Lisbon European Union Treaty Angela Merkel has warned.

Spiegel suggests that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering abandoning her plan to increase economic cooperation between all EU member states, in order to reinforce Eurozone cooperation, through the creation of Eurozone Treaty, which would operate in parallel with the Lisbon Treaty.

At a CDU campaign meeting in Berlin for the June European elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, “We refuse to stretch out our hand to those who oppose the Lisbon Treaty…that allows the entry of new members [in the EU], but who at the same time talk about enlargement.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that EU treaty changes rather than eurobonds will help solve the eurozone debt crisis.

Focus reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted that EU Treaty changes are the only way to achieve the kind of EU budgetary surveillance and discipline measures Berlin is seeking. “We need a stronger oversight mechanism for the stability and growth pact and the European Commission can only make suggestions below treaty change,” said Merkel.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has warned Mr Cameron that unless he accepts unconditional changes to the Lisbon Treaty a split will take place, leaving Britain isolated and in a voting minority within the EU. “She explicitly told Cameron that if there was no treaty change at the level of the 27 EU members then

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave her backing on Monday (8 March) to a proposed European Monetary Fund to rescue ailing eurozone member countries but warned this would mean changing the European Union treaty.

Handelsblatt reports that Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are split over whether a new Treaty designed to impose greater fiscal discipline and control in the eurozone should be agreed by all 27 member states, or through a separate Treaty involving the 17 eurozone countries only.

Despite BBC reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is “confident” that Lisbon will be implemented, Irish PM Brian Cowen said in a meeting with Gordon Brown yesterday that plans for ratifying ‘Lisbon II’ will not be finalised until after next week’s EU summit.

The European Union will need a new treaty to create a European Monetary Fund, modelled on the International Monetary Fund, both to bail out member states of the eurozone in crisis, and impose strict conditions on their budget policies, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said