Well, jumping frogs, or should that be jumpy frogs?

Bad form for the French to criticise the UK's excellent sovereign debt rating.  Times are difficult enough, without unsolicited and pathetic criticism of the UK by France. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16222988

See also:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8959865/French-leaders-declare-a-war-of-words-on-Britain.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8960403/Frances-finance-minister-Francois-Baroin-Its-better-to-be-French-than-British.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100013870/in-defence-of-the-french/

Five robust responses:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8959940/France-is-staring-into-the-abyss-over-eurozone-crisis.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/andrewlilico/100013819/is-it-now-ok-for-british-politicians-and-central-bankers-to-call-for-france-to-lose-its-aaa-rating-when-can-we-start/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/damianreece/8958547/Christian-Noyer-is-wrong-what-France-lacks-is-credibility.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100124647/france-needs-us-to-survive/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/8961375/Europes-crisis-is-playing-out-like-a-French-farce.html

The agreement reached in Brussels is going off the rails with Humgary and the Czechs having doubts about tax harmonisation, with good reason. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8959632/Debt-crisis-Brussels-accord-on-the-verge-of-collapse.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16206783

Lo and behold, our 'isolation' so gleefully seized upon by Clegg, Miliband, the BBC, sundry EU Commissars and  Euopean politicians, is breaking down:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16209414

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8961528/Eurozone-reforms-to-be-co-ordinated-with-all-27-EU-member-states.html

Below are two excellent articles from Spiegel:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,803923,00.html
Pitfalls of the Merkozy Fiscal Pact

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,804228,00.html
Germany Bundesbank wary of IMF help for Europe.

Finally, some other news items:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8959687/Talk-of-nuclear-default-sums-up-Lefts-anger-at-EU-dictates.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/8959533/The-sad-death-of-multi-lateralism-makes-way-for-a-more-sinister-trend.html

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100013834/imf-chief-offers-nothing-but-platitudes/
After all she is French.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8962256/UK-banks-eurozone-zombie-fears.html

Update: 19th December.

This is very funny.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8964824/EU-crisis-The-Frogs-do-love-us-theyre-just-hopping-mad-with-Germany.html