French centre right presidential candidate Francois Fillon is under increasingly intense pressure to quit the race after revelations he paid his wife almost a million dollars (832 000 euros) for work as a parliamentary assistant that she allegedly did not do.
On Thursday, France 2 television broadcast an interview Penelope Fillon gave to the Sunday Telegraph in 2007 in which she said she had never worked for her husband - although accounts show he had been paying her a salary since 1988.
Our Europe correspondent Elena Casas reports from Brussels.
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