Sarkozy dilutes plans for Mediterranean bloc

Nicolas Sarkozy has watered down his plans to set up a union of Mediterranean states, instead agreeing with his German counterpart to revitalise an existing European Union initiative. Speaking with Angela Merkel, the ­German Chancellor, on the 3 March 2008, the French President said his project would now involve all 27 EU Member States and would be embedded in the Barcelona Process – a framework of political and economic agreements between the EU and 10 states around the Mediterranean launched in 1995.

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Wikipedia: Union for the Mediterranean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_the_Mediterranean

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