Reality clouds Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union plans
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"Reality clouds Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union plans
By Tom Pfeiffer and Jon Boyle RABAT/PARIS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy is known for relishing a challenge but the French leader's goal of coaxing more than a dozen Mediterranean countries into an EU-style union seems to have geopolitical realities stacked against it. Besides sharing the same stretch of salty water, there appears little to connect the hotchpotch of seaside states that run from poor, tightly controlled societies with command economies to wealthy, secular liberal democracies."
"Reality clouds Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union plans
By Tom Pfeiffer and Jon Boyle RABAT/PARIS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy is known for relishing a challenge but the French leader's goal of coaxing more than a dozen Mediterranean countries into an EU-style union seems to have geopolitical realities stacked against it. Besides sharing the same stretch of salty water, there appears little to connect the hotchpotch of seaside states that run from poor, tightly controlled societies with command economies to wealthy, secular liberal democracies."
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