Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor, will present fellow European leaders on Thursday with a proposal for a Mediterranean Union that leaves sensitive questions unanswered about how the scheme will operate.
According to a Franco-German document obtained by the Financial Times, the Mediterranean Union will seek to strengthen co-operation among the European Union’s 27 member states and non-EU, mainly Muslim, countries in north Africa and the Middle East.
