France’s Club Med
The Union for the Mediterranean may prove to be the high point of France’s EU presidency. But what the region really needs is lasting European commitment
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Sarkozy backs ‘financial Interpol’ plan
The EU and other leading economies should set up a global body to track down market abuse and to co-ordinate investigations into such crimes, a French government report urges
Sarkozy all discretion on Dublin visit
France’s president put on an uncharacteristic display of diplomatic discretion on a lightning visit to Dublin to learn the reasons behind Irish rejection of the EU Lisbon treaty
Roula Khalaf: The Mediterranean’s new union
It may not change the world but if the Union for the Mediterranean rekindles interest in Europe’s neighbours and encourages investment, that would be an achievement
Scepticism abounds on Mediterranean club
France will launch the first project of its European Union presidency when more than 40 Balkan, north African and Middle Eastern leaders inaugurate a new regional union
Sarkozy warns on ‘multi-speed’ Europe
The EU’s repeated crises over how to reform its institutions may eventually make it necessary to create a ‘multi-speed Europe’, with the most pro-integrationist countries at its heart, Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president said
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Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, talks to Ben Hall, FT Paris correspondent, about France’s plans for the EU presidency and explains how she reconciles domestic talk about opening up the economy to competition with the protectionist noises France makes on the international stage
Comment and analysis
Sarkozy the heckler
Whatever the validity of his arguments – and they are questionable – it is not the job of the European Council president to berate other EU institutions
Stop talking about Lisbon and get to work
The worst option would be to let another period of internal wrangling serve as an alibi for European inaction where it matters, writes Philip Stephens
Sarkozy: reckless and sometimes also right
The French president appears torn between his reflexes to intervene and his instinct to let people shape their destiny, writes John Thornhill
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