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Dupont, Stéphane
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Mediterranean Union in the limelight
EU Council president Nicolas Sarkozy will present plans for the Mediterranean Union at a special summit in Paris on Sunday. The business newspaper Les Echos analyses German-French relations in the light of the project. "This will be a moment of pride for Sarkozy. A consecration. The realisation of a long-time goal. On Sunday he will place the Mediterranean Union on the baptismal font in Paris. ... But first impressions are misleading. Because the real victor at this huge party will not be Sarkozy, but Angela Merkel. In her usual silent, inconspicuous way. ... The German chancellor has prevailed in trimming the wings of the Mediterranean Union. ... Angela Merkel did not want a Mediterranean Union that devides the 27. And she has held sway. Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to capitulate to save their marriage. ... After the disputes and the unfaithfulness, the couple once more comes across as united and harmonious. ... But further infidelity will not be tolerated. Angela Merkel has forgiven. But she does not want the Union to be disrupted once more. Nicolas Sarkozy is under observation."
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The ailments of Eastern Europe
"The Visegrad Four are European partners who are more accomodating than their parties would have us believe", remarks Stephane Dupont, journalist for the economics daily. "While the political class tears itself to pieces, business goes on as usual. And it prospers. Most of the new governments of Central Europe were elected on the promise of reducing the social rift, to go back on the liberal politics that have been led these past few years. But words are far from acts. ... Far from fleeing the political maelstrom, large international groups continue to flow into Central Europe ... Whether or not there is political a crisis, the new-comers continue to catch up with the old EU in great strides... Political straying should be taken for what it is: the acute symptoms of a fast-growing crisis, the back-lash of sudden emancipation."
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