Nicolas Sarkozy's European plans

Dominique Moïsi, currently teaching at the College of Europe in Natolin near Warsaw, comments: "The election of Sarkozy is no bad thing for Europe. The problems of the European Union won't be solved merely because France has a new president. But Sarkozy's vision of a simplified constitutional contract to replace the one that the French and Dutch rejected in 2005 is more realistic than Royal's call for a new referendum. A few years ago, Sarkozy hinted at the possibility that a Club of Six should take over leadership of Europe. But Poland has cut itself off from from the circle of politically relevant countries, and the leaders of Italy and Spain made no secret of their support for Royal. In Britain, the ardent Euro-sceptic Gordon Brown is about to replace Tony Blair. So the French-German alliance will once again take the lead, even if only by default."

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