Will the reform treaty help the EU?

"The French head of state is casting himself in the role of 'trouble shooter', as he did at the last EU summit, and trying to break down the institutional blockade which has gone on for years in the EU," Stefan Brändle writes on Nicolas Sarkozy's attempts to mediate between Lech Kaczynski and the EU. "French diplomacy could be tempted to adopt a halfway position between London - which like Warsaw has refused to sign the fundamental and civil rights charter - and Berlin. Paris is fond of the idea of maintaining the German-French axis, but has also recently increased its efforts to collect points in Eastern Europe and Poland."

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