The Mediterranean Union concerns all of Europe

"The meeting held on Thursday, December 20th, in Rome, between the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the head of the Italian government Romano Prodi has allowed the Mediterranean Union project to be reintegrated into the EU", the Spanish daily is glad to observe. "The French president's desire to launch this initiative on the outskirts of the EU, limiting it to a project concerning the coastal countries of the Mediterranean, posed a problem. ... Germany in particular felt brushed aside by the French president, something that incited the German chancellor Angela Merkel to voice her disagreement in public. The German arguments are the same as those defended by the Italian and Spanish governments: what goes on in the Mediterranean concerns all Europeans and Mediterranean policy needs to be coherent with the rest of European activity."

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