PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy of France gathered leaders from 43 countries in Paris to launch a Mediterranean Union (MU) - Leaders have agreed on a batch of modest projects such as cleaning up pollution in the Mediterranean Sea jeudi 7 août 2008, par Christian Scherer Union of the Mediterranean PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy of France gathered leaders from 43 countries in Paris to launch a Mediterranean Union (MU). The new forum brings together the 27 countries of the European Union, and states from North Africa, the Balkans and Arab nations along with Israel. Peace with its associated difficulties in one of the world’s most volatile regions was, according to the French President, “a major initiative (of the MU), and now we have to nurture it and go further. Everyone will have to make an effort, as the Europeans did, to put an end to...
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