Brussels 28/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - The initiator of the Union for the Mediterranean, UfM, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, called on Sunday 27 February for a re-design of the UfM, set up in July 2008 but unable to get properly underway due in part to the problems in the Middle East and in part to low visibility and vagueness of UfM institutions, objectives and strategy, not to mention lack of resources.
Sarkozy said the time had come to re-design the UfM in the light of the great events...