17/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - Spain is now one of France's “privileged strategic partners”, just as Germany is, in helping to take forward European integration, President Jacques Chirac announced after the 19th Hispano-French Summit which took place in Gerona on 16 November. “An enlarging Europe can only operate effectively if centripetal forces are also strengthened, and, at the heart of these forces, which ensure the proper functioning of Europe, are Germany, France, Spain and...