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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9497

8 September 2007
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/mediterranean
Michel Rocard refuses to collaborate with Nicolas Sarkozy in setting up a “Mediterranean Union”

Paris, 07/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Michel Rocard, French Socialist MEP, announced on Friday morning, 7 September, when speaking on radio France Inter, that he declined the mission President Nicolas Sarkozy wished to confer upon him to build the “Mediterranean Union”. Sarkozy had hoped Rocard would agree to be chairman of a “Mediterranean Commission”. This “Union” of Mediterranean rim countries, around the European, southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, was proposed...

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