Real obstacles. Nicolas Sarkozy's speech in Tangiers on the Mediterranean Union was most enthralling and was even, at certain moments, moving. The French president indicated that Morocco was the meeting place between Europe and Africa, Christianity and Islam, the centre of a great Arab-Hispanic civilisation, a country whose people had never persecuted anyone, had only ever fought to be free and which had protected the Jews when they had been hunted down and exterminated. According to Mr...