Brussels, 11/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 10 January, the views of France and Spain on European immigration policy are demonstrably closer, according to a “high level declaration” signed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero following the 20th Franco-Spanish summit meeting in Paris.
Relations between the two leaders have not always been good. When Sarkozy was interior minister he openly rebuked Zapatero for granting 700,000...