11/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a televised speech on 10 February, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, affirmed that with last week's ratification of the Lisbon Treaty (EUROPE 9598), “France is back in Europe”. Sarkozy believed that in this way France had again found “its influence, its ability to get its points of view across, as well as its values and the driving force it always had in the past”. The French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2009 has to be an...