How can anybody decline to understand? The tendency subsists, in France, to choose not to take account of developments in the planned Union for the Mediterranean and to resuscitate the initial, unrealistic plan. The Forum de Paris, held at the end of March, is clear evidence of this. The summary published by Fathi B'Chir in our bulletin 9633, which is, very properly, impartial, clearly shows that the “Declaration of Paris” adopted at the occasion is highly instructive.
The banality of...