'Club Med' and Sarkozy

Sarkozy and Merkel unveiled a new scheme for a mediterranean equivilant to the EU, designed to boost ties with mediterranean countries. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2008/0314/1205104771720.html

Unfortunately, the EU already has such a scheme: the Barcelona Process. The main difference, as I see it, is the exclusion of non-Med countries (that's you and me) and the bigger role of non-EU med countries.

Methinks this will overshadow the Barcelona Process, which would dilute EU influence in the area. Not neccessarily a bad thing, if it wasn't for the fact that France will be the key country in this. Turkey doesn't want a part, as they see it as a poor man's EU.

what's germany got to do with the med?

lostexpectation wrote:

what's germany got to do with the med?

Perhaps their interest has more to do with Turkey.

lostexpectation wrote:

what's germany got to do with the med?

That's the weird thing. Germany seems to oppose the new scheme, as it would dilute their influence in the area via the Barcelona Process. Why Merkel unveiled it with Sarkozy is the question.

riadach wrote:

lostexpectation wrote:

what's germany got to do with the med?

Perhaps their interest has more to do with Turkey.

Turkey isn't part of the new scheme.

905 wrote:

riadach wrote:

lostexpectation wrote:

what's germany got to do with the med?

Perhaps their interest has more to do with Turkey.

Turkey isn't part of the new scheme.

It may have been the original aim though.

When france was elected I said Sarkozy would be good for france and bad for everybody else. I also said his would be the most damaging claws in my beloved EU.

More are more this seems to be the case.

Doesn't he have local elections or something coming up? Please God it will put him back in his box.

cookiemonster wrote:

When france was elected I said Sarkozy would be good for france and bad for everybody else. I also said his would be the most damaging claws in my beloved EU.

More are more this seems to be the case.

Funny, the opposite seems true of Merkel. Loved abroad, but barely keeping it together at home. It's like ying and yang with those two.

905 wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

When france was elected I said Sarkozy would be good for france and bad for everybody else. I also said his would be the most damaging claws in my beloved EU.

More are more this seems to be the case.

Funny, the opposite seems true of Merkel. Loved abroad, but barely keeping it together at home. It's like ying and yang with those two.

They should come together. Reform the carolingian holy roman empire. Forget all that fussing and feuding that happened after Louis the Pious. The world needs a hre. Get lotharingia to rejoin too and Northern Lombary.

I was think that combined, they could really be the making of the EU. And of all the French leaders, Sarkozy looks to be the most likely to go setting up holy empires. Would come naturally to Merkel, of course. And they have a common enemy in the from of the Other: Turkey, playing the Moor.

the first round was last week and sarkozy party lost alot of ground

lostexpectation wrote:

what's germany got to do with the med?

Happy memories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Korps

I was idly browsing the English Wikipedia today when I came across an article about the Famine.

Is the following paragraph true?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hunger#Ottoman_humanitarian_aid_during_the_Great_Famine

If true, perhaps it would make some opponents of Turkish entry to the EU reconsider

i think there is a statue in Drogheda. France, c'est toi?

cactus flower wrote:

i think there is a statue in Drogheda. France, c'est toi?

Mais oui. Vive le Québec libre!