The Mediterranean Union: Sarkozy's 'Grand Design'
Contemporary Review › Band 289 Nr. 1687, Dezember 2007
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It is interesting to note in what has been described as his 'truly divisive personality' more than a trace element of his ancestry, being defined also as the 'Half-Hungarian prince of the Gaullists', and now indeed a Prince in name, as the President of the French Republic is also, ex-officio, Co-Prince of the Principality of Andorra, a title dating back to the time of Henri IV, King of Navarre and King of France. The call for the Mediterranean Union tackles both the question of Turkish membership, and addresses the question of a world political and economic balance, taking in the vital questions of energy and that of human resources, well described as the 'coal and steel' of the Mediterranean Union proposals, just as the actual coal and steel were the foundation of the Treaty of Paris in 1951.
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The Mediterranean Union: Sarkozy's 'Grand Design'
WE are all of us informed by our backgrounds and influenced by our upbringing. Of no-one is this more true than Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France. Erstwhile first generation immigrant, only one quarter French, even this salient factor about him is questioned. According to some he was born in Hungary and admitted such in a previous visit. His convoluted ancestral history contributes to an overall psyche which is at the same time predisposed to explore ideas of a greater European Union and cautious about the inclusion of certain elements which may not be conducive to its cohesion.
His recent visit to Hungary, the homeland of his father, and previous visits he has made there tell us something of the ambivalent way he approaches his own background, and of his early re...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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