Mediterranean Union is launched

// added July 14, 2008 // 5 comments //
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a new international body with 43 member nations aimed at ending conflict in the Middle East.

The Union for the Mediterranean will tackle issues such as regional unrest, immigration to pollution.

Comprising 27 EU members with states from north Africa, the Balkans, Israel and the Arab world, the union's membership will include 756m people from Western Europe to the Jordanian desert.

But critics have dismissed the new union as lacking substance, and diplomats say there are continuing disagreements over key issues such as how to address the Middle East peace process and a possible role for the Arab League.

The only leader boycotting the Paris meeting was Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, who has described the union as a new form of colonialism.
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5 comments // Mediterranean Union is launched

  • Stradius
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      Stradius  

    • Hooray Europe! Hooray France! Show us the way to tackle global problems with diplomacy!! :-) It's now the age of "getting together". Even if some people don't want to and some people worry that it's a waste of time. The more attempts the better the chances that something will work.

    • 1 year ago
  • Beta_Boy
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      Beta_Boy  

    • All new unions lack substance at first. I quite like the idea of bringing new countries together and giving them a history of diplomacy. I think Gadafi is looking at this the wrong way. These new countries have enough clout that they need not be dictated to by the governments of Western Europe.

    • 1 year ago
  • SilenceNoMore
  • stone246
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      stone246  

    • this is an interesting concept though don't know how far it will go but at least they are talking peace and unity instead of sanctions and war.

    • 1 year ago
  • huntre
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      huntre  

    • One look at the map and I can see Gaddafi's point.
      Is Sarkozy trying to take steps into a larger arena of leadership with this, so called, union? Hard to say at this juncture.

    • 1 year ago
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