According to Le Monde, beleaguered French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin put himself forward for the post of President of the European Commission.
The French paper states that Mr Raffarin proposed himself as the candidate for the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) in a telephone conversation with the joint-leader of the German opposition party, Angela Merkel in mid-June.
Mr Raffarin's desire for a European post has been confirmed by several sources, says Le Monde. <...
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