Nicolas Sarkozy, a hot candidate to become the next French president, has suggested a way out of the current EU's institutional crisis would be through closer integration of the bloc's six biggest states, with others to decide whether to follow suit or not.
Speaking at a UMP party conference on Europe on Saturday (24 September), its leader said the Franco-German alliance should be opened to the other four big EU states, as it could no longer direct the union on its own.
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