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Last year France rejected the EU constitution in a referendum (Photo: EUobserver)

EU suffering from 'general fatigue', says France

France's Europe minister has given a strongly pessimistic view of the state of the European Union suggesting it is suffering from "general fatigue."

Speaking at the annual gathering of French ambassadors on Tuesday (29 August), Catherine Colonna said "the functioning of the union – and more generally the state of the union – appears worrying to me."

"It is not that there is a crisis, that is not the case, the European Union is rather suffering from a sort of illness of apathy, fro...

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