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"The EU should stop looking at its Southern periphery as the chimerical 'Mediterranean'" (Photo: EUobserver)

How the Union for the Mediterranean will work

Ever since Nicolas Sarkozy tried to bulldoze his plans for a Mediterranean Union into the European debate, the new scheme seems to have made the headlines mostly for the amount of bashing it has received. Yet, if the initiative has a shot at working, it is for reasons that are both the same and completely the opposite of those initially dreamed up by the French.

Sarkozy had envisioned something that would do to the Mediterranean what Monnet and Schuman did to Europe in the 1950s: a bold...

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"The EU should stop looking at its Southern periphery as the chimerical 'Mediterranean'" (Photo: EUobserver)

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