French interior minister says EU enlargement should be suspended

  • 12/15/2022
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Paris, June 27, SPA -- French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy saidMonday that European Union enlargement should be suspendedand France needs to rethink its EU politics. Sarkozy, who is also head of President Jacques Chirac'scenter-right governing UMP party, said France's rejectionof the EU constitution in May showed several changes wereneeded. "We have to rethink and rework our European politics,"he said. The comments came after a meeting of political partyleaders, chaired by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin,on the lessons to be learned from France's "no" to the EUconstitution. The Associated Press quoted Sarkozy as saying that France needed to "clearly ask questions about the borders of Europe" and that "we need to suspend enlargement, at least until the institutions are revamped." --SPA1111 Local Time 0811 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/272846

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