Schulz resuscitates Sarkozy’s ‘Union for the Mediterranean’

European Parliament President Martin Schulz announced 4 April 2013 that he will revive the ‘Union for the Mediterranean’, a now moribund initiative first launched in 2008 by the then French President Nicolas Sarkozy, during a parliamentary summit on 7 April in Marseille.

The fact that Schulz, a German politician, is re-launching a French initiative Berlin initially opposed may appear paradoxical.
But with Sarkozy having left the political scene, Schulz, who nourishes ambitions to become the next Commission President following the 2014 European elections, apparently seized the occasion to position himself above national politics.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Union for the Mediterranean http://www.europeansources.info/record/union-for-the-mediterranean/

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