Barnier calms City over Sarkozy comment

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Publication Date 01/12/2009
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Michel Barnier, the prospective new EU single market commissioner, on 30 November 2009 sought to soothe nerves in the City of London after Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, claimed a victory for France in its battle to tame Anglo-Saxon capitalism.

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