After several months of tensions around the proposed Union for the Mediterranean, the french president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced to have found a compromise, Monday, March 3, on the sidelines of the opening of Cebit, Salon world of new technology which is being held from 4 to 9 March in Hanover. "We have found the way to this agreement," said Sarkozy at the end of a working dinner with the chancellor.
Paris and Berlin-avoidance fiscaleM. Sarkozy and Merkel discussed tax havens. Berlin wants to support the projects of Paris during its presidency in the second half of 2008. In response to the case of tax evasion in the direction of Liechtenstein, Germany wants to increase the pressure on these states at the European level. "Our position is the same," said Sarkozy. On the eve of a meeting of European finance ministers, Berlin has criticized the banking practices of Austria, Luxembourg and Belgium. Paris also announced its support for the German Secretary of State for Finance Thomas Mirow to succeed in July in French Jean Lemière as President of the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development).
[-] FermerLes two leaders have not released details of the agreement but have announced that they will make a joint proposal at the European Council in Brussels on 13 and 14 March.
The proposed Union for the Mediterranean, including Mr. Sarkozy wants to make a priority of the French presidency of the European Union () 2008 1995 to strengthen ties between the EU and the countries bordering the Mediterranean. "It is a project of all twenty-seven states," said Merkel. "This project excluded person," he said Mr. Sarkozy.
Merkel appears to have been able to impose its views. Berlin saw the French initiative is a risk of division for Europe and refused the creation of a new structure for cooperation. In principle, however, the two countries had agreed to relaunch the European policy in the Mediterranean. "I tried to understand the fear that Angela," said the french president.
COUNTERPART
Thus, the idea of taking reference from the Council of the Baltic Sea States was established in 1992, which includes eleven neighbouring Baltic states including Germany and Russia, seems to have been abandoned. "This is not a cooperative framework that integrates the twenty-seven states," says a source close to the German government. Similarly, the sequence of events to launch the Union for the Mediterranean in Paris in mid-July, could be modified to place greater emphasis on the European aspect.
In the appeal signed by France, Italy and Spain on December 20, 2007, the three countries had announced a meeting of the coastal states only in Paris on July 13, before inviting the heads of state and Government of the European Union to join the summit on the Mediterranean on July 14. A reversal of timing is not excluded.
In return, Berlin would drop ballast on the criteria of CO2 emissions in the automotive industry. Both countries are critical of the directive in Brussels on car pollution and wish soon present a compromise proposal. The German automobile industry, which is characterized by the production of large vehicles, worries about a distortion of competition compared with french and Italian manufacturers, which produce smaller models. For Paris, there is no question putting the burden on small models.
Paris and Berlin-avoidance fiscaleM. Sarkozy and Merkel discussed tax havens. Berlin wants to support the projects of Paris during its presidency in the second half of 2008. In response to the case of tax evasion in the direction of Liechtenstein, Germany wants to increase the pressure on these states at the European level. "Our position is the same," said Sarkozy. On the eve of a meeting of European finance ministers, Berlin has criticized the banking practices of Austria, Luxembourg and Belgium. Paris also announced its support for the German Secretary of State for Finance Thomas Mirow to succeed in July in French Jean Lemière as President of the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development).
[-] FermerLes two leaders have not released details of the agreement but have announced that they will make a joint proposal at the European Council in Brussels on 13 and 14 March.
The proposed Union for the Mediterranean, including Mr. Sarkozy wants to make a priority of the French presidency of the European Union () 2008 1995 to strengthen ties between the EU and the countries bordering the Mediterranean. "It is a project of all twenty-seven states," said Merkel. "This project excluded person," he said Mr. Sarkozy.
Merkel appears to have been able to impose its views. Berlin saw the French initiative is a risk of division for Europe and refused the creation of a new structure for cooperation. In principle, however, the two countries had agreed to relaunch the European policy in the Mediterranean. "I tried to understand the fear that Angela," said the french president.
COUNTERPART
Thus, the idea of taking reference from the Council of the Baltic Sea States was established in 1992, which includes eleven neighbouring Baltic states including Germany and Russia, seems to have been abandoned. "This is not a cooperative framework that integrates the twenty-seven states," says a source close to the German government. Similarly, the sequence of events to launch the Union for the Mediterranean in Paris in mid-July, could be modified to place greater emphasis on the European aspect.
In the appeal signed by France, Italy and Spain on December 20, 2007, the three countries had announced a meeting of the coastal states only in Paris on July 13, before inviting the heads of state and Government of the European Union to join the summit on the Mediterranean on July 14. A reversal of timing is not excluded.
In return, Berlin would drop ballast on the criteria of CO2 emissions in the automotive industry. Both countries are critical of the directive in Brussels on car pollution and wish soon present a compromise proposal. The German automobile industry, which is characterized by the production of large vehicles, worries about a distortion of competition compared with french and Italian manufacturers, which produce smaller models. For Paris, there is no question putting the burden on small models.
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