Die Mittelmeerunion – Ein neuer französischer Motor für die europäische Mittelmeer-Politik?

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Germany and Central and Eastern European Countries: Laggards or Veto-Players?

“…She reminded Sarkozy, and hence all other EU governments, that the use of EU funding for the pursuit of exclusively national interests could not be justified (Schmid, 2008). Fully aware that these arguments would raise concern among the governments of other EU member states, she hardly missed an occasion to make her message heard, with the aim of bringing potentially diverse perceptions in line with one another and thereby signalling to other potential veto-players that Germany was determined to oppose any proposal based on exclusion of some EU member states.…”

The Union for the Mediterranean in the policy of France and Germany

“…After all, he did try to embed his plan in the existing Mediterranean Partnership and the ENP. He was disappointed that important French ideas of how to activate the Mediterranean and its relations with the European Union were received coldly and sceptically instead of enjoying the expected approval (Schmid, 2008).…”