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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
European Union: France Prepares to Set a New Course
June 16, 2008 2056 GMT
Now that Ireland has rejected the European Union's latest attempt at a governing treaty, France will take the lead in redefining the bloc, and it will do so by further loosening the union's internal bonds.

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