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Sarkozy snubs Chinese pressure
Strasbourg - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday rejected Chinese pressure not to meet Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. ''It's not up to China to set my agenda and my meetings,'' he told members of the European Parliament, without confirming whether he would meet the Dalai Lama. (Snip) Chinese Ambassador Kong Quan warned of ''serious consequences'' to Sino-French relations if Sarkozy met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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Nicolas Sarkozy turns screw on Irish over EU treaty
Brussels - The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will use a Paris summit next weekend to increase pressure on Ireland’s prime minister to 'find a way' out of the impasse created by his country’s rejection of the Lisbon treaty, aimed at re-organising the European Union. Brian Cowen, the Irish leader, may want to keep a low profile at a weekend of French festivities starting on July 13 when he will again face the ire of EU leaders over Ireland’s no vote on the treaty...
['find a way out', translation: nullify the will of the people. The uber-government that is the EU is becoming scarier all the time. Will Europeans wake up to it in time?]
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