EU enlargement 'should not cut us' from our south Mediterranean Partners, says French politician
"The integration in the (European) Union of new members has no reason to cut us from our partners of the south," said, in Tunis Sunday, a former French Prime Minister.
Alain Juppe, Chairman of the "Union pour un Mouvement Populaire) party (UMP) who was addressing a symposium in Tunis, said that the EU market after its extension to 10 new countries, will comprise a total population of 450 million inhabitants and a gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 100 trillion EUROS. This new Union will then have an unprecedented economic weigh, explained Juppe who called for South-South cooperation, "the only means to increase foreign direct investments."
