The depressing part comes with Nikolas Sarkozy's success at "moving market competition from the list of the EU’s main goals." Henry is undoubtedly less concerned about this than I am, but even he concludes:
I suspect that the main beneficiaries of these changes will be powerful semi-monopolies and national champions with good political connections, which can by no means necessarily be expected to act in the public interest.
posted by Dan on 06.28.07 at 10:03 PM
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From what I understand, the clause that Sarkozy got struck from the treaty is well-established in peripheral EU regulations. So it was more a PR concession to French domestic opinion than a change in policy.
"This week, the cover of the Polish weekly Wprost depicts Chancellor Angela Merkel breast-feeding the Kaczynski twins. But it could have been worse, the editor-in-chief points out. At least they used a 21-year-old model."
