18/11/2008 00:00
by RAY FLEMING
AMONG the epithets used to describe France's president Nicolas Sarkozy loose cannon and unguided missile are frequently heard. The latter seems particularly appropriate since the latest initiative he has sprung on his surprised EU colleagues is for a standstill on the American proposal to install missile defence systems in the Czech Republic and Poland in deference to Russia's objections to this plan and intention to deploy missiles in Kalingrad, a Russian enclave bordering Poland, in response.
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