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I'm travelling so can't check this, but last night a French diplomat involved in the EU negotiations told me that the reporting of Sarkozy's removal of the competition statement in the treaty has been competely wrong.

I'm travelling so can't check this, but last night a French diplomat involved in the EU negotiations told me that the reporting of Sarkozy's removal of the competition statement in the treaty has been competely wrong.

Far from it being a hidden move by Sarkozy, he said, it had been agreed quite deliberately with Merkel and was very much a joint decision. "Have a look at the draft on which it first appeared" (or rather, I suppose, on which it was first removed), he told me. "It was published by the Germans" - which of course it would be, given they held the presidency. Sent via BlackBerry

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