aujourd’hui<\/a> \u00e9galement, les p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties de cet extraordinaire \u00e9pisode du sommet de Bruxelles, tandis que les Polonais et leurs humeurs terribles occupaient le devant de la sc\u00e8ne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abGordon Brown dramatically intervened in a crucial European summit yesterday to overrule the prime minister in his last week in office and demand that Britain challenge a French move to dilute Europe’s commitment to a free market.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNicolas Sarkozy, the French president, triggered a row at the Brussels meeting by watering down a pledge to maintain free and undistorted competition in the operation of the single European market.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMr Brown, who was not attending the summit, intervened with Tony Blair after the prime minister assented to the French demand. He phoned Mr Blair three times in Brussels as he digested the potential impact of the Sarkozy coup. A chastened prime minister was forced to go back to the negotiating table to demand a new protocol to guarantee that the EU’s powers to regulate cartels and anti-trust issues were not impaired.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbFollowing Mr Brown’s intervention, the head of the European commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, was asked to clarify the problem with the French.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn a day of high drama in Brussels, Downing Street yesterday morning maintained that it had been studying the Sarkozy move for days and had no problems with the shift. But Mr Brown signalled his displeasure around lunchtime, insisting that the European commission talk to the French president and agree on the protocol.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere’s been an issue of competition. France objected to one part…on free and undistorted competition, Mr Blair said last night. That’s now been resolved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe said that the legal basis of the free market was unaffected. Are we changing the basis on which the EU works? The answer is we’re not. Let’s not be absurd about this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe British business lobby, the CBI, voiced alarm about the implications of the French success. William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, described the lost objective of the EU as the union’s jewel in the crown. A bit that many of us would have preferred to see in, is now out, Mr Blair conceded.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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