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A good excuse for a party

WHAT DO BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Arab League secretary general Amr Mousa and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have in common?

Don't wait for a punchline, the three men have nothing in common, except perhaps the talent of playing songs of self-praise louder than noisy alarms warning of dangerous icebergs ahead. Or at least that's how it looked at the Paris summit - sponsored by President Nicholas Sarkozy last month - with the aim of creating a Union among Mediterranean nations (UPM).

Barely 10 days into his nation's presidency of the European Union (EU), the French leader ruffled some feathers by launching the summit, with great pomp and ceremony. It was attended by 43 heads of ...

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