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Summary of the round table held on 7 November 2007 by the French Foundation for Political Innovation on 'The EU's energy requirements: the importance of the Black Sea region'. Participants included Andreas Schockenhoff (Bundestag member and Vice-President of the CDU-CSU group), Agnija Rasa (member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for Energy) and Alexandre Vulic (Deputy Director of the Office of East European Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Adapted from the source document.

As he comes to the end of his first term, French President Nicolas Sarkozy chose Politique Internationale to review his foreign policy over the last five years and reaffirm his guiding principles. From Tbilisi to Tripoli, from Lebanon to the Ivory Coast, France has stepped up everywhere that human rights were being trampled, wherever freedom was threatened. French diplomacy took a firm stance with Iran and Syria. And it extended a helping hand to the Arab peoples who were trying to shed dictators. But Nicolas Sarkozy has above all been active in the European sphere in recent months. Faced with a serious economic crisis, he was able to convince his partners to-at last-set up the economic government needed by Europe, and bolster the integration of countries in the euro zone. In the final analysis, he concludes, over the last five years France has remained faithful to its values, by refusing to be a victim of History, but rather to help write it... Adapted from the source document.