Sarkozy, Brown seen clashing on Europe's future - by Paul Taylor
Gordon Brown's anointment as British prime minister on Wednesday means the major European Union powers at last have a complete set of new leaders and the prospect of a new treaty to overhaul its rickety structures. But in the corridors of Brussels the talk is of a likely clash between Brown and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the direction of Europe that could be as bitter as the 2003 bust-up between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac over the Iraq war.
They are poles apart on free-market competition versus state intervention, trade protectionism versus globalisation and further enlargement versus drawing final borders for the Union,' a senior EU official said.Sarkozy favours stronger political integration while Brown is described by a British official as 'a European minimalist'.
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