Posted on 12/04/2009 2:50:50 AM PST by markomalley
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, sends his regrets — but he is unable to meet Gordon Brown in Downing Street today as planned because of a longstanding engagement. With the President of Benin.
Mr Sarkozy promised Mr Brown that he would visit London to calm fears that the City is about to be saddled with French-style regulation. But amid his gloating over the appointment of a Frenchmen to the key Brussels job overseeing financial reforms, his visit today has been abandoned.
A spokesman for Mr Sarkozy cited “longstanding” engagements, including a meeting with President Dr Thomas Yayi Boni of Benin, West Africa, as the reason for his inability to meet the Prime Minister.
Whitehall sources insisted that it had been officials in London, not Paris, who cancelled the visit.
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Sacre bleu!
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