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...have two leaders who have many things in common, including their temperaments," says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. He believes Sarkozy, Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could create a new triumvirate of power at Europe's core. All three, he says, "are Atlanticist, economically liberal - more or less - and take a pragmatic rather than ideological approach to the European Union and its institutions...
...sense that, with open markets and flexibility and free trade, you give people the chance to benefit from a global economy." Sarkozy comes from a French tradition that is far warier of the outside world and more inclined to state intervention. In his victory speech, he urged European leaders "not to remain deaf to the anger of the people who view the European Union not as a protection, but as the Trojan horse for all the threats that are contained in the transformations of the world...
...their success in combatting unemployment. That sort of attitude drew flak, with opponents painting him as an American-style neoconservative, but that didn't stop him winning. "He's as economically liberal as it's possible to be for a French politician," says Grant of the Centre for European Reform...
...What makes this fixation all the more striking is that Brown is, in so many other ways, such a formidable figure. His more statesmanlike qualities were richly evident last week when he arrived at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, sprang out of his limousine and led his retinue into a conference where he argued, with urgency and conviction, for extending the chance of education to every child in the world. Brown's face is already familiar in Brussels. As Tony Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has represented the U.K. in international financial negotiations for a decade...
...identities, Britain and France in recent years have been on totally different trajectories--London up, Paris down. Personal relations between the two leaders of the past decade, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair, have been prickly. Opposing positions on everything from the war in Iraq to European farm subsidies have at times degenerated into public shouting matches...