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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44634)	9/19/2003 4:34:19 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

The Saarbrücker Zeitung proclaimed Franco-German influence to be dwindling. It has never been so limited as it is today, the paper wrote. And it will decrease even more when other members enter the EU-club next year. "If the two want to promote their own interests, then they need strategic allies, and not just the little guys like Belgium and Luxembourg, but political heavy weights." There won’t be any getting around Great Britain. Schröder and Chirac seem to have realized that. When they meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Saturday, they may be able to move past the bitter argument over Iraq, the paper suggested. At any rate the three of them could profit from the talks, and the EU will too, the paper surmised.