My Way News - France launching watered-down Mediterranean Union
AP reports: "President Nicolas Sarkozy's ambitious pet project to join the nations around the Mediterranean Sea in a cooperative union based on shared projects has been so watered down over the past year that critics now deride it as 'Club Med' - suggesting it will be big on blather and low on substance."

Comment: This is an interesting development, not only for the idea of a union of Mediterranean countries (which would closely resemble the map of the ancient Roman Empire), but for the prospect of a brokered peace between Israel and Syria. I bet Hezbollah and Iran must be feeling a bit betrayed about now, let's hope they don't act out.