A Europe of Blocs?
Mark Mardell, Europe editor of the BBC | May 2, 2008
The idea of a Baltic-to-the-Black-Sea Union is a little noticed result of the last European Council meeting. ++ Since the French president proposed a Mediterranean Union for EU and non-EU countries around that sea, the Polish premier minister agued that in this case the East-European states should get the chance to act as a block that includes Georgia and Ukraine. ++ Although some countries already argue within the European Union as a regional block, further groupings of the EU could undermine its solidarity.
