France and Britain patch up relations by giving each other posts at the new Commission
Sunday, 13 December 2009 | 
European Affairs
Despite Sweden having the Presidency these last 6 months, that was of no importance when the Brits promised away the Commissioner post for the Internal Market to Michel Barnier of France, while Sweden had to give up Jörgen Holmquist, the current Director General, DG Internal Market and Services to a Briton. Jörgen should have remained there for another two years!
In the last few weeks there has been a public squabble whether the world should follow French or Anglo-Saxon rules in the world of finance. The display of amity between President Nicolas Sarkozy and the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, was sealed by a joint press conference in a hall decked out with French and British flags this week in Brussels. The appearance, buttressed by joint Franco-British statements about climate change and banking rules, was designed to draw a line under a rocky couple of weeks which had seen Mr Sarkozy call the British “the big losers” of an EU power struggle over designing new finance rules.
As Angela Merkel said: Charming...
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SvD just discovered it
Finally they write about this scandal in the Swedish morning paper Svenska Dagbladet!