BERLIN - FEBRUARY 22: French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) speaks with Netherland Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (R) upon their arrival for a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on February 22, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The one-day meeting is taking place ahead of the G20 summit scheduled for April in London, where the leaders of the G20 nations are to discuss common measures on combating the current global economic slowdown and restructuring the world finance system. Getty Images logo Getty Images 9 months ago

BERLIN - FEBRUARY 22: French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) speaks with Netherland Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (R) upon their arrival for a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on February 22, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The one-day meeting is taking place ahead of the G20 summit scheduled for April in London, where the leaders of the G20 nations are to discuss common measures on combating the current global economic slowdown and restructuring the world finance system.

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  1. PARIS - NOVEMBER 11: In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with French President Nicholas Sarkozy on November 11, 2009 in Paris, France. Netanyahu was invited to visit France by Sarkozy on his return from his trip to America.
  2. PARIS - NOVEMBER 11: In this handout provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with French President Nicholas Sarkozy on November 11, 2009 in Paris, France. Netanyahu was invited to visit France by Sarkozy on his return from his trip to America.
  3. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) tastes a piece of cheese as he visits the National School of Dairy Industries in Poligny, eastern France, October 27, 2009. President Sarkozy said on Tuesday he will seek tougher European regulation in the milk sector from the start of next year as part of a package of measures to help France's struggling farmers.
  4. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) visits the National School of Dairy Industries in Poligny, eastern France, October 27, 2009. President Sarkozy said on Tuesday he will seek tougher European regulation in the milk sector from the start of next year as part of a package of measures to help France's struggling farmers.
  5. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) speaks with France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand (R) before inaugurating a major exhibit of art from Turkey at the Grand Palais in Paris October 9, 2009. Culture Minister Mitterrand is facing calls for his resignation for having written about paying boys for sex in Thailand, revelations that were made in a 2005 autobiography "The Bad Life". Jean-David Levitte (2ndL) is President Sarkozy's diplomatic advisor.
  6. A member of French CFDT trade-union from the world's largest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Hayange, eastern France, writes on a board the 2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy' promises as the workers prepare a symbolic meeting with the president. In 2008, President Sarkozy engaged to come back to the ArcelorMittal nearest Gandrange site, threatened of closing. Plans for a partial shutdown of the Gandrange steel factory were postponed last year after Sarkozy urged owner Lakshmi Mittal to reconsider. Sarkozy, who visits other factories in the eastern region on October 8, 2009, promised to go later in ArcelorMittal sites, according to Secretary of State for Employment Laurent Wauquiez.
  7. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero leaves an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Oct. 30, 2009. The European Union is seeking to maintain a united stand on climate change Friday by giving leeway to poorer member states to pay less into global climate aid fund.
  8. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero leaves an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Oct. 30, 2009. The European Union is seeking to maintain a united stand on climate change Friday by giving leeway to poorer member states to pay less into global climate aid fund.
  9. Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen arrives at the EU council headquarters for the second day of the European Union Leaders Summit in Brussels October 30, 2009.
  10. Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite (R) arrives at the EU council headquarters for the second day of the European Union Leaders Summit in Brussels October 30, 2009.
  11. Hungary's Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai arrives at the EU council headquarters for the second day of the European Union Leaders Summit in Brussels October 30, 2009.
  12. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann arrives at the EU council headquarters for the second day of the European Union Leaders Summit in Brussels October 30, 2009.
  13. Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) signs the guest book as Bert Koenders, the Minister for Development Corporation, looks on after meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 21, 2009.
  14. Netherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende (L) shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 21, 2009.
  15. Netrherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende lays a wreath at the Polish Monument in Driel, the Netherlands September 19, 2009. The event was held in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two.
  16. Netrherlands' Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende lays a wreath at the Polish Monument in Driel, the Netherlands September 19, 2009. The event was held in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden during World War Two.

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