Sarkozy Confuses French Alsace Region With Germany in Speech
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy stumbled in a speech, saying he was “in Germany” while delivering an address in Alsace, the border region that France won from the Nazis in World War II.
Speaking to a farmers group in the Alsatian town of Truchtersheim, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the German border, the French president said he couldn’t accept unfair agricultural competition from Germany.