1.   The French proposal emphasized the need for a fully democratic economic government centred on the existing Council of Ministers to control a future European central bank.

2.   A French proposal to open up a land corridor to insure supplies to the besieged capital of Sarajevo, was discussed but no decision was made, Millon said.

3.   A second French proposal is to make the Sarajevo airport more secure so relief flights of food and medicine can be resumed.

4.   But it recently balked at a French proposal for prompt elections, fearing that extremists would gain.

5.   But the letter sidestepped some key issues, including a French proposal that the European Union appoint a high-profile foreign policy representative.

6.   But there is also German interest in the French proposal, and Russia likes it, too.

7.   Diplomats said that the British and Americans had rejected a French proposal to send a delegation to Iraq to discuss the impasse.

8.   Foreign ministers from France, Britain and other European Union countries gathered here to discuss the French initiative Monday picked the French proposals full of holes, participants said.

9.   He also said that German Finance Minister Theo Waigel had supported a French proposal to have a council for some political coordination of fiscal policy.

10.   He would not comment on the details of the French proposal, but said it would not involve U.S. ground forces.