Abdullah Abdullah, the runner-up in the presidential election, said the presence of foreign commissioners last year was the only thing that prevented the country falling into "absolute turmoil".
Ms Le Pen said France had "shouted loud and clear" that it wanted to be run "by the French, for the French and with the French" and not by "foreign commissioners" in Brussels.
Without it, the foreign commissioners would not have been able to deprive Mr Karzai of the first-round victory he craved.At the same time Mr Karzai has refused to go along with an American plan to use the parliamentary recess to pass an anti-corruption decree.
And Chris Patten, the European Union's foreign affairs commissioner, has told Washington that Europe would find it difficult to help finance postwar rebuilding without United Nations approval.
On Thursday, the European Union's foreign relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, came to Paris and had a 45-minute one-on-one meeting with Mr. Sarkozy.
A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, Commissioner Roger Goodell said.
Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg, fretting as usual at the way the big boys always grab the big jobs, pushed foreign affairs commissioner Hans Van Den Broek.
"The climate, and atmosphere, was positive and serious and down to business," said Nabil Shaath, foreign relations commissioner of Mr. Abbas's Fatah Party, who is negotiating for the Palestinians.
The freed medical workers were accompanied Tuesday by the two women who reached the final breakthrough: the French first lady, Cécilia Sarkozy, and the European Union's foreign affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
In Brussels, Gunnar Wiegand, a spokesman for the European foreign affairs commissioner, said the proposed loans were not subsidies, but "repayable loans, which are in full compliance with the 1994 World Trade Organization agreement on subsidies".
