Everyone wants a piece: Current French leader Nicolas Sarkozy eagerly picked up where his predecessor Chirac left off, playing power broker between the European Union and Qaddafi during negotiations that brought the Bulgarian nurses back home in 2007. Sarkozy took the opportunity to sign further agreements with Libya, including a controversial cooperation in nuclear power—just part of a total of $15 billion in contracts. Qaddafi visited Paris, including the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre museum, just days afterward.