Canadian Press: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet with the leaders of nine eastern European countries to try to get an ambitious EU climate deal that would slash carbon emissions by 2020. Sarkozy is to hold talks Saturday with the prime ministers of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic. The former communist states oppose the bloc’s current plan to cut emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 and implement a cap-and-trade program that …