The Ugly American

[Johannes Schneider]

By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, August 16, 2001; Page A17
Europeans Object To Bush Approach On Foreign Policy
Poll Finds Dissent on Missile Shield, Kyoto
PARIS, Aug. 15 -- Citizens of Europe's four largest countries largely
disapprove of President Bush's handling of foreign affairs, with huge
majorities believing he knows less about Europe than his predecessors did
and that he slights European interests in making decisions. These are the
results of a new poll taken jointly by the International Herald Tribune and
the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in Washington.
The poll, conducted in association with the New York-based Council on
Foreign Relations, found that Britons, French, Italians and Germans
overwhelmingly opposed Bush's decisions to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
on global warming and to develop a national missile defense system that
might mean unilaterally abrogating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
with Russia.
Full text:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A15765-2001Aug15.html

Result of the poll:
http://www.iht.com/poll/bushpoll.html