Europhilia on hold?

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Fri Mar 14 18:08:00 PST 2003


On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ian Murray wrote:


> [Dennis R., comments?]
>
> Dark days for Europe
>
> The Iraq crisis has set back efforts to build a common EU foreign and
> security policy by years, writes Andrew Osborn

Much of the reporting on continental Europe in the UK and US is stupefyingly wrong, or poisoned by Cold War toxins. This is a fine example of a piece which is really describing 1991, instead of 2003.


> On the one hand Britain, Spain and a host of east European countries who
> will be EU member states themselves next year have aligned themselves with
> the United States over Iraq.

Polls say and demos prove the Spanish people are dead set against the petro-slaughter. So are the Eastern Europeans, by and large. So are the Northern Europeans. So are the southern Europeans. So are the western Europeans. So are most sentient life-forms on this planet.

-- DRR



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