Later he suggests regularly inviting US representatives to sessions of the Council of Ministers and points to the failure of Kyoto as a case in point. What I found most troubling while reading his column is that he nowhere acknowledges that Europe and the US could ever have fundamentally different interests. Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
Re Migeru, I was probably more wary of Fischer until a year ago than most of you, but my current opinion was based on this op-ed alone: it shows he didn't learnt anything and got lost ideologically on the American lecture circuit. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Sadly the vast majority of the European political elites can't envision a Europe that's not defined by the transatlantic relationship. Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.