#  Close alliance with EU Commission and Barroso
# EU commissioner Neelie Smit Kroes for post of
#  NATO appointment Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
# Recent visit of Russian President Putin

these as positive?... Barroso is the worst Commission President on record, Neelie is one of those Commissioners who never should have been appointed, Scheffer heads an organisation beyond its time with too much Atlanticism, and Putin is in Checnya like Bush in Iraq.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}