High hopes for Merkel and Germany realistic? | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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The view in the liberal media here in the UK is that with Blair/Brown/Cameron fixated on their transatlantic love-in & Chirac fixated on..well whatever it is, there are no otehr leaders in Europe who can take a lead in dealing with pan-european issues. Especially when there is such a confusion in EU foreign policy.

Mainly these are, in themselves, only minor disconnects. But being all over the place they together represent a bigger snafu than they in reality are. whether Merkel will be able to separate the the trees from the forest, let alone do anything about them will be interesting.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 22nd, 2006 at 06:17:56 AM EST

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There is Zapatero and Prodi, both pro-EU and on the rise in "large" member states. The real problem is the French paralysis and there's nothing that can be done about that until 2007. The July-December EU presidency will be the first one that will be able to do anything productive, assuming a genuine pro-EU president takes over in France, not someone that Jerome would describe as "paying lip service to th European ideal".

If you have Spain, France, Italy and Germany, you can probably linp along without the UK and Poland.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 22nd, 2006 at 06:30:20 AM EST
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If you have Spain, France, Italy and Germany, you can probably linp along without the UK and Poland

Here's hoping anyway

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 22nd, 2006 at 07:02:37 AM EST
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High hopes for Merkel and Germany realistic? | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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