Time for Europe to believe in itself
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1354988,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Friday November 19, 2004
The Guardian
George Bush's re-election has provoked a flurry of European
soul-searching about the transatlantic relationship and the EU's role
in the world. What the US president's father called the "vision thing"
is always challenging for politicians with short-term agendas dictated
by electoral cycles.
Geopolitical architecture was the subject of yesterday's Guildhall
speech by the French president, Jacques Chirac. "A world teetering
between hope and chaos ... needs a strong Europe in a reforged
transatlantic partnership," Mr Chirac said. It was necessary to
recognise "the new reality of a multipolar and interdependent world".
Simon Tisdall
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