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Friday, February 07, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:25 AM:
Here come your French news headlines:Le Monde: "Gulf: Deployment of American Forces." And all of a sudden, M. Villepin and the French objectors have lost their top-headline status. At least at France's newspaper of record.
Le Figaro: "Air Lib: The Causes of Failure." Note that Libé was leading with this last night.
Libé: "Bush: The Game's Up." Incidentally, Libé also has "The letter that has ended by undermining Europe," about the letter(s) from folks in the EU or future EU backing the US and by extension twitting the French and Germans. The letter came even as meetings were underway on how to form a "European" foreign policy; none of the signatories mentioned that the letter was coming, so that France and Germany were caught flat-footed. It's ominous for Europe because it reveals the division between those who want a bigger, better European Economic Union and those who want a superstate. It's particularly vexing for the Franco-German sphere, since counting signatures on finds that France and Germany have the dominant position in today's EU of 15, but will be outvoted when new members to the east join a few years down the road.
Considering that the EU was first created as a way to check the periodic muscle flexing of France and Germany and their tendency to take their conflicts Europe-wide, knocking these troublemaking Goliaths down to size by marginalizing them seems to me to be a perfect, if surprising, development.
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