By Dominique Moisi Financial Times Is “economic patriotism” – the expression coined by Dominique de Villepin, France’s prime minister, and epitomised by the proposed merger of Gaz de France and Suez – a sign of hard-headed pragmatism gaining ground in Europe? Or is it an example of French schizophrenia towards globalisation, if not the European […]
By Patrick Chamorel Hoover Digest While Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin continue to stumble, Nicolas Sarkozy has bided his time. Now he’s ready to make his move. But is France ready for him?…more
Iran’s Gift: New Unity In the West By Jim Hoagland The Washington Post The fog of negotiation is not for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He prefers to confront the United States and Europe directly over Iran’s nuclear and political ambitions. The ex-mayor of Tehran thus sets history’s tectonic plates moving faster toward a new era […]
By Craig Whitlock The Washington Post WARSAW — Poland’s new president, Lech Kaczynski, said his country might keep troops in Iraq until sometime in 2007 if necessary, in an extension of its military commitment there, even as other nations are withdrawing or making plans to do so…more
By Gerard Baker The Times WHEN European and US policymakers, led by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, gathered in Munich over the weekend to consider the state of the transatlantic alliance, the themes that have divided them in recent years were prominent again…more