Whitehouse hails
ties with Europe.
This column by Michael Abramowitz points out washingtons increasing delight in forging
new ties with the European counterparts.This is more exemplified with the news that President Bush is keen to start videoconferencing with his german counterpart and he is willing to do the same with the other european
leaders also.So this means
relations are improving between Bush and european leaders.French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in washington hoping to strengthen the ties with US.Also Angela Merkel will be shortly in Texas to hold talks with president Bush.It has to be remembered at this point of time that France and
Germany feude with the US over the war in iraq.Bush ahd a chilly relations with both former conterparts of these two countries.With Bush''s two close
friends Tony Blair and Jose Maria Asner of spain out of power Bush needs to forge new alies with France and Germany.Some issues like Iran''s nuclear ambitions,fighting Taliban in Afghanistan,global warming still continue to be thorns in the relations of these two countries with the US.But both leaders are aware of the consequences that Tony Blair had to face for being Presidents poodle.Along with that, the fact that Bush administration is going to expire in 2009 compels the european leaders to wait and watch till the 2009 US presidential elections are over.While Sarkozy hs been outspoken inhis support for Bush,Merkel is more cautious.Differences are there with regard to the presence of german troops in Afghanistan between Govt. and the public in germany.While it''s sure that Bush wants to do some serious business with the Europeans at the diplomatic levels,their efficiency in that is being questioned.
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