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May 29, 2005

A weaker Europe no good news for the US

If the French vote "no" tonight on Europe's constitutional treaty, some in the United States might feel relieved: a weakened Europe will pose no threat to American supremacy in the world. They would be wrong, according to François Heisbourg, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. In a column published by the International Herald Tribune, Heisbourg writes that

a navel-gazing, disengaged Europe is not going to be of much help in a world in which the United States has few other friends of similar economic and political weight.

Posted May 29, 2005 01:26 AM

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