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May 30, 2005
The French ‘no’ and the European foreign politics on the Us
French voted ‘no’ on Europe’s constitutional treaty.
55% of French voters said theirs no on a kind of Europe made by bureaucracy and economic power. This is the opinion of Barbara Spinelli, a columnist for La Stampa, Gian Giacomo Migone, the president of Foreign’s Commission of the Italian Senate (1994-2001) in an article published by Unità, and Andre Glucksmann, a philosopher who has written today on Corriere della Sera. It’s very interesting that all the interventions analyse the vote in relation to America and Bush’s foreign politics.
After a long reconnaissance about the Europe’s origin, the French’s role, and a possible future of the Union, Spinelli concludes her column saying that the European duty is not to answer the America’s challenge of democracy’s exportation, but to create a Union strong enough to have policies that follow the interests of a great world Power.
‘France, if Bush supports no’, that’s the title of Migone’s article published by the Unità. He remembers that France was the only bulwark against the war in Iraq, in opposition to the Usa and to the other major European countries. He also said that it is “physiological that the US is againts the rise of a United Europe able to be a political agent who can equilibrate and, in case, contrast Washington’s foreign politics”.
Also Andre Glucksmann’s article draws attention to the Union's foreign politics, and to the French’s role, and he asserts that the main target of French diplomacy is to create a “European power” able to face the American super power: “But this isn’t the Europeans' UE dream, it is the French’s Europe dream”.
Posted May 30, 2005 09:03 AM
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