Europe’s fading anti-Americans

Now here’s a good article. A great accounting not only of the shifting perception of the EU with regards to the United States, but also the change of leadership and the rebuffing of the Franco-German axis that has long dominated EU politics:

In his first interviews since becoming the agreed candidate to run the EU Commission, Portugal’s Barroso has been crystal clear in his rejection of this French ‘counterweight’ theory, even when Paris dresses it up as simply an inevitable process of an emerging multi-polar world in which American dominance will be eroded by the coming new great powers of China and India.

‘It is stupid to see Europe as a counterweight,’ Barroso insists. ‘In some European countries, there is the idea we’ll be independent if we are a counterweight. This is silly. It is a counterpart, not a counterweight.’

‘What is strategically intelligent in building an identity against the United States?’ Barroso asks. Or responsible.’

Jose Manuel Barroso hails from Portugal, and is as pro-American as they come. Now if only we could get the EU to recognize their Christian heritage in their Constitution. . .