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Kissinger did little to conceal his anger, complaining to both reporters and Congress about the EEC'S perfidy. Then Nixon wrote to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who is currently spokesman for the EEC countries. Employing blunter language than is normally used by allies, Nixon complained that the U.S. had a right to expect closer consultation with the EEC on relations with the Arabs. Kissinger surely had a hand in drafting the letter...
...rule in Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There were no effective governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt, increasingly distant and indecisive, has seen his party's popularity plummet to its lowest level since 1957. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has scraped into office with an avowed distaste for his country's membership in the European Economic Community...
Internal Politics. With Edward Heath's fall in Britain, the major decisions on Europe's future should logically now be made by Pompidou and Brandt. Yet both men are largely preoccupied with internal politics. France's President, closeted with a few intimate advisers, spends much of his time brooding about the growing appeal of the left. He fears that a faltering French economy would lead, after election year 1976, to a popular-front government headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand, with Communist ministers in key posts. He fears above all that West Germany may become a political "neutral...
...Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party suffered a stunning electoral setback in its traditional stronghold of Hamburg last week, is even more gloomy about the future. While West Germany sits on the fattest bankroll in Europe, its leaders are haunted by an old fear: that if Germans begin to push, steer and wrestle the Common Market into the image they want, then the hatreds and stereotypes of the Nazi past will burst back in full venom...
WEST GERMANY has long feared the predominant market power of the multinationals. Even before the Yom Kippur War, the Bonn government planned to create a state-owned oil company to compete with the majors. After fighting began in the Middle East, gasoline prices in West Germany zoomed. But Willy Brandt's administration did not take countervailing action for fear that the big oil firms would sell their products elsewhere. The Economics Ministry did, however, investigate the way that the multinationals were doing business...