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In the view of many experts, the U.S. today has the worst relations with the Continent since World War II. To J. Robert Schaetzel, former Ambassador to the EEC, the situation has become nothing less than a "dialogue of the deaf"-which probably means a lot of shouting in 1973...
An old American complaint about Europe recently renewed is that it is unrealistic. Princeton Professor Edward Morse, writing in Foreign Affairs, argues that, despite the almost universal agreement in Europe that any reduction in the present level of U.S. troops on the Continent would leave everyone worse off, Europe has...
Affection. Perhaps the largest plus in American-European relations lies in the genuine affection-albeit now tinged with a degree of envy-that Americans feel for the Continent. Jet travel has enabled many Americans to renew and appreciate more deeply their heritage abroad. "But that antiquated, slightly patronizing American attitude...
FIRST-TIME visitors to Europe are usually impressed by something that its citizens now take for granted-the pervasive signs of economic growth and prosperity. London, Paris, Milan and Frankfurt are cacophonous with construction and clogged with cars. An international network of autostradas, Autobahnen and autoroutes links the Continent'...
Europe, of course, is not yet paradise. The Continent still lags well behind the U.S. by the standard measures of wellbeing, but is catching up (see charts). Income is still distributed inequitably, with many poor people within the richer member countries of the Common Market and widespread chronic poverty in...