Word: elmar
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...Danish official. And European leaders couldn't help but stick it to the uppity Yanks. "We don't run to Washington telling them they ought to make Colombia the 51st state so they could curb the drug trade, even though that would be in our interest," says Elmar Brok, a German Christian Democrat who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament. "The U.S. has to understand that the E.U. is a quasi-state entity, with standards and rules and, soon, a constitution. We're not some alliance or free trade area." Washington has been arguing for years that...