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...also mean a trade war between the U.S. and Europe to replace the banana-themed skirmish the two regions just settled. U.S. senators Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) - the latter two new chairmen of influential Senate committees - accused EU regulators of protectionism and warned of a possible "chilling effect" on trans-Atlantic relations...
...what are the Europeans doing to bridge the gulf? Last week EU security chief Javier Solana rushed out of a meeting with President Bush to head for Macedonia, indicating how seriously NATO members view the crisis there. But what can they...
...week things looked dire because the NLA occupied a village in the hills around the capital. That created a high level of alarm in Skopje - one Western diplomat said it was as if a knife was pointing at the heart of the city. But as far as what the EU can do to persuade the parties to come to some sort of agreement, they've already threatened to reduce financial aid if there's no agreement by Monday, and that doesn't seem to have helped. Part of the problem here is that the Europeans have insufficient leverage in Macedonia...
...first conservative in the Oval Office since the end of the Cold War, and Europe is not exactly a priority even on the more internationalist side of that equation. That much was underscored, too, in the fact that Bush used some important media time during his EU summit day to trawl for Latino votes back home by ordering the Navy to close down its bombing range of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
...Europe is understandably furious, with Sweden - which currently holds the chair of the European Union - describing Bush's move as "appalling and provocative," and the EU vowing to send a top-level delegation to plead with Bush to reverse his decision. But the President is unlikely to be swayed by Scandinavian invective, or even by Europe's reasoned entreaties to take global warming more seriously, after essentially rejecting the same advice from his environment secretary, Christie Whitman. Bush made clear Thursday that he was willing to work with U.S. allies to address the question of global warming, but would...