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...first tasks will be to establish his credentials in foreign policy, especially the Iraq war and the strains within the European Union. Last week he capped his country's about-face on Iraq by hosting the leaders of the E.U.'s antiwar faction, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at a mini-summit in Madrid. Zapatero called those countries "the heart of Europe" and inverted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's famous jibe by saying "old Europe is like new." A week earlier, during a visit to Tunisia, he called on all other coalition countries...
...Iraq as a litmus test for antiterrorist resolve. But both their governments reacted with notable reserve when Zapatero called the U.S. occupation "a disaster" and "a huge mistake," then yanked his troops, just as France and Germany were seeking to lower the temperature of the transatlantic dispute. The German opposition, which is now polling stronger than Schröder's weakened Social Democrats, is withering in its criticism. "Zapatero made a grave mistake when he immediately announced he would pull Spain's troops out of Iraq, sending a single message to Osama bin Laden: Terror pays," says Friedbert...
...creation of a 15,000-strong E.U. security force that could be rapidly deployed. But Continental governments still seem more willing to commit troops to peacekeeping efforts than to engage in reinvigorating NATO itself. "Germany's interest in NATO has diminished," says Christian Hacke, an expert on German foreign relations at the University of Bonn. "Europe is concentrating on itself." But neither the Europeans nor the Americans are ready to give up on NATO. De Hoop Scheffer says "the U.S. is engaged with and committed to the alliance." And however inadvertently, the E.U. itself provided the best argument for NATO...
...Since Hitler is a monstrous presence in the national memory, realistic portrayals on the big screen were considered bad taste - and sympathetic portrayals were unthinkable. Other countries made big-budget World War II epics with Hollywood stars such as Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins playing Hitler, but the last German-language film about Hitler and his subordinates, The Last Act, was produced in 1955 - and its Hitler was a raving lunatic. Now a new German film about Hitler's final days in the bunker, The Downfall, is stirring prodigious controversy, because its Hitler is not only a monster but also...
MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Foul Play Suspected German officials bemused by the disappearance of the visiting Sri Lankan national handball team were left red-faced when it emerged that the island doesn't have one. The 23-strong squad persuaded the German embassy in Colombo to issue them with visas for a month-long tour, but vanished from their lodgings in the southern town of Wittislingen soon after their arrival. They did play in one local tournament - and lost all their matches...