By Bal(t)imoron, 10 months and 3 days ago

What Is Up With Brussels?

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Europeans may not always like it, but America still matters most for their security. As Kosovo edges towards independence, NATO ponders further expansion and Russia rips Europe's threadbare energy policy to rags, every debate involves America. And the mood is gloomy.

I'm surprised The Economist can actually write something like "Europeans".

Largely silent is the EU, whose members appear more concerned over institutional reform and emissions targets than geopolitical issues. That worries the Americans. They seem to have settled a row with Poland over a planned missile-defence base. But not much else is going right. Ron Asmus, a former American diplomat now at the German Marshall Fund, a think-tank, frets publicly about a «rollback» of the West's influence in eastern Europe. He is not the only one.

Sales must be suffering on the continent?

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