Re: Foreign policy is background music, although it adds to the public image of any top politician to be active in 'international affairs'.
I'm afraid that Europe is not merely background Muzak.... Any European issue for almost any European country is... well, a European issue! Foreign policy, especially for France and Germany, doesn't include European geopolitics: the enlargement of Europe to Eastern countries (or Turkey), the euro and its monitoring by the ECB, along with the red tape relentlessly issued by "Brussels" (ie the Eurocracy HQ) cannot be put on an equal footing with Zimbabwe, the Congolese snafu, the gyrations of the Indonesian rupee, and the WTO congresses! |
