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To: michael97123 who wrote (75636)	2/19/2003 2:17:52 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 281500

Il Foglio, Rome, on the EU's summit on Iraq: There is no doubt that, after Monday's EU meeting in Brussels, Gerhard Shroeder has had to face his opponents, who blamed him for his sudden "about-face", while Jaques Chirac was forced to utter threatening words to Eastern European candidates to the EU. On the other hand, Blair, Jose Maria Aznar and Silvio Berlusconi have smiled anew after the huge peace rallies that took place in London, Madrid and Rome. The summit has established in writing that "the time given to inspectors can't be indefinite" and that Europe recognizes the right to use force "as a last resort" to "effectively hinder the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." The European Union (news - web sites) has done its part. Now the US and Great Britain are preparing the text for a second UN resolution and the diplomatic scene appears to be clearer. If Germany, on a possible day of reckoning, insists with its "ohne mich", without me, and France insists with its veto, their position will be one of legitimate disagreement, but this will not stand as a political-diplomatic alternative and it will certainly not stand as "the" European position.