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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (69693)	4/11/2003 11:11:12 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

The EU doesn't particularly want to be a military power. Some countries in it do want this - mainly the UK, possibly France (but with certain key reservations and restrictions such as independence from NATO, etc) - but others are defiantly neutral and strongly oppose it. I do think the EU would like to rival the US in economic muscle - but not by dragging down the US, nor is wishing for economic boom a zero-sum game...