Europe tries to fill leadership void in crisis
Timothy Heritage, Reuters, 24.06.2010
Quotes
The question has puzzled leaders ranging from Henry Kissinger, said to
have once asked who he should call to reach Europe, to Barack Obama. It
has become all the more pertinent as the European Union tries to fill
what is widely viewed as a leadership vacuum during the euro zone’s
sovereign debt crisis. [...]
The French are also uneasy about the relationship and what they regard
as a “creeping unilateralism” on the Germans’ part, but they have
little choice but to cooperate, diplomats say. "The German-French tandem is not working properly but there is
just no other option," said Janis Emmanouilidis of the European Policy
Centre think tank. [...]
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