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07. New Europe was the neat formula coined by Donald Rumsfeld in the aid of the ...
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07. New Europe was the neat formula coined by Donald Rumsfeld in the aid of the Bush administration’s war effort. The ‘old Europeans’ disliked and derided it, as it suggested that Europe was more divided over the Iraq invasion than it actually was. But they could never deny its grain of truth. There was indeed a split between those who signed up to the Bush crusade for democracy in foreign parts - not least because of their recent history – and those who saw the same campaign as a misuse of military might. But that was then. Now that Poland and Russia are making up, East and Central Europe have lost their appetite for fighting US wars, and the Obama administration is eschewing the whole idea of special relationships, it could be time to lay this irritating concept to rest. Six years after the European Union completed its greatest single expansion, the divisions are neither as sharp nor as resentful as they were. Even as ‘new’ Europe blends with the ‘old’, however, could it be that a new breed of rather different ‘new’ Europeans may be arising in that least likely of places, here in Britain? There are reasons to doubt, but suddenly, too – for us pro-European dinosaurs –to hope. 7) The idea of a ‘new Europe’;
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