Might George Bush yet succeed where Europe's leaders have not, in forging a common foreign policy for the European Union? Having settled little of their own business at their Stockholm summit (see next story), over dinner the eu 15 decided to step in where America still hesitates to tread: their president for this half-year, Sweden's prime minister, Goran Persson, together with the Union's two top foreign-policy officials, Javier Solana and Chris Patten, will meet North Korea's Kim Jong Il sometime in May. The aim, said Mr Persson, is "to express support for the [peace] process started by the South Korean president, Kim Dae Jung." The point, said Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Iindh, is that Europeans are getting twitchy at Mr Bush's more "hardline" approach towards North Korea. Europe, she added, "must step in."
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