If you listen to the more excited explanations of what is going on, you may well think you are hearing the outbreak of the second cold war. The Europeans—some of them—are saying that Europe must take another leap towards "ever closer union" in order to oppose America's "attempt at domination in international affairs" (as France's President Jacques Chirac has put it). The Americans—quite a lot of them—reply that Europeans are only too happy to moan about American dominance until the next crisis, at which point they scurry like chickens for the ample protection of the United States.
展开▼
