{"id":65629,"date":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/01\/tony-blair-et-ses-illusions-de-vieil-europeen\/"},"modified":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"tony-blair-et-ses-illusions-de-vieil-europeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/06\/01\/tony-blair-et-ses-illusions-de-vieil-europeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair et ses illusions de vieil Europ\u00e9en<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Blair et ses illusions de vieil Europ\u00e9en<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t1er juin 2003 Apr\u00e8s tout, Tony Blair fait peut-\u00eatre partie de la vieille Europe jet\u00e9e \u00e0 la poubelle par Rumsfeld, plus que de la new Europe<\/em> vant\u00e9e par le secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense. Il a des illusions de vieil Europ\u00e9en et, \u00e9galement, de Britannique ent\u00eat\u00e9, ce qui n’est nullement contradictoire. Les illusions de Tony Blair ont \u00e9t\u00e9 dissip\u00e9es en 24 heures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn en juge au travers de la couverture que fit le Telegraph<\/em> de Londres, sans doute pas m\u00e9content de la chose, des visites de Blair et de GW en Pologne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Samedi 31 mai, le quotidien londonien<\/a> pr\u00e9sente la visite du Premier ministre britannique en Pologne avec ce titre : \u00ab Blair acts as peacemaker over US rift with Europe<\/em> \u00bb. En d’autres mots et principalement : r\u00e9concilier, sous son \u00e9gide prestigieuse de brillant second des USA, la vieille Europe (Chirac-Schr\u00f6der) et les USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Dimanche 1er juin, le m\u00eame journal<\/a> nous annonce le r\u00e9sultat des courses, GW ayant suivi son fid\u00e8le second en Pologne : \u00ab Bush challenges Old Europe to back America.<\/em> \u00bb Cela ressemble plus \u00e0 une r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 Blair qu’\u00e0 une exhortation avec espoir d’\u00eatre entendu. Du discours de Bush \u00e0 Krakow qualifi\u00e9 de dur, le Telegraph<\/em> fait ce commentaire : \u00ab His tough address will complicate Tony Blair’s desire to play the role of an Atlantic bridge between the US and continental Europe following his good-humoured meeting with President Jacques Chirac of France yesterday.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Effectivement, les commentaires et confidences du c\u00f4t\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain qui ont accompagn\u00e9 la visite de Bush en Pologne n’ont \u00e9t\u00e9 en rien marqu\u00e9s par une volont\u00e9 de r\u00e9conciliation avec la vieille Europe, mais plut\u00f4t par une volont\u00e9 de faire s’aligner la vieille Europe sur les consignes am\u00e9ricaines. Le Telegraph<\/em> d\u00e9veloppe ses appr\u00e9ciations dans ce sens et, en quelques mots, l’essentiel de ces quatre jours de rencontres diplomatiques est dit. :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab In Krakow, by contrast, there was an atmosphere of celebration among White House aides. They had chosen to visit Poland first because of her military contribution to the Iraq conflict and the warm welcome Mr Bush could expect in the heart of what, to Mr Chirac’s chagrin, Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon chief, termed New Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb American officials remain furious that Mr Chirac tried to strongarm Poland and other former communist countries by stating that they had missed an opportunity to keep silent and damaged their hopes of joining the European Union by backing the Bush administration over Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Poland is a good citizen of Europe and Poland is a close friend of America. And there is no conflict between the two, Mr Bush said. By helping to spread freedom in places such as Iraq, terrorism would be stopped from flourishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Privately, White House aides have said that for all his talk about wanting to look forward, Mr Bush is in no mood to forgive European countries that he believes were motivated by vulgar anti-Americanism in their stance against toppling Saddam.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Bush has recently pointed out to White House visitors the very chair in which Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der sat and lied by saying he would not seek to secure re-election by stoking anti-American sentiment. Mr Schr\u00f6der has not been granted a meeting with Mr Bush at the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations, and talks between Mr Chirac, who is hosting the event, and the President have been described by American officials as a courtesy call rather than a bilateral meeting.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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