{"id":66468,"date":"2005-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/01\/le-dernier-geant-de-service-et-sa-spin-equipe-a-lassaut-de-leurope\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"le-dernier-geant-de-service-et-sa-spin-equipe-a-lassaut-de-leurope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/01\/le-dernier-geant-de-service-et-sa-spin-equipe-a-lassaut-de-leurope\/","title":{"rendered":"Le dernier g\u00e9ant de service et sa \u201cspin<\/em>-\u00e9quipe\u201d \u00e0 l’assaut de l’Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’increvable Tony Blair est de nouveau optimiste. Apr\u00e8s l’Irak (et l’Am\u00e9rique in the pocket<\/em>, cela va sans dire), c’est au tour de l’Europe; un grand dessein chasse l’autre, un succ\u00e8s succ\u00e9dera au pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Ainsi raisonne la spin<\/em>-\u00e9quipe de Tony Blair. (Spin<\/em> d\u00e9signant l’activit\u00e9 de communication pouss\u00e9e \u00e0 l’extr\u00eame qu’on lui conna\u00eet, jusqu’au virtualisme.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe tr\u00e8s honorable Jonathan Freedland a recueilli les confidences int\u00e9ress\u00e9es de la spin<\/em>-\u00e9quipe de Blair, qu’il rapporte dans The Guardian de ce jour<\/a>, sous le titre de \u00ab Last man standing, According to the optimists, events in France have left a Blair-shaped hole right at the heart of Europe<\/em> \u00bb. L’id\u00e9e est simple : Chirac est affaibli, Schr\u00f6der est KO, tout le monde dit que l’Europe hyper-lib\u00e9rale est irr\u00e9sistible, pourquoi cela ne serait-il pas le cas? C’est-\u00e0-dire : pourquoi cette Europe mythique ne s’imposerait-elle pas avec Blair \u00e0 sa t\u00eate ou tout comme? Ainsi, d’un c\u00f4t\u00e9 tiendrait-il (on ne vous dit pas par o\u00f9) l’Am\u00e9rique, de l’autre l’Europe. Le grand \u00e9cart transatlantique transform\u00e9 en triomphe pan-occidental.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa spin<\/em>-\u00e9quipe est persuad\u00e9e de son affaire. Il faut avouer que Freedland semble ne l’\u00eatre pas vraiment, de son c\u00f4t\u00e9, et chaque fois qu’il \u00e9crit le mot optimiste pour d\u00e9signer la spin<\/em>-\u00e9quipe, on sent qu’il r\u00eave d’ajouter \u00e0 contre-pied la formule classique selon laquelle un pessimiste est un optimiste bien inform\u00e9. Sa conclusion est de cette eau.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab It will have to be handled gently, they concede. This can’t be Blair’s crusade to kick European ass’. But he will have allies. By 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy could be president of France and Angela Merkel chancellor of Germany, both of whom are Blair-compatible.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It sounds good, but it may be a tad too wishful. If Blair is not planning a series of concrete EU moves, then he will not get the tangible gains he clearly believes European voters want. Even if his advocacy does work, changing attitudes takes time; to replace French anger at the EU with gratitude will take more than a year or two. Above all, it is precisely the Atlanticist, Blairite kind of economics that French voters rejected on Sunday. To suggest an increased dose will win them over is perverse.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It’s also fair to ask whether Blair really has the strength to do for Europe what he did to the Labour party to turn round a doomed brand and make voters love it again. Maybe Blair could have done that once but now?<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 1er juin 2005 \u00e0 21H00<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’increvable Tony Blair est de nouveau optimiste. Apr\u00e8s l’Irak (et l’Am\u00e9rique in the pocket, cela va sans dire), c’est au tour de l’Europe; un grand dessein chasse l’autre, un succ\u00e8s succ\u00e9dera au pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Ainsi raisonne la spin-\u00e9quipe de Tony Blair. (Spin d\u00e9signant l’activit\u00e9 de communication pouss\u00e9e \u00e0 l’extr\u00eame qu’on lui conna\u00eet, jusqu’au virtualisme.) Le tr\u00e8s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705],"class_list":["post-66468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}