Blair’s last mission must be to keep America close.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab In the three years since Baghdad fell, Britain has once more felt the pull of the European magnet. Even if the French eat cheese, the British do not see them as surrender monkeys. President Chirac was a useful ally in Bosnia and his insistence on a United Nations mandate for the Iraq war was not necessarily dishonourable. Many British diplomats agreed that it was a legal requirement. Blair has in fact strengthened Britain’s military links with France while Nato, the alliance that links Europe and America, has withered.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Under Blair and Brown, Britain has been substantially Europeanised. For example, as an explicit policy, levels of public spending on health have been driven towards the average European Union level. Britain has legislated to reduce working hours and extend maternity and paternity pay in line with the European model. The government gave the European convention on human rights legal standing in Britain. On the same day last week French and British workers went on strike, linked by a defining European view that the state should protect them against the big bad world.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb The prime minister is right to be concerned about America and Europe moving apart. None of the world’s great problems can be ameliorated without America’s engagement. Even today, Europe’s security rests on an American guarantee.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 2 avril 2006 \u00e0 13H04<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Voil\u00e0 deux articles britanniques sur les relations USA-UK qui nous ont paru int\u00e9ressants, autant par leur simultan\u00e9it\u00e9 de parution que par leur compl\u00e9mentarit\u00e9 de contenu. Ils viennent d’horizons diff\u00e9rents, l’un dans The Observer, l’autre dans The Sunday Times de ce jour. D’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et quelle que soit l’approche choisie, ils t\u00e9moignent de la 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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,857,3872,5241,3345,3306,3344],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-irak","tag-observer","tag-portillo","tag-relationships","tag-rice","tag-special"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","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=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}