Des sources cit\u00e9es par le journal moscovite Kommersant<\/em> rapportent plusieurs prolongements dans la question des antimissiles US en Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abRussia should not interfere in negotiations on the installation of a ballistic missile defense system in Eastern Europe, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stated. Any sovereign state of the European Union has the right to establish security arrangements with others, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBarroso also expressed disappointment at Russia’s plans to place a moratorium on implementation of the Conventional Forces Treaty. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that moratorium during his annual address to the Federal Assembly on April 26. He said the moratorium would remain in force until all NATO members ratified the treaty and implemented it. The Russian president expressed confidence that both houses of the Russian Federal Assembly would support the moratorium.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPutin stated that NATO was using the treaty to place bases on Russia’s border, and the United States was going to place a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moreover, new NATO members, such as the Baltic countries and Slovakia, were not joining the treaty, is spite of preliminary agreements made with NATO. Russia, meanwhile, has continued to fulfill the obligations of the treaty, in spite of the situation in Chechnya.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbLater, at a meeting with Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Putin said that the threat from the placement of U.S. antiballistic defense elements in Europe is equivalent to the threat from the placement of Pershing missiles.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tOn peut faire principalement deux remarques sur ces diverses appr\u00e9ciations. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t La premi\u00e8re concerne \u00e9videmment la prise de position de Barroso dans cette affaire. Elle est conforme \u00e0 ce qu’on sait du personnage et du niveau de l’actuelle Commission. D’une part, la Commission s’interdit en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d’\u00e9mettre des jugements strat\u00e9giques, jugeant que le militaire et le strat\u00e9gique ne sont pas de ses comp\u00e9tences (ce qui lui \u00e9vite de trop souvent entendre le jugement d’impuissance pour qualifier son comportement). Elle d\u00e9roge \u00e0 cette r\u00e8gle g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pour appuyer deux Etats de l’UE qui s’engagent dans le projet US d\u00e9stabilisant, et pour attaquer une fois de plus la Russie. D’autre part, la Commission cherche toujours \u00e0 gagner des pouvoirs aux d\u00e9pens de la souverainet\u00e9 des Etats-membres mais, soudain, dans cette occurrence, le principe de la souverainet\u00e9 acquiert une quasi-sacralit\u00e9. Le r\u00e9dsultat est que Barroso et sa Commission, sans doute sans s’en apercevoir vraiment, parviennent \u00e0 avoir une position plus pro-US et anti-russe que l’OTAN. Il faut saluer la performance, ils nous \u00e9tonneront toujours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n