PARIS — President Obama’s decision to skip a United States-European Union summit meeting scheduled for Madrid in May has predictably upset European officials, who suggested Tuesday that the summit meeting itself would now be postponed, possibly to the autumn.
In addition to the palpable sense of insult among European officials, there is a growing concern that Europe is being taken for granted and losing importance in American eyes compared with the rise of a newly truculent China.
via Europe Feels Snubbed by Obama – NYTimes.com.
Golly, don’t you remember that whole Brandenburg Gate affair last year? It was in all the papers. All of them.
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