Not yet a post-American Europe
I’m in Brussels where the only news is Obama’s cancellation of a trip to Madrid to join an annual EU-US confab. The FT’s Gideon Rachman explains the anxiety caused by the decision: ‘There is no doubt that the Spanish government, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU (You thought it had been abolished? Fooled you!), will treat this as a bitter blow. The Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Zapatero was royally snubbed by George W. Bush and so it was really important to him to underline that he has a great relationship with the sainted Obama. (…) The Spanish are not the only Europeans feeling snubbed by Obama.