Belgium says US sees Europe integration as threat

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3536176&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

BERLIN - The United States, for decades after World War 2 an ardent supporter of European integration, increasingly sees closer unity on the continent as a threat, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said on Tuesday.

Verhofstadt wrote in a column in Germany's Handelsblatt business daily that the US saw the euro as a competitor to the dollar and European Union moves for more defence cooperation as a threat to US global dominance.

He said the EU, taking in 10 new members next year, wanted a bigger voice on the world stage and to be treated as an equal partner, not a competitor, by the US.

"The international emancipation of the EU is as unavoidable as it is desirable," Verhofstadt wrote. The Belgian premier was due to deliver a speech in Berlin on the EU later on Tuesday.

"I regret that the United States now all too often sees integration as orientated against its own interests," he said
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Can't say as I blame them.

[Maple]

1. The US is just going to have to

get used to the idea there are 6 billion other people on the planet.

[54anickel]

2. Of Course EU is a threat to US /PNAC Superpower status! n/t

[sablefish]

3. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3536176&thesection=n

I am a newbie trying to figure out how to tell you I think that the U.S. does not like the idea of any resistance to it's quest for a N.W.O. based on U.S. based multinational corporate interests.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. You can just cut and paste the link into your text box without anything

else, like this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3536176&thesection=n

[newyawker99]

10. Hi sablefish!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bpilgrim]

4. should read the PNAC neoCONs see the integration of europe as a threat

most of us could give a shit... pass the remote :bounce:

peace

[Dirk39]

6. When I see, just how the attempt for a social agenda in Europe...

failed, and how there seem to be intentions from Frankland and Deutchreich to dominate Europe...
Please don't let me be misunderstood, but one PNAC, one corporate-driven superpower pseudo-democrazy is enough for me, I don't need a second one.
At least here in Germany, our government is 100% in the hands of corporations and banks, there is no government anymore... And I guess, France doesn't look much better. The more united our corporations become, the more they cross borders, the more Europe becomes a fortress, the more brutal it is closing its borders.
Fuck Germany, Fuck France, Fuck the USA.
The socialdemocratic and socialist parties and unions in Europe simply failed to unite and to work for a strategy all over Europe in the 80ies, when it all became so clear, to fight back the global corporations and to establish a social agenda, even before the unification started. Now we are all blackmailed against one another.
These stupid moderate social democrats: they made WW1 possible, voting for the war-credits, they made WW2 possible, voting for Hindenburg, they made the first illegal war after WW2 possible, fighting against the only country in former Yuguslavia, that didn't welcome Hitler.

And they are no alternative any more, and they never were. At least not for me.
Messed up in Germany,
Dirk

[AP]

7. Clinton was a big fan of EU. Bush isn't. In fact, I think anxiety about

EU is about 60% of the motivation for Iraq invasion and subsequent chaos.

[Gman]

8. Someone in Belgium took the time to read about PNAC

[Dirk39]

9. And the difference between PNAC and PNEC...

besides being more like a PNFranceGermanC is?

Just curious to know...
Hello from Germany,
Dirk