イギリスの動き（原１）
投稿者： stwmpxqmwts 投稿日時： 2003/07/20 01:33 投稿番号： [158496 / 177456]
最近ＦＴを読んでいて、知らなかったというか、欧州の政治は新しい動きをしているということがわかった。
イギリスの動きも、少し理解が深まった。
原文は、実際には契約がないと見にくいので、ここに再録しておく。
ファイナンシャルタイムス紙
７月１５日
“Europe will not be subservient ”
By Kirsty Hughes
Published: July 15 2003 20:16 | Last Updated: July 15 2003 20:16
Attempts continue in the European Union to paper over the splits provoked by Iraq, to repair transatlantic relations and to reunite the member states around a common strategy. Proposals by France's President Jacques Chirac to define a new strategy around multipolarity - with Europe as a separate pole to the US - have been strongly criticised as an unrealistic, old-fashioned balance of power approach and, for good measure, anti-American. Multilateralism - collective decision-making in international bodies - not multipolarity must be Europe's guiding principle, it is argued.
This is to create a false and misleading dichotomy. Putting to one side the UK decision to participate militarily in the Iraq conflict without a second United Nations resolution, all EU member states would happily sign up to multilateralism. And Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief, put it without controversy at the centre of his new EU security strategy.
However, belief in multilateralism does not and cannot avoid the question of whether the EU and the US agree or disagree on both procedures and substance. For the Europeans, the most important question is whether they agree or disagree with each other on substance. Does the EU speak in multilateral institutions with one voice or 25? It can become a strong, credible foreign policy actor only if it avoids a cacophony of voices. If the EU speaks with one voice, it will become a separate pole in international affairs.
Britain's Tony Blair tries to sidestep the potential independence of future EU foreign policy by talking of partnership with the US. The implication is that a partner is a frien d but a separate pole is hostile. This is a deliberate swipe at France but also an attempt to cover up the UK's subservience to the US throughout the Iraq conflict.
The real question is not whether multipolarity is inherently anti-US but whether the EU is an equal partner to the US or a subservient one. The answer is obvious. Europe's leaders do not want to play the American poodle, like Mr Blair. At their Thessaloniki summit last month, with future members from eastern Europe in attendance, they stressed the importance of transatlantic relations developing on a "equal footing" in all domains.
The EU's new security strategy also makes strategic relationships with Russia, Japan, China, Canada and India a priority. This strategy of global partnerships, focused on goals and values that are not identical to US security strategies, looks exactly like the multipolar world view for which Mr Chirac has been so roundly criticised in Britain and the US.
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イギリスの動きも、少し理解が深まった。
原文は、実際には契約がないと見にくいので、ここに再録しておく。
ファイナンシャルタイムス紙
７月１５日
“Europe will not be subservient ”
By Kirsty Hughes
Published: July 15 2003 20:16 | Last Updated: July 15 2003 20:16
Attempts continue in the European Union to paper over the splits provoked by Iraq, to repair transatlantic relations and to reunite the member states around a common strategy. Proposals by France's President Jacques Chirac to define a new strategy around multipolarity - with Europe as a separate pole to the US - have been strongly criticised as an unrealistic, old-fashioned balance of power approach and, for good measure, anti-American. Multilateralism - collective decision-making in international bodies - not multipolarity must be Europe's guiding principle, it is argued.
This is to create a false and misleading dichotomy. Putting to one side the UK decision to participate militarily in the Iraq conflict without a second United Nations resolution, all EU member states would happily sign up to multilateralism. And Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief, put it without controversy at the centre of his new EU security strategy.
However, belief in multilateralism does not and cannot avoid the question of whether the EU and the US agree or disagree on both procedures and substance. For the Europeans, the most important question is whether they agree or disagree with each other on substance. Does the EU speak in multilateral institutions with one voice or 25? It can become a strong, credible foreign policy actor only if it avoids a cacophony of voices. If the EU speaks with one voice, it will become a separate pole in international affairs.
Britain's Tony Blair tries to sidestep the potential independence of future EU foreign policy by talking of partnership with the US. The implication is that a partner is a frien d but a separate pole is hostile. This is a deliberate swipe at France but also an attempt to cover up the UK's subservience to the US throughout the Iraq conflict.
The real question is not whether multipolarity is inherently anti-US but whether the EU is an equal partner to the US or a subservient one. The answer is obvious. Europe's leaders do not want to play the American poodle, like Mr Blair. At their Thessaloniki summit last month, with future members from eastern Europe in attendance, they stressed the importance of transatlantic relations developing on a "equal footing" in all domains.
The EU's new security strategy also makes strategic relationships with Russia, Japan, China, Canada and India a priority. This strategy of global partnerships, focused on goals and values that are not identical to US security strategies, looks exactly like the multipolar world view for which Mr Chirac has been so roundly criticised in Britain and the US.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562418384&p=1012571727172
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