{"id":149,"date":"2008-04-15T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-09-13T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:01:52","slug":"with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2008\/04\/15\/with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"With \u2018Old Europe\u2019 Allies Like These\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nato_summit_romania_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nato_summit_romania_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nato_summit_romania_2008.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nato_summit_romania_2008-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>The recent NATO Summit in Romania showed why there is trouble ahead for transatlantic relations\u2014no matter who occupies the White House next January.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>With \u2018Old Europe\u2019 Allies Like These\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Soeren Kern | Strategic Studies Group | April 15, 2008<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Europeans have been hyperventilating over their self-perceived \u201cvictories\u201d vis-\u00e0-vis the United States at the recent NATO Summit in Romania from April 2-4. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,545078,00.html\">France and Germany Thwart Bush\u2019s Plans<\/a>,\u201d ran a triumphant headline in the Hamburg-based Der Spiegel. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,544648,00.html\">Europe Waits Out the Bush Administration<\/a>,\u201d read another. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/apr\/07\/tisdallbriefing.russia\">Only One Lame Duck Here<\/a>\u201d said the London-based Guardian in commentary that waxes giddy about Russia\u2019s growing stranglehold over Europe. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/internacional\/Carlos\/Taibo\/OTAN\/debe\/desaparecer\/elpepuint\/20080407elpepuint_16\/Tes\">NATO Should Disappear<\/a>\u201d said the Madrid-based El Pais.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But behind the spin, the 26-member NATO Summit (arguably the most important such gathering since the end of the Cold War) exposed a security-dependent Europe that is divided, weak and fickle above all else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Consider Spain, for example, where newly re-elected Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was far less concerned about Spanish (or European) security than about getting some one-on-one face-time with US President George W Bush. Zapatero, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,901040927-699350,00.html\">self-proclaimed feminist pacifist<\/a> who is arguably the most anti-American leader in Europe today, is (unsurprisingly) one of the only such Europeans never to have been invited to the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But in the Byzantine logic of Spanish politics, that elusive visit to the Oval Office (to see an American president who is broadly despised by most Spaniards) also happens to be the main litmus test by which Spaniards will judge whether Zapatero gets promoted from provincial politician to international \u201cstatesman\u201d during his second term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thus Zapatero\u2019s permanent non-relationship with the most powerful leader in the free world has become something of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/11\/12\/wspan12.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/11\/12\/ixworld.html\">media obsession in Spain<\/a>, with the issue generating many miles of ink in national newspapers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Imagine, then, the internecine recriminations when Zapatero\u2019s much-vaunted \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/actualidad.terra.es\/nacional\/articulo\/fvega_zapatero_bush_2375452.htm\">mini-summit<\/a>\u201d with Bush lasted all of about three seconds\u2026just enough for Bush to shout three words (which brings to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.es\/20080406\/nacional-nacional\/relacion-dieciocho-palabras_200804060315.html\">a grand total of 18 words<\/a> the two leaders have exchanged during the last four years) that appeared in newspaper headlines all across Spain: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/videos.abc.es\/informaciondecontenido.php?con=4594\">Hola, Hola, Felicidades<\/a>.\u201d (\u201cHello, Hello, Congratulations\u201d, referring to Zapatero\u2019s re-election.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Zapatero then took to the podium and tried to persuade bemused members of the Alliance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavanguardia.es\/lv24h\/20080403\/53452190020.html\">merge NATO with the United Nations<\/a>! And, just for good measure, the prime minister also announced that Spain would not be sending more troops to Afghanistan, with or without the UN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Not surprising, then, that Zapatero was captured in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/imagen\/790830\">politically devastating Summit photograph<\/a> sitting in isolation\u2026while the rest of the leaders present were huddled around Bush at the other end of the conference hall. The picture, which made the front page of every newspaper in Spain, opened up yet another pained debate about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselsjournal.com\/node\/2931\">Spain\u2019s declining influence<\/a> in the world since Zapatero took office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/zapatero-otan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6111\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/zapatero-otan.jpg\" alt=\"zapatero-otan\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/zapatero-otan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/zapatero-otan-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then take Greece. It refused to allow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osservatoriobalcani.org\/article\/articleview\/9365\/1\/216\/\">Macedonia to join NATO<\/a> because Greece wants its northern neighbor to change its name, which Greeks say jeopardizes their claim as the only the rightful descendants of Alexander the Great (356\u2013323 BC) and Aristotle (384\u2013322 BC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The controversy erupted in 1991, when the former Yugoslav republic declared its independence from Belgrade and took the name <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Macedonia\">Republic of Macedonia<\/a>. Although more than 120 countries have now recognized the Republic of Macedonia under its current name, Greece says the name proves that Macedonia harbors implicit territorial claims on the northern Greek region also known as Macedonia. Never mind that by joining NATO, Macedonia would provide Greece with much-needed stability on its northern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then consider Germany and France, arguably the greatest free-riding beneficiaries of American security since World War II. At the Bucharest Summit, they (together with Spain) refused to extend NATO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/issues\/map\/index.html\">Membership Action Plans<\/a> to Georgia and Ukraine because they were afraid of provoking Russia, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Europe\/bg2083.cfm\">Europe\u2019s growing dependence on Russian energy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Germany<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, for example, already imports 35 percent of its oil and 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia, more than any country in Western Europe. The problem of energy dependency is being exacerbated by leftwing energy policies that are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/791597.stm\">phasing out the country\u2019s production of nuclear energy<\/a> in favor of increased reliance on fossil fuels. Indeed, Germany\u2019s (and Europe\u2019s) dependence on Russian energy imports may reach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/9535\/\">70 percent by 2020<\/a>, which (if current German behavior is any gauge) will give Russia a de facto veto over decisions on German (and European) security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Europeans, in any case, know that keeping Georgia and Ukraine out of NATO will not appease Russia for very long. Indeed, the Germans appear to be looking for a face-saving way out of Europe\u2019s long-term geo-strategic dilemma. On March 4, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier gave a speech titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/diplo\/en\/Infoservice\/Presse\/Rede\/2008\/080304-BM-Ostpolitik.html\">Towards a European Ostpolitik<\/a>\u201d in which he suggests that Europe\u2019s future lies in staking out a position mid-way between the United States and Russia. Say what?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Well, if Germany insists on turning Europe into a province of Russia\u2026then debates over the future of NATO will be moot anyhow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In France, meanwhile, the government on April 8 faced down a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/04\/08\/europe\/EU-GEN-France-Afghanistan-NATO.php\">vote of no confidence<\/a>, as leftists accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of a dangerous \u201cAtlanticist drift\u201d that risked turning France into Bush\u2019s poodle. Socialist leader Fran\u00e7ois Hollande said Sarkozy decided to send 700 French troops to Afghanistan \u201cunder pressure from the Americans\u201d and that France risked losing its independence on the world stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With allies like these, expect trouble ahead for transatlantic relations, regardless of who occupies the White House next January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/\/\">Soeren Kern<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">is Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gees.org\/\">Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Published by PJ Media on April 14, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent NATO Summit in Romania showed why there is trouble ahead for transatlantic relations\u2014no matter who occupies the White House next January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,117,7,119,10],"tags":[20,9,177,173,175],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-european-defense-policy","category-geopolitics","category-aerospace-and-defense","category-transatlantic-relations","tag-anti-americanism","tag-europe","tag-spain","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>With \u2018Old Europe\u2019 Allies Like These\u2026 - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2008\/04\/15\/with-\u2018old-europe\u2019-allies-like-these\u2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With \u2018Old Europe\u2019 Allies Like These\u2026 - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The recent NATO Summit in Romania showed why there is trouble ahead for transatlantic relations\u2014no matter who occupies the White House next January.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2008\/04\/15\/with-\u2018old-europe\u2019-allies-like-these\u2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-04-15T16:51:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-13T22:01:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/nato_summit_romania_2008.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Soeren Kern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Soeren Kern\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/15\\\/with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/15\\\/with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Soeren Kern\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36\"},\"headline\":\"With \u2018Old Europe\u2019 Allies Like These\u2026\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-04-15T16:51:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-13T22:01:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/15\\\/with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":947,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/15\\\/with-%e2%80%98old-europe%e2%80%99-allies-like-these%e2%80%a6\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/nato_summit_romania_2008.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anti-Americanism\",\"Europe\",\"Spain\",\"Transatlantic Relations\",\"United States\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Europe\",\"European Defense\",\"Geopolitics\",\"Transatlantic Defense &amp; 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