US Base Revives Cold War Feelings
by Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST - The U.S. missile defense system to be deployed in Eastern Europe is becoming a matter for concern in all of Europe. Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are now worried and demand talks.
The missile defense system, allegedly aimed at protecting the West from missile attacks by "rogue states," would have two components by 2011: a radar in the Czech Republic and an antimissile base in Poland.
Right-wing cabinets in Prague and Warsaw are in favor of hosting the base and are now focusing on which terms to set Washington, whereas members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are divided and still considering its strategic and financial implications.
Major EU countries could end up reviewing their political role. France and other large European Union (EU) member states "had hoped until recently to act as mediators between Iran and the international community, as well as to continue exerting influence in the Middle East," Svetlozar Andreev, political scientist at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid told IPS.
"The basic problem is how to reconcile the interests of large countries like France, Germany, Italy and Spain with those of the United States," Andreev said. >>>>cont
BUDAPEST - The U.S. missile defense system to be deployed in Eastern Europe is becoming a matter for concern in all of Europe. Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are now worried and demand talks.
The missile defense system, allegedly aimed at protecting the West from missile attacks by "rogue states," would have two components by 2011: a radar in the Czech Republic and an antimissile base in Poland.
Right-wing cabinets in Prague and Warsaw are in favor of hosting the base and are now focusing on which terms to set Washington, whereas members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are divided and still considering its strategic and financial implications.
Major EU countries could end up reviewing their political role. France and other large European Union (EU) member states "had hoped until recently to act as mediators between Iran and the international community, as well as to continue exerting influence in the Middle East," Svetlozar Andreev, political scientist at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid told IPS.
"The basic problem is how to reconcile the interests of large countries like France, Germany, Italy and Spain with those of the United States," Andreev said. >>>>cont
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