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Obama-Europa: luna di miele finita?

By H.D.S. Greenway , "The Boston Globe" Europa is pining for what she believes is unrequited love when it comes to the United States. Having fallen head over heels for Barack Obama, Europe is now feeling jilted. In a paper titled "End of a Honeymoon", the German Marshall Fund's Constanze Stelzenmuller recently wrote: "It seemed as though a fairytale had come true" when America elected the president of Europe's dreams. "But in all myths and fairytales, wish fulfillment is, of course, the stuff of tragedy," he wrote. Obama may be "a man of Western values," but he was not formed by the Cold War's East- West divide, and, as he said himself, he is the "first Pacific president. " The press made much of President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the United States, describing it as fencemending, and saying that Obama finally granted the French president the special gesture he craved: a meal for the French first couple in Oba...