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Old 07-21-2008
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Re: Obama & Europe

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Originally Posted by Shanon View Post
that is exactly the point. your chancellor is also more america-friendly than the previous government, isn't she?
Well, she is but it's not so much the person... the conservative CDU/CSU Party is openly known to be a supporter of strong transatlantic ties...
But since the current US Administration is soooo far "out of the mainstream" the "new" German government only changed the sound in German-US relations... since eventhough the opposite side of the political spectrum gained a strong role in government, there are still few similarities with the current US foreign policy.

For example: Eventhough the Green Party is no longer part of the German Government, Fighting Climate Change and reducing CO2 emissions is a bigger objective in German domestic and foreign policy than ever before.
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