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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Voters demand change of course
The results of the Spanish local and regional elections should be interpreted first and foremost as a protest against the ruling Socialists, comments the liberal daily La Stampa: "Spain (like Italy before it) has used the ballot to send the message that the time has come to change course. What's unclear now is what the new course should be. ... This is all hardly surprising. Like all European politicians who were in power when the economic crisis exploded, Zapatero has increasingly lost his shine and popularity with the people. ... But even if the socialist era is evidently drawing to a close this doesn't leave the way clear for the conservative People's Party. Not every socialist loss works to the PP's advantage."
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Return to Nato as a media stunt
According to the liberal daily La Stampa France's return to Nato is primarily a media stunt: "Membership in a military structure without doubt has a certain symbolic value. … But the younger generation lays little store by such membership because since the collapse of the Soviet Union it no longer really knows what Nato is and what exactly it's supposed to achieve. But if this historic turning point changes so little … why is it so important for Sarkozy? There are two possible interpretations. One is the pragmatic version, that France's return will give it greater influence in decision-making and put the country in a commanding position previously and unofficially agreed on with the US. The other is psychological: Unlike [his predecessor Charles] de Gaulle, who dominated the media with his great immovable presence, Nicolas Sarkozy seeks to captivate its attention by constantly remaining in movement. Nato offers him … a welcome opportunity to do this."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Domestic Policy, » France
Innocuous America
In the Italian daily's leading article Boris Biancheri, former Italian ambassador to Great Britain and the US, comments on the US president's tour of Europe, which is provoking much less protest than it once would have. "From the 1970s until not so long ago, the visit of a US president would unfailingly prompt hundreds of thousands of left-wing extremists to take to the streets and demonstrate against the enemy. The President of the United States symbolised all that the left-wing extremists despised: the worst brand of capitalism, the absolute power of money, military might and the subjugation of the world's poor." Biancheri attributes the lack of protest to the diminishing importance of a president nearing the end of his time in power and the current position of the US: "America has lost the supremacy it wielded since the last world war, and in doing so has also lost its diabolic face."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Germany, » Italy, » North America
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