Europe's weakness

In an interview with Guillemette Faure, the American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former adviser to Jimmy Carter and a specialist with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), regrets that Europe has not managed to make its voice heard on Lebanon. "It is sad to say, but Europe exists only as a geographic entity, not as a political one. The British prime minister flies off to Washington only to parrot the views of President Bush. Other Europeans are incapable of speaking in a single political voice that might mobilise European influence to secure real cooperation from the United States."

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