Obama breaks with the Bush era

The conservative daily Magyar Nemzet expresses understanding for the US's most recent foreign policy decisions but also sympathises with the general sense of unease in Central Eastern Europe: "Part of Central Eastern Europe is beginning to dislike US President Barack Obama. There is talk of the Central and Eastern Europe being given lower priority or even being betrayed, with agreements being made above its head. … The renowned US security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski is right when he writes that a missile defence shield in Central Eastern Europe would make little sense. For on the one hand the threat that makes a defence shield necessary doesn't exist and on the other the shield would defend countries that have staked no claim for such protection. … By rejecting the missile shield Obama has broken with the ideological foreign policy of the Bush era. The US is now pursuing its true interests. This means that it is focusing more on the Middle East and Asia."

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