US and Britain closing ranks

In his speech before the British parliament on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama called on the world to take concerted action in global politics. The UK and the US in particular will soon be presenting a more united front, comments the conservative daily ABC: "Europe's strategic interest in the Arab Spring is immense. Once North Africa's economy begins to prosper and it is no longer at the service of the ruling families and their loyal supporters, the number of desperate refugees flooding into Europe will dwindle. But the EU is once more divided and Germany rejects the intervention in Libya. A semi-isolated Germany reduces Europe's strategy to an oxymoron. This in turn has freed Cameron of the old British dilemma: Should the UK strengthen its ties with Europe or its ties with the US? With the EU absent without permission the answer is obvious."

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