euro|topics - Europe's take on Barack Obama

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Europe's take on Barack Obama

Barack Obama is as good as nominated as the Democratic candidate for the US presidential elections. He could well become the next American president. How does Europe's press view Obama's candidacy?

Delo - Słowenia

The daily does not expect a potential President Barack Obama to execute major changes in transatlantic politics: "After eight years of George W. Bush, who embodied all the negative stereotypes and prejudices regarding the US, everyone wants a new American president. But there will be fewer changes in the US's foreign policy than Europe hopes. ... The new president's top priority will understandably be reconciliation with the world, and above all with Europe. Disagreements between the two are bad for both [sides] from a global perspective. The respect the US once commanded has been replaced by anger, opposition and fear. If a candidate who wants to adhere to Bush's course wins, the transatlantic rift will only grow deeper." (05/06/2008)

Die Zeit - Niemcy

"We Western Europeans wish for nothing more dearly than Barack Obama at the helm of the USA. But he would still be president of a very strong superpower, and that means problems no matter what," writes Josef Joffe, publisher of Die Zeit. "Obama is no saviour. America, Obama writes in [his book] 'The Audacity of Hope', must proceed 'unilaterally' against those 'who are preparing to attack American targets'. This has a Bush-like ring to it - or worse, because Obama would even go after Al-Qaida in Pakistan. ... But Obama's candidacy has two additional negative points. His party plays with the fire of protectionism against goods and people. That is why Asia and Latin America are so sceptical about the Democrats. Then there is Obama's idealism, which provides a pretty projection screen for Europeans, and his lofty human rights policy. ... Obama fits firmly into the Democratic tradition here. From McCain, the dyed-in-the-wool Republican, by contrast, we can expect practical politics, not ideals." (05/06/2008)

Berlingske Tidende - Dania

"As things stand now, McCain is a better man for Europe," the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende writes. "[But] anyone who watches the orator Barack Obama gets the feeling this is a very special political figure, even though he is still an unknown quantity. ... Many possibilities are opening up now for Obama to concentrate on politics and on the causes he wants to commit to if he wins. We can only hope he will move towards the political centre. While President Bill Clinton rejuvenated the Democratic Party by moving it closer to the centre, there are signs that Barack Obama is more conventional. He has a hesitant stance on free global trade, an unclear foreign policy and a traditional policy of redistribution. But Obama could give us a pleasant surprise, for instance by swerving to the right, where the Americans are." (05/06/2008)

ABC - Hiszpania

Barack Obama's presidential candidacy prompts the Spanish daily to reflect on the differences between political cultures in Europea and America: "We always put yesterday before tomorrow and we love to fight the same battles and the same debates a thousand times over without coming to any result. The US, on the other hand [according to Immanuel Kant], is the 'country of the grandchildren'. ... While the [announced] changes in Spain are aimed at more or less preserving the status quo, the changes in the US are real and permanent. ... What a contrast to our country, where the political leaders - whether left-wing or right-wing, democratic or totalitarian, capable or incapable - cling on to their posts until they get thrown out, not because someone better is there to replace them but because of their own mistakes." (05/06/2008)

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