EU relations and foreign affairs in general are playing hardly any role in the US midterm elections on Tuesday (2 November), Mr Nowina-Konopka, the European Parliament's top man in Washington has said. But any deficit in EU-US relations will have an associated "cost," he warned.
According to Transatlantic Trends, a survey carried out each year on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr Obama is still far more popular in Europe than back home. But not so his policies - fewer than half of Europeans responded positively when asked about his handling of Afghanistan and Iran. Unlike Europeans, Americans have similar or higher approval rates for many of his specific decisions.
"There is a disappointment in Europe that on on many issues he didn't make a u-turn on policies from the Bush era, as the EU would have liked", said Ulrike Guerot from the European Council on Foreign Relations, a London-based think-tank.
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