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"Drift of Europe’s foreign policy
Published: Saturday, 24 June, 2006, 09:35 AM Doha Time
By Adrian Hamilton
ASIDE from the issue of Guantanamo Bay, relations between the European Union and the US have probably never been better. Which says something about European attitudes in the recent Vienna summit between President Bush and EU officials.
Guantanamo is a continuing sore, but it is sore not because EU officials or political leaders have particularly cared about it, but because the European public does. If it had been up to the politicians, Guantanamo, and indeed the rendering of prisoners, would have been quietly ignored by European governments, an embarrassment rather than a scandal. It is to Tony Blair’s eternal discredit, and that of his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, that Britain made such half-hearted objections to Guantanamo, even when it concerned the incarceration of our own citizens and residents."
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