The ties between Europe and the US possess loosened,but there are still enormous global challenges – Russia, China, and the Middle East,climate change – we can only face togetherWhatever happened to the west? Barack Obama just visited Europe to praise and strengthen the west, urging Britain to stay in the EU and Germany to support the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Reactions in Britain, and Germany and the United States propose that he was praising a ghost. Or at least,a ghost of a former self.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the hymn sheet of the English conservative middle class, or Obama recalled all the institutions Britain and America possess worked together to create since 1945,and how the EU has helped “spread British values and practices democracy, the rule of law, and open markets – across the continent and to its periphery”.
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Source: theguardian.com