US president vowed fresh start with Europe after Bush years but has often seemed detached about EUVisiting Berlin in July 2008,Barack Obama received a rock stars welcome from tens of thousands of excited fans. Many in Germany and across Europe saw the Illinois senator the November US presidential election was still some way off – as a political saviour after the divisive Sturm und Drang of the George W Bush years. Obama promised a fresh start. America was Europe’s best friend, and as president he would pursue cooperation rather than the unilateralism that produced the Iraq war. “There is a feeling in Europe that America is portion of what has gone incorrect in our world, and ” he said. And he would achieve that right.
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Source: theguardian.com