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Anti-Europeanism - 12th January 2003, 19.27

Reading many of the American blogs elicits similar attitudes to those encompassed by this column from Jay Ambrose. Although, it is pitched as anti-European, the Modesto bee in the bonnet is specifically French.

Politically, every action has a reaction. The political class in Europe has nurtured anti-Americanist attitudes for some time and are now encountering a similar attitude from their counterparts across the Atlantic. Did they anticipate such a reaction as a welcome pressure on European integration or did they assume, that an informed American public would be as pliant as their own?