Prague Daily Monitor: Fight for influence in Europe's heart underlies base row
Fight for influence in Europe's heart underlies base row
Struggle for influence in Central Europe is in the core of the disputes over U.S. anti-missile bases in the Czech Republic and Poland, Pavel Paral writes in Mlada fronta Dnes today.
Paral writes that the post-communist central European countries want to play a greater role in the discussion on the future, while Germany, the United States' major ally in Europe is for various reasons looking for ways to get to Russia which Russian President Vladimir Putin is quite adroitly making use of.
He says that relations with Russia are in the centre of the EU leading countries' attention. He mentions public opinion polls that International Herald Tribune daily released recently. It ensues from them that a large part of Europeans think that not only Turkey, but also Russia will be EU members in 50 years.
Labels: EU, Integration, Missile Crises, Russia, US
