Chirac roasts reactionary Eastern European US puppets
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Tuesday February 18, 2003 22:43
by Jacque
No wonder FF, FG and Labour wanted these puppet banana republics in the expanded EU
By Oana Lungescu BBC European regional correspondent French President Jacques Chirac launched an unprecedented attack on the east European candidates for EU membership that signed two public letters of support for the American stance on Iraq.
At the end of an emergency summit in Brussels, Mr Chirac called their behaviour "childish" and warned it could have an impact on their hopes of joining the EU.
LATEST LETTER SUPPORTING US
Albania
Bulgaria*
Croatia
Estonia*
Latvia*
Lithuania*
Macedonia
Romania*
Slovakia*
Slovenia*
*EU candidate country
France was already concerned that the former communist countries would become America's Trojan horse within the EU and Nato - but the two letters have clearly stung President Chirac to the quick.
In an extraordinary outburst, he described the behaviour of the candidate countries as "dangerous".
Joining the EU takes some consideration and consultation, he said, and these countries were reckless and not very well-behaved.
"They missed a great opportunity to shut up," he chided the candidates, and their pro-American stance could feed public hostility to EU expansion.
Chilly reception
Eight former communist countries are set to join the EU next year, but Mr Chirac was particularly critical of the poorest applicants, Romania and Bulgaria, which will have to wait until 2007.
JANUARY'S OPEN LETTER OF SUPPORT
Czech Republic*
Denmark
Hungary*
Italy
Poland*
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
*EU candidate country
Their position is already very delicate, he said, and if they wanted to diminish their chances of joining the EU they could not have chosen a better way.
So the leaders of the applicant countries will get a chilly reception when they come to Brussels on Tuesday to be briefed on the summit results - even if Mr Chirac has already gone home.
Last week France rejected a British request for the candidates to join the talks on Iraq.
Even though it is unlikely that expansion can be stopped by the depth of French feeling, this first incident has shown that alliances will be much more unpredictable and fraught in a Union of 25 and more countries.
Comments (4 of 4)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4It sounds like if these countries join the EU they will no longer be the puppets of the US as this article mentions but will be puppets of France.
The Eastern European nations are kissing the butt of the USA in order to please the dominant member of NATO, the USA.
All while their people OPPOSE the USA's rush to war in Iraq. As witnessed by the largest protests in world history.
Are the Eastern nations corporatist pseudo-democracies like the USA?
It is obvious that these nations are choosing their NATO membership over the views of the largest founding core members of the EU, France and Germany.
Chirac is pointing out that butter comes before guns. The EU is more important to their economic well-being than NATO. And the USA is winding down its support of NATO anyway.
Vive La France!
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There is little to choose between either the EU or US empires. both are evil in the extreme, just look at their bloodstained histories.
So it is no wonder that FF andFG/Labour were wetting their knickers to get them to join the EU and bullying this country with a second Nice referendum
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