THE HANDSTAND | DECEMBER 2005 |
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American Committee for a Strong Europe The neocons new strategy for Europe by Thierry Meyssan The European scene has been modified by the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in France and the Netherlands and the result of the recent legislative elections in Germany. Thierry Meyssan reveals the analyses of US neoconservatives and their new strategy for Europe. From left to right: Javier Solana, George W. Bush, Jean-Claude Juncker and José Manuel Barroso in February 2005. As a result of the lessons learned from the events that have shaken Europe over the past two years, the neoconservatives have decided to change their own agenda for this region of the world, which originally involved: 1) Redeploying the US military forces stationed in Europe, moving them to the East and the South to control Central and Eastern Europe, and establishing a containment belt around the Russian Federation; 2) Neutralizing any efforts towards an independent European Defense and reinforcing NATOs leadership; 3) Leaning on the Brussels Commission to attain a merger between the US free trade zone and that of Western Europe. In order to achieve that goal, they counted on a supposed constitutional treaty that would establish, in advance, the powers and the political program of the Commission so that the latter would be completely free from any opposing power. The redeployment of US troops has been taking place without any questioning. The European Union affectively participates not complaining in all destabilization operations carried out around Russia; with the pretext of carrying out programs of assistance and economic development, the EU facilitates US interference in the Caucasus; Javier Solana himself was in Ukraine supervising the Orange Revolution; and the Commission is financing a destabilization program against Belarus. The loyal Solana,
who has not forgotten that he was the NATO General
Secretary before he was appointed General Secretary of
the European Union, managed to have the Council of Heads
of State and Government adopt a strategic doctrine that
copies very faithfully that of President Bush. This is
why the EUs defense is more than ever dependent on
NATO. However, although Solana was successful in
involving the European Union in Afghanistan and Sudan, he
failed in the case of Iraq. George W. Bush and Javier Solana. Finally, they have
had to take into account the failure of the
Constitutional Treaty project, rejected by the French and
the Dutch, and also the failure of Angela Merkel, who was
expected to include the Germans in the pseudo-liberal
globalization. After interpreting these events as an
illustration of the fears of expansion of the European
Union and the immigration it is causing, or as a
depressive crisis in the face of unemployment, equally
translated into extremist votes, and even anti-Semitic
ones, the neoconservatives understood that they would not
be able to impose the Anglo-Saxon socio-economic model on
recalcitrant populations through the political way. They
have now changed their plans and have decided to look for
the support of the world faction of national business
owners. José Manuel Barroso, appointed president of the
Commission thanks to George W. Bush after he organized
the Summit of the Azores prior to the invasion of Iraq,
was ordered to put the European Constitution aside and to
readjust the mechanism. Thus, last week, Barroso
announced the burial of the 70 legislative projects
saying they are too complex and annoying for the public
opinion. The truth is that the strategy has been changed:
it is no longer about ruling under the authority of the
Commission, but about dismantling what currently exists
and transferring the making of the regulations to a
transatlantic Regulation Forum controlled by the top
chiefs of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD). This Committee,
which will try not to interfere too openly with the
European Union policy, immediately asked the
friends of America to do it for them. Thus,
Saudi Arabia said present and will finance
the next electoral campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in France
so that the neoconservatives can get rid of Dominique de
Villepin. Similar measures were taken with respect to
each and every big state of the European Union.
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