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Article: EUROPE: Cozying Up to Condi; A new era of good feeling for the United States and Europe? Don't count on it.(Condoleezza Rice)
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- Newsweek International
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- February 14, 2005
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Byline: Michael Meyer (With Stryker Mcguire and Carla Power In London, Richard Wolffe and Eve Conant in Washington, Stefan Theil in Berlin and Tracy Mcnicoll in Paris)
Everyone agrees. Condoleezza Rice came to Europe and made very nice noises. A gentler, wiser, more diplomatic Bush administration appears eager to repair the tattered transatlantic relationship. A new era of shared interests, from Iran to Middle East peace, offers opportunities for cooperation rather than unilateral confrontation. Grateful Europeans noted the U.S. president's calls to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and French President Jacques Chirac. "A few weeks ago, such telephone contact ...