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Article: Europe moves towards superpower challenge; Growing sense of rivalry in economic and even military terms between EU and the United States.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Byline: MARIO BASINI
THOSE of us who grew up in the Cold War era are used to seeing the relationship between Europe and the United States as an heroic partnership forged against the evil forces of the Soviet Bloc.
We have treated the Americans much as a child would a benevolent uncle who is there to provide moral and economic support at precisely the time we have needed it most.
The United States's military might provided us with the security we needed in a world threatened by the massive nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union and her satellites.
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