Like he should have done the two times he were in Copenhagen. I shall quitly but firmly take issue with you suggesting that "Europe" in any way should be one.

The Brits, Danes, Norwgians (and by implication the Swedes) are firmly opposed to the European Union Concept, and categorily detests any notion about any "Predsident" or anything of this sort, and we sincerely hope that it the whole project will fail, which it eventually will. Thanks to good British judgement and common sense, the EU was enlarged in 2002, and now numbers 27 nations. The entusiastic Danish PM, Mr. Anders Fool-of-Ear was gladly conducting the enlargement process, because he is obne of those "liberal eveangelist"s, that you talked about in an earlier blog. This was done by British consent, in order to block Frendb-German attempts to a wider union and in order to make the Union ungovernable, and this is very good for all Freedom loving individuals.

We have the Americans to defend us, something they will eventually do, because they have a supreme interest in anything that goes on in Europe. That is the lesson from two world wars: America will eventually get drawn in, so they maight as well stay, which they will.

Now I don't want you in the future to make references to Europe as being "one". This is a mistake that many Americans makes all the time, but I had expected something different from a professor in internatrional politics.

Prof. Walt, the summit is entitled the Bilateral EU-USA Summit.

This issue is that Spain's Zapatero government, which on the date scheduled for the summit, 24-25 May 2010 in Madrid, will hold the rotating EU Presidency, had declared the summit to be one of the hallmarks of its presidency along with the EU-Latin America Summit.

You see, Mr. Zapatero was officially "persona non grata" in Washington because he ordered Spain's contingent out of Iraq. The summit was to celebrate the restoration of normal relations between Madrid and Washington which was confirmed by Mr. Zapatero's visit to the White House on October 9.

Significantly, the head of Spain's conservative (right-wing) opposition, Mariiano Rojoy, is invited to the Congressional Prayer Breakfast this Friday.

It's all about Spain.

I'm sorry but I disagree with the first comment, the E.U is a large union of states and 97% of the citizens want to be in the E.U. ,just because the British have outdated ideas of self importance shouldn't be thought that the rest of Europe doesn't want to be in the union and I agree with the article Europe should flex it's combined clout as we are a model for the rest of the world, a democratic modern and economically advanced and peaceful region in which most should aspire.

Where else will Europe go anyway? We're pretty much the only one left who takes them even somewhat seriously. Deep down, they know this.

As a European - who happens to be British – please count me in the camp that would like a stronger united Europe to act as a counter weight to US foreign policy. I am worried by ‘a) more capable of shaping world events on its own’, America is very keen on this and I hope Europe would not be constantly interfering in everyone else’s countries. I am having great difficulty of thinking of anywhere which - having been ‘blessed’ by having Washington’s eye fall upon it - is not worse off because of it. The US’s penchant for propping up regimes – which heretofore were anti-communist – and now need to espouse support for the GWOT (translation - allow US to operate military operations from within their boarders) inevitably seems to lead to self perpetuating, corrupt, anti-democratic states. When a state is supported to promote US rather than its own citizens wishes its eventual, and inevitable, collapse after a period of escalating repression is all the harder. Would the pendulum have swung as far in Iran if the Shah had not been aided well past his sell-by-date. Are we not setting up exactly the same scenario in Iraq, Afganistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi, Yemen(?) and on and on?