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The European Question
March 5, 2003 2306 GMT
The Iraq crisis has redefined relations between the United States and Europe. It also has redefined relations within Europe, where the desire to build a transnational entity has encountered the desire to build a Europe that is a great power. The Franco-German entente driving European unification now has encountered the deep suspicion with which France and Germany are viewed by others. In many ways, it can be said that Iraq has marked the end of European innocence: It is the collision point between a romantic vision of Europe and the hard realities of European life.

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