More rights for the EU, less rights for member states

If you ever thought that the Euroconstitution, rejected by the French and the Dutch 2 years ago, is irrelevant, you need to wake up. The EU has, despite the referendal results, set up several institutions which it would be permitted to found if all member states ratified the Constitution Europeenne. One of those agencies is the Foreign Ministry of the EU, headed by Javier Solana, who already represents the EU abroad - he is the one to whom non-Europeans talk, NOT FMs of EU member states.

Regarding Iran, the Austrians have signed a certain pact with the Iranians today. The pact says the Austrians are going to exploit Iranian oil fields and pay the Iranians. Iran exports nothing else than oil and NG; a global embargo could make the Iranians penniless. But that is not going to happen, the Austrians don't believe the Iranians are dangerous; they don't believe the Iranians are producing nuclear weapons; they don't believe they should stop buying Iranian oil. How will they sing when attacked by the Iranians?

That's one more reason for the Americans to dump Continental Europe.

Dear readers, I have prepared a list of those European states which are pro-American, those which are anti-American (pro-Russian) and those which could theoretically be allies of the US and Britain if their leaders were convinced not to appease the Russians (pro-Russian=pro-Iranian, as Iran is just a client state of Russia).

Pro-American:
Britain
Czech Republic
Norway

Anti-American:
Finland
Spain
Austria
Italy
Sweden
Belgium
Greece
Romania
Bulgaria

Leaders of these states could be convinced:
France (election scheduled to occur 6th May 2007, the winner will certainly be Nicolas Sarkozy)
Portugal
Poland
Slovakia
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Denmark
Hungary
Serbia
Montenegro
Albania
Croatia
Luxembourg
Netherlands

Neutral:
Switzerland
Iceland