Welcome news indeed - and maybe time for just a little 'kiss and make up' with 'old' Europe. I know plenty of FReepers seem pretty indifferent to Europe, but as a Yank long resident in England, I have a different perspective...: )
Wildly off-topic, but it was striking to hear this morning that an analysis of the 2001 Census shows that the number of US-born immigrants to the UK exceeds the number born in Bangladesh. Rather different from the mental picture of British society held by most Freepers, I think.