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This sounds to me basically like anti-American France and Germany conspiring to turn the EU into an anti-American project. This is so gratuitous and unnecessary. The US traditionally has been neutral to positive about European integration, thinking, erroneously as it has turned out, that the Europeans were our friends. Since they have turned knee-jerk opposers of anything the US stands for, and simply hate the US and identify falsely as the focus of evil in the modern world, while giving a complete pass to Islamist terrorism and its supporters, I think we have learned our lesson. The Europeans are not to be trusted.

It will be one of the challenges that this new confederation is not anti-american. There are big benefits for western Europe if it can unite. Just think about lean administrations, a combined defense and bigger influence on its issues of interest. Of course, if America still is thinking in the old "divide et impera" categories, it will see this development as a threat. It will not not help anyway if this should be the case since your nation has only very limited influence on those issues.

Nevertheless I hope (and I am sure) that there is the will on your side of the Atlantic to solve the problems on this planet through co-operation and not with primitive pressure. It is simple realism to see that western Europe has its very own interests of course. The thing is that they are nearly congruent with the US-interests. We want to have stable conditions to sell our goods around this world. Therefore we need to be save from terror, crazy nations with nuclear arms and we need stable conditions like valid patents, working norms etc. This is the reason why America should see those changes as a great chance. It is better to speak with one working government than with the governments of Chirac, Schroeder, Verhofstadt and whoever.

BTW - if I understand your name (according to the bulla of pope Bonifatius VIII.) in FR right, you already accepted the European hegemony since the Pope is undoubted a real European. (Just joking ;-) )