I like your analysis, and have thought I smelled that particular stench for several months.
The EU as they thought it would happen is dead - and those self-aggrandizing "big" powers of Central Europe may well find themselves in the weeds as to influence after this is all done.
76 posted on 02/15/2003 9:23:05 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
(those who unilaterally beat their swords into plowshares wind up plowing for those who don't)