jot-23
19.02.03, 20:57
"Chirac's outburst must be understood as the recognition that a dream is
beginning to unravel. The New Europe imagined and created from rubble after
the last war will not gravitate necessarily around the Paris-Berlin axis,"
the Romanian newspaper Ziua said in an editorial
The Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas said in an editorial: "It looks like
Chirac has forgotten that eastern European countries broke free from
communism and ... will not be the silent servants of Paris."
"Did the Europeans and especially the French ever understand what Romania
endured under communism? Romania is desperate ... Romania sees in the United
States at this time the strongest guarantee that it won't have to return to
the quagmire."
"Chirac is doing exactly what he criticizes the United States of doing:
telling other countries what to do," said Guntars Krasts, head of the
European affairs committee in Latvia's parliament.
