The hottest battle in the war for Bush's ear will be over energy policy. Nigeria is in turmoil, and its ability to maintain an assured flow of oil in doubt. Iraq is unable to restore its oil output to pre-war levels. Saudi Arabia's royals and China's communists have struck a new deal which is most probably missiles-for-oil. Vladimir Putin has made clear that he views Russia's vast reserves of oil and gas as weapons in a new sort of cold war.
The oil market is increasingly dominated by state-run en-tities pursuing geopolitical objectives that have nothing to do with profit.
Las votaciones de Francia y Holanda muestran que a los votantes no les apetece más integración. Ambos países temen que sus industrias salgan volando a nuevos estados miembros de la UE con menores salarios.
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Bush, Blair, and the problem of Europe. The British prime minister has a mandate from his parliamentary party to persuade the president to throw his weight behind a renewed push for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. George W. Bush has a mandate from his electorate to win the war on terror. Each got what he wanted.
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(Published in The Weekly Standard, from the January 27, 2004 issue) THIS IS THE SEASON of high-level international meetings and, therefore, the season of many discontents.
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