De Tapas con Obama
“Cuando los españoles se enteren, será como si una bomba atómica hubiera caído en Madrid”.
Gideon Rachman, experto en política exterior del Financial Times
So what is it with Obama and the EU? Is he perhaps nurturing a grudge against politicians from the Iberian peninsula? Is it something to do with coming from Hawaii? Does he hate the smell of garlic? None of the above. It’s simply that the European Union is not very high up his list of priorities. The Europeans should take this as a perverse sort of compliment. Obama’s top foreign policy priorities include places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, China, Russia. The European Union, by contrast, is a nice quiet place that seems to be getting along fine. Why fly all the way to Madrid, just to eat some tapas and exchange some polite chit-chat. It’s a nice thing to do, if you have the time – but Obama has enough on his plate to be getting on with.
