"French President Nicolas Sarkozy is running amok," Thorsten Knuf concerned, in the Berliner Zeitung, after his repeated calls for a military response to the war in Libya and in particular to targeted strikes. "It seems that Sarkozy wants to overthrow the Libyan dictator alone. A few months ago, he would willingly have sold nuclear power plants.
Now, Sarkozy is leading the hunt anti-Gaddafi. A struggle between man and man," quipped the German journalist. In the Libyan case, Nicolas Sarkozy has in effect become the "leader reported going into the war," added the editorial Swiss daily Le Temps. On the eve of the extraordinary EU summit European Union, which opened Friday, March 11, Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, sent a letter with Twenty-Seven proposing, among other things, the introduction of a no-fly zone mandated by the Security Council of UN.
However, The Guardian noted, both countries have said privately that a UN resolution was not necessary for military action, citing the example of Kosovo. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of NATO imposing conditions on such an intervention, merely decided Friday to send warships in the Mediterranean to monitor the arms embargo.
If the White House has expressed some interest in establishing a no-fly zone, divisions have emerged within the EU over its appropriateness. Germany voted against, as well as Italy and Greece. "We do not want to be dragged into a war in North Africa", said the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle.
Belgium and the Netherlands have expressed their differences, not oppose it if it came under UN mandate and relationship with the Arab League and African Union. New divisions have emerged after the handshake Sarkozy on the steps of the Elysee to two representatives of the National Council of Libya, confirming its official recognition by France.
This decision has plunged the EU into the "confusion", The Independent and analysis generated "anger" and "dismay". According Westerwelle, Sarkozy would have acted "on a whim." William Hague has merely said that Great Britain did not recognize that states and non-specific groups, notes the Financial Times (paying section).
Although disturbing, Sarkozy's position on the Libyan case may well be "clever" both in terms of foreign policy than domestic policy, Gero von Randow analysis of the newspaper Die Zeit. Mr Sarkozy has in fact everything to gain by showing alongside the British and against the Germans. And, repeating the hands of the new Minister Alain Juppe's foreign policy, he shows that "when the world is burning, it's him the fire chief." "The syndrome of divisions in the EU about the U.S.
intervention in Iraq in 2003 remains fresh in our memories," rappelleLe Time. The Swiss daily advance an interpretation that circulates in Brussels: "The escalation could proceed with a French scientist shared roles in major EU countries with the task of handling the bat and others, like Greece, the task of negotiating backstage with the clan Gaddafi.
" A strategy that is not growing Patrick Cockburn of the Independent. "France has clearly not learned the lessons of history," says ilsimplement analysis. "This decision is proof that [Nicolas Sarkozy] does not know more than other European leaders what to do", asserts the British journalist.
This gesture marked a "very nineteenth century imperialism", could discredit the opposition locally. What makes this decision even more difficult to understand, the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown the devastating consequences of not having a local ally credible. "Nicolas Sarkozy's gamble is risky, but the solution is to leave Colonel Qaddafi regain control of a third country that seceded is much worse," said Christophe Lamfalussy for his part in the editorial of La Libre Belgique.
He nevertheless called for "prudence" on the commitment of European forces in Libya. It should be taken, said he, "that if the Arab and African countries requesting clearly and pledge support, including financially for those who can, this operation". In its editorial, Le Temps in turn calls on states to "be wary of simple solutions," even if "they were perfectly right" to focus far economic sanctions, visa ban, an embargo on arms sales , diplomatic isolation and military threats.
But, he warns, "At difficult solutions approach." "Unless some miracle, the country likely will choose to intervene at short notice between a perilous military action and the abandonment of a population at risk. With, in both cases, the assurance that their decision will weigh not only the Libya but throughout the 'Arab Spring ".
Helen Salon 
Now, Sarkozy is leading the hunt anti-Gaddafi. A struggle between man and man," quipped the German journalist. In the Libyan case, Nicolas Sarkozy has in effect become the "leader reported going into the war," added the editorial Swiss daily Le Temps. On the eve of the extraordinary EU summit European Union, which opened Friday, March 11, Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, sent a letter with Twenty-Seven proposing, among other things, the introduction of a no-fly zone mandated by the Security Council of UN.
However, The Guardian noted, both countries have said privately that a UN resolution was not necessary for military action, citing the example of Kosovo. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of NATO imposing conditions on such an intervention, merely decided Friday to send warships in the Mediterranean to monitor the arms embargo.
If the White House has expressed some interest in establishing a no-fly zone, divisions have emerged within the EU over its appropriateness. Germany voted against, as well as Italy and Greece. "We do not want to be dragged into a war in North Africa", said the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle.
Belgium and the Netherlands have expressed their differences, not oppose it if it came under UN mandate and relationship with the Arab League and African Union. New divisions have emerged after the handshake Sarkozy on the steps of the Elysee to two representatives of the National Council of Libya, confirming its official recognition by France.
This decision has plunged the EU into the "confusion", The Independent and analysis generated "anger" and "dismay". According Westerwelle, Sarkozy would have acted "on a whim." William Hague has merely said that Great Britain did not recognize that states and non-specific groups, notes the Financial Times (paying section).
Although disturbing, Sarkozy's position on the Libyan case may well be "clever" both in terms of foreign policy than domestic policy, Gero von Randow analysis of the newspaper Die Zeit. Mr Sarkozy has in fact everything to gain by showing alongside the British and against the Germans. And, repeating the hands of the new Minister Alain Juppe's foreign policy, he shows that "when the world is burning, it's him the fire chief." "The syndrome of divisions in the EU about the U.S.
intervention in Iraq in 2003 remains fresh in our memories," rappelleLe Time. The Swiss daily advance an interpretation that circulates in Brussels: "The escalation could proceed with a French scientist shared roles in major EU countries with the task of handling the bat and others, like Greece, the task of negotiating backstage with the clan Gaddafi.
" A strategy that is not growing Patrick Cockburn of the Independent. "France has clearly not learned the lessons of history," says ilsimplement analysis. "This decision is proof that [Nicolas Sarkozy] does not know more than other European leaders what to do", asserts the British journalist.
This gesture marked a "very nineteenth century imperialism", could discredit the opposition locally. What makes this decision even more difficult to understand, the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown the devastating consequences of not having a local ally credible. "Nicolas Sarkozy's gamble is risky, but the solution is to leave Colonel Qaddafi regain control of a third country that seceded is much worse," said Christophe Lamfalussy for his part in the editorial of La Libre Belgique.
He nevertheless called for "prudence" on the commitment of European forces in Libya. It should be taken, said he, "that if the Arab and African countries requesting clearly and pledge support, including financially for those who can, this operation". In its editorial, Le Temps in turn calls on states to "be wary of simple solutions," even if "they were perfectly right" to focus far economic sanctions, visa ban, an embargo on arms sales , diplomatic isolation and military threats.
But, he warns, "At difficult solutions approach." "Unless some miracle, the country likely will choose to intervene at short notice between a perilous military action and the abandonment of a population at risk. With, in both cases, the assurance that their decision will weigh not only the Libya but throughout the 'Arab Spring ".
Helen Salon
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