The President's trip to Europe

BELGIUM:  HET LAATSTE NIEUWS observed (6/15):  "Prime 
Minister Verhofstadt
now knows why George Walker Bush was elected president of the 
United
States: because of his charm and enchanting personality... Bush's 
trip is
a real 'operation charm.'"

ENGLAND:  The TIMES observed (6/14):  "President Bush urged 
America's NATO
allies to abandon their Cold War mindsets and jettison the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty as he made a passionate case 
yesterday for
building defenses against the threat of missile attack from rogue
states..."

FRANCE:  Jean Quatremer opined in left-of-center LIBERATION  
(6/14):
"Yesterday, during his brief address at the NATO summit, the U.S.
president managed a tour de force as he showed the Allies' 
reservations
toward Missile Defense to be outdated and obsolete...."

FRANCE:  Marc Paolini in centrist LA TRIBUNE (06/15): "George 
W. Bush
continues to amaze Europe. Twenty-four hours after his 
performance before
the Atlantic Alliance, the new American president accomplished 
another
perfect performance in Goteborg....  He impressed the participants 
with
his knowledge of the issues, his authority over his team, and his 
overall
cleverness..."

ITALY:  Alberto Pasolini Zanelli in leading center-right IL GIORNALE
(6/14): "But for sure the U.S. president scored a considerable 
success
upon his debut at a NATO summit and managed to do so much 
quicker than
most observers on both sides of the Atlantic expected."

POLAND:  Jan Skorzynski wrote in centrist Rzeczpospolita (6/15):  
"George
W. Bush began his tour of Europe in an impressive way.  
Decisions on the
second round of NATO enlargement made at the Brussels summit, 
which was
attended by the U.S. president, is very good news--and not only for 
the
aspiring countries, but also for Poland...."

POLAND:  Independent, liberal Dagens Nyheter (6/15):  "The 
United States
and Europe have come closer thanks to George W. Bush's visit."

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