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Resentment of France is growing in Eastern Europe where French policies are perceived to be anti-American and undermining the European Union's cohesion. Diplomats describe the mood as "Francophobia" and attribute it to various statements by French President Jacques Chirac and to the rejection by French voters of the proposed European constitution. According to one assessment, "The vast majority of people in Eastern and Central Europe is highly critical of French diplomacy. They consider the United States to be the big winner of the Cold War and the most influential power in the world." "We tend to blame the French for...

NATO leaders moved on from bitter rows over Iraq today and turned to tough talks on reshaping their alliance for new security threats. "A period of distance between Chirac, Schroeder, Blair and Bush is over and a new period of collaboration has begun," declared Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after a dinner in Istanbul for the leaders of NATO's 26 nations. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer cited the alliance's plans to widen its peace mission in Afghanistan as proof it can project stability far from national borders. The leaders will also agree to train the insurgency-beset security forces of...

Does anyone know where to find a list of everything that is imported to the United States from France? I did a search on google, and couldn't find anything. I would like to have a list of everything imported from France.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today set out to reject a plan by France, Germany and Russia to fend off the threat of war in Iraq through more weapons inspections. He was due to say that even a "thousand-fold" increase in the number of inspectors could not guarantee disarmament by Saddam Hussein. Mr Straw was making his London address as a row splitting Nato raged on over the decision by France, Belgium and Germany to veto plans to protect Turkey from military fallout from a Gulf conflict. As ambassadors met in Brussels today in a desperate bid to find a way...