http://central.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/09/central-european-expectations-from-the-new-american-president/ A Central European perspective Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://central.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/09/central-european-expectations-from-the-new-american-president/#comment-302 Corina Murafa Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:41 +0000 http://central.blogactiv.eu/2008/11/09/central-european-expectations-from-the-new-american-president/#comment-302 I was actually thinking of writing an entry on the same topic. Funny. Anyway, if you look at it from afar, Obama's priority is not Central and Eastern Europe. With the deep legacy socialism left in here, Eastern Europeans tend to be more rightist, hence less Obama-oriented. Secondly, Central and Eastern Europe has been for previous American administrations a great supporter of all the wars they have fought (which Obama disagreed with) and mostly a military ally ("the military" being a field which Obama doesn't stress). Last but not least, I was reading the other day an interview with former US Ambassador in Romania Alfred Moses, who was claiming that Obama doesn't have in his close staff any expert in Central and Eastern Europe - or the Black Sea region (instead, he has several ones in China, Afghanistan and the rest); his assumption is that relations between the US and Romania will not be as close in the future as they are now. I was actually thinking of writing an entry on the same topic. Funny. Anyway, if you look at it from afar, Obama’s priority is not Central and Eastern Europe. With the deep legacy socialism left in here, Eastern Europeans tend to be more rightist, hence less Obama-oriented. Secondly, Central and Eastern Europe has been for previous American administrations a great supporter of all the wars they have fought (which Obama disagreed with) and mostly a military ally (”the military” being a field which Obama doesn’t stress). Last but not least, I was reading the other day an interview with former US Ambassador in Romania Alfred Moses, who was claiming that Obama doesn’t have in his close staff any expert in Central and Eastern Europe - or the Black Sea region (instead, he has several ones in China, Afghanistan and the rest); his assumption is that relations between the US and Romania will not be as close in the future as they are now.

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