European press review

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.....Bush, although not yet talking about regime change in Tehran or Damascus, seems tempted to rely on the military big stick, rather than the diplomatic carrots that France and its European partners are holding out Liberation.....

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Tuesday, 22 February, 2005, 08:54 GMT
European press review

US President George W Bush's visit to Europe dominates the editorial columns of today's European papers.

Papers in France examine the signs of rapprochement between President Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac - one of the fiercest critics of the Iraq war - at a dinner in Brussels last night......


But it adds that "although the two men met and talked, you cannot be sure that they really heard each other".

.....Bush, although not yet talking about regime change in Tehran or Damascus, seems tempted to rely on the military big stick, rather than the diplomatic carrots that France and its European partners are holding out Liberation.....