SCHRODER GOES TO LONDON

This is news. Newly elected German chancellors invariably go to Paris for their first foreign trip. Schroder has gone to London. On the day that the Blair government has further seized the initiative with its damning report on Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, Britain is slowly becoming the pivot for the post-9/11 diplomatic world. One thing seems clear to me: the notion of a single European foreign policy is now well and truly dead.