New Europe
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New Europe is a rhetorical term used by conservative political analysts in the United States to describe European post-Communist era countries. It is regarded as an "ignorant" term by most Europeans, Americans, and as many others. Countries commonly described by conservative American political analysts include (but are not necessarily limited to; alphabetically):
"New European" countries were most of all distinguished by their governments' support of the 2003 war in Iraq, as opposed to an "Old Europe" noted as unsupportive of the war. The term clearly wasn't based so much on the facts on the ground as on the impact its usage was intended to create. The governments of several other countries, such as the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Spain also supported the war, but can not be conceived to belong to any New Europe; and the public opinion in New Europe, like in the "Old", was markedly more suspicious of the proposed war than the public opinion in the United States. However New Europe countries didn't experience protests on the scale seen in Old Europe, or anti-americanism, neither was the support for operation in Iraq a major issue in internal politics.
The phrase became famous after a comment by Donald Rumsfeld who, when asked about the fact that over 70% of the people in Europe were opposed to the Iraq invasion, replied:
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- Article from Slate
- EUFPC European Foreign Policy Council
- History and institutions of the united Europe (Videos, photos, maps,...) : European Navigator
- New Europe Newspaper— Covers EU institutions and 49 countries in and around Europe
