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09/01/2009

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Cutileiro, José

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Expresso - Portugal | 07/07/2008

Shifting the blame to the EU

According to the weekly magazine Expresso, national governments are responsible for citizens' mistrust in the European Union: "In recent weeks many governments were taken aback by the EU citizens' hostility towards European institutions. They should not be surprised, because they themselves are to blame. For years the governments have been claiming the successes in their countries for themselves, and passing the blame for anything that goes wrong onto the EU Commission. This is suicidal, because without a strong Union the countries of the EU ... will not be able to get by in the globalised world. ... An EU that can effectively manage the domestic market, foreign trade, competition, the single currency and soon also energy and the environment will be strong. But this is only possible if Europeans avoid getting caught up in misplaced internal wrangling."

Expresso - Portugal | 19/08/2006

France's influence in the Middle East

Columnist José Cutileiro believes that France still enjoys powerful influence in the Middle East. "The road to peace in the Middle East will be long, dangerous, and unsure. It will demand very complex deals between all the regional powers and will need to rely on skill and commitment from Washington, characteristics that sadly lack in the Bush administration. One thing, however, is clear after the events in Lebanon. After the United States, the outside power which will be able to exert the most influence on the region is neither Russia, nor China, nor the European Union - with its financial aid - but France ...".

Expresso - Portugal | 15/05/2006

Russia's return to the international stage

Jose Cutileiro, a columnist at the weekly, attributes Russia's conspicuous return to the international stage in part to European weakness. "Five years ago, George Bush was seduced by Putin's 'soul'. Those days are gone. Just a few days ago, in Lithuania, Dick Cheney [the US vice president] berated Russia for failing to respect human rights - before flying off to Central Asia in order to strengthen ties with abject, oil-exporting tyrants. Oil whose high price allows Putin to buy off his people and ignore outside critics. The latter, moreover, are becoming ever more rare since few Europeans seek to have a falling out with a significant energy supplier. Between the absence of democratic resistance from the Russians, the European dissension and the ineptitude of the Bush administration, Russia is once again becoming a nuisance neighbour."

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