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### Viewing cable 05PARIS8631, AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER EU COMMISSION

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05PARIS8631 | 2005-12-23 10:10 | 2011-02-10 08:08 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Paris
Appears in these articles: http://abonnes.lemonde.fr/documents-wikileaks/article/2011/02/09/wikileaks-les-visiteurs-de-l-ambassade_1477418_1446239.htm

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 PARIS 008631

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/23/2015
    TAGS: PREL PGOV FR EUN
    SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FORMER EU COMMISSION
    PRESIDENT JACQUES DELORS

    Classified By: Acting Political Counselor Bruce I. Turner for reasons 1
    .4 (b) and (d).

    ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on
    December 21, former EU Commission president Jacques Delors
    underlined his feeling that Europe is currently in a deep
    crisis, in part because of the lack of visionary European
    leadership, but also because of Europeans' hostility to EU
    enlargement, and disagreements among member states about
    foreign policy and socio-economic matters. The French
    people, he said, are trapped in a "schizophrenia" combining
    arrogance (the exaltation of France) with self-doubt. He did
    not see a politician on the French scene, on the left or the
    right, capable of leading France out of this malaise, and he
    refused to be drawn out about his preferences on either the
    left or the right. Delors nonetheless insisted that the
    Socialist Party was fundamentally pro-transatlantic, adding
    that no matter who is the victor in 2007, U.S.-French
    relations would improve. He concluded with the hope that the
    U.S. would pay more attention to the EU and noted the need
    for the U.S. and the EU to work as partners, and not rivals,
    to confront the challenges of the 21st century. END SUMMARY.

    The Crisis in the EU
    --------------------

    ¶2. (C) Ambassador Stapleton met December 21 with Jacques
    Delors in his office at the Council of Employment, Income,
    and Social Cohesion, the government-affiliated think tank
    that Delors, 80, now heads. Delors said he believed Europe
    was in a deep crisis, from which it was proving difficult to
    emerge. First, the Europeans did not understand or
    appreciate the need for the May 2004 enlargement, which he
    characterized several times with great emotion an "imperative
    of history." As a young European activist in the 1950s, he
    said, he would not have imagined today's EU of 25. But the
    events of the second half of the century made it necessary to
    enlarge. He welcomed the opening of accession talks with
    Turkey in the optic of preventing a clash of civilizations
    between the West and Islam.

    ¶3. (C) The second cause of crisis, Delors said, was the deep
    disagreements among EU member states on foreign policy (as
    exemplifed by the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s
    and in the lead up to Iraq in late 2002 and early 2003) and
    on socio-economic policy. On the latter, Delors discerned
    three divergent viewpoints among European actors: to the left
    is the English model, followed by Sweden; to the right, the
    French model; and in the middle, he said, is the path he
    himself advocated as commission president, but which finds
    few adherents today: the path of small steps. His view was
    that EU member states should attempt only to agree on
    concrete initiatives and put aside the mirage of a fully
    agreed foreign policy.

    French Narcissism
    -----------------

    ¶4. (C) When asked how the EU might work its way out of the
    crisis, Delors responded that, regrettably, Europe currently
    lacked the visionary leaders of the past such as Adenauer,
    Schuman, Kohl, and Mitterand. The current heads of state, he
    said, had no real vision. He believed the new German
    government would play a positive role re-establishing
    equilibrium in Germany's relations with Europe and with the
    United States. But he was dismissive of President Chirac and
    the current government, arguing that this would not change
    until new presidential elections. More generally, he
    complained about a French predilection to put theory before
    practice, often with disastrous results. Similarly, the
    French system had difficulty reconciling its myth of unity
    with the existence of diversity.

    ¶5. (C) In regards to the French rejection of the EU
    constitutional treaty in the May 29 referendum, Delors
    described himself as "shocked" by the French notion that its
    own rejection of the constitutional treaty made it a dead
    letter. "What pretension!" he exclaimed. He continued that
    the other EU member states had the right to pronounce
    themselves on the treaty, and that the EU should not consider
    next steps until the views of all were on record. (Comment:
    Delors did not address the fact that some countries, such as
    the UK, might prefer not to go on record. End Comment.)

    France's Identity Crisis
    ------------------------

    ¶6. (C) Delors said France was now in a peculiar situation --
    the French people are at once traumatised by their smaller
    role in the world and arrogant about their unique calling and
    ability to bring positive values to the world. The
    combination of this traumatism and arrogance, he said, made
    for a poisonous schizophrenia. He castigated as dangerous in
    particular those who "are tempted to exalt France's
    importance on the world scene." Unfortunately, he did not
    see a leader on the French political scene who could persuade
    the French people to abandon this delusional mindset in the
    interest of playing a more pragmatic, "useful" role in
    coordination with others, including the U.S. On the
    contrary, he expressed some concern that far-right
    politicians, through appeals to France's "post-Napoleonic
    reflex," would exacerbate the problem.

    Improving U.S.-French Relations
    -------------------------------

    ¶7. (C) Further to the question of the 2007 presidential
    election, Delors said that no matter what the result, he
    believed the next French president will want to improve
    relations with the U.S. "It's impossible to maintain the
    current situation," he said. He insisted that the Socialist
    Party (PS) was fundamentally pro-American and pro-European,
    "pro-Atlantic" in his term, as was Francois Bayrou's centrist
    party UDF (Democratic Union for France), despite the decision
    of many PS members to vote against the constitution and the
    leadership's use of what could be called an anti-American
    rhetoric in its campaigning and public declarations.

    ¶8. (C) Delors insisted throughout the meeting that the U.S.
    and EU needed to work as partners, and not as rivals, to
    address the challenges of the twenty-first century, citing in
    particular the emergence of China. He saw a need for the
    U.S. to "pay more attention" to the mood in Europe, without
    giving undue consideration to public opinion polls and the
    media. Saying that "Europe is not as ill as it appears,"
    Delors also expressed the hope, while acknowledging it was
    difficult, that U.S. politicians would become cognizant of
    the EU's potential.
    Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm

    Stapleton

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