Chirac, like any french politician, is worried about the costs of EU enlargement. If the Common Agricultural Policy is changed to make more money available to the new EU members then french farmers will be amongst the losers. They have a powerful lobby that few french politicians would willingly upset. So this is more Chirac trying to put the new EU members in their place than about Iraq or foreign policy.
The US administration is suffering a similar problem, the message that goes down well domestically upsets the rest of the world.
The US administration is suffering a similar problem, the message that goes down well domestically upsets the rest of the world.
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