WILL HUTTON: “With all eyes fixed on the American presidential elections, the scale of the looming crisis in France and Germany has gone largely unremarked.”

Well, the blogosphere has been remarking on it. But Hutton hasn’t given up yet. And neither (quite) have I, though I suspect I differ from Hutton on many particulars. (Via Custos Morum).

UPDATE: Another election loss for Gerhard Schroeder. I guess anti-Bush sentiment isn’t enough to sustain a party.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Read this article on Europe’s foreign policy problems, too.

And David Carr has more thoughts about Hutton’s article.