Is Europe Again Starting to Like Its American Cousin?

Is Europe Again Starting to Like Its American Cousin?

LONDON -- Only moments after takeoff on a flight from Amsterdam to London, everyone on board, it seemed, had disappeared into a newspaper. With front pages from across Europe held aloft, a glance down the aisle showed one story dominated the news that day in dailies across the region, with another piece of news coming in a close second. Almost every front page showed a picture of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Not far below the news from Denver, most papers featured unsettling news about Russia and the possibility of a new Cold War.

Once again, America and Europe stand on the same side of an international conflict. Once again, Europeans are finding inspiration from across the ocean.

Europeans are excited about America's elections. The painful wound from that once-festering dispute over the war in Iraq is starting to look like an old scar. And the combination of American politics and world events has reaffirmed the commonalities in the world views of Americans and Europeans.

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