Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Bush Heads to Eastern Europe as Mood Shifts."
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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Bush Heads to Eastern Europe as Mood Shifts."
President Bush starts a weeklong trip to Eastern Europe Monday, still popular in the region but under pressure because of Russia's efforts to regain influence and a U.S. failure to deliver on some commitments.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili summed up the attitude of many Eastern Europeans at an Oval Office meeting this month when he gushed over Mr. Bush's support for their political and economic development. [...]
"There's starting to be a little disillusionment with this relationship," says Julianne Smith, an expert on Europe at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We're starting to see these accusations: 'Here's a country that takes and takes and takes, and never gives.'"
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