Resident Scholar Leon Aron

This week President George W. Bush is traveling to Europe for the first time since September 11. In Poland, America's coalition partner in the liberation of Iraq, the president will sketch a vision of a new relationship with Europe. The atmosphere may be cooler to the East, where Bush will be hosted by Russia's less than helpful President Vladimir Putin. Bush will wrap up in old Europe at the G-8 summit in Evian-les-Bains, where he will be meeting with France's president Jacques Chirac and Germany's chancellor Gerhard Schröder for the first time since the Iraq war. Will fences be mended with France and Germany? Can the G-8 governments head off the breakdown of the Cancun round of trade liberalization talks and restart global growth? On the morning of President Bush's departure, please join us for this briefing with AEI scholars Richard Perle, Claude E. Barfield, Leon Aron and Radek Sikorski.