Charlemagne Christopher Patten

摘要

When Henry Kissinger, as America's secretary of state, wanted to telephone his equivalent in Europe, he once gibed, he didn't have a number to call. These days, Colin Powell has only too many: Javier Solana, a Spaniard and the eu's "high representative" for foreign and security policy; the foreign minister of whichever eu country currently holds its presidency (ie, this semester, Belgium's Louis Michel); or maybe Chris Patten, the British commissioner for external affairs.