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Mr Blair, for all his political qualities and purportedly pro-European views, has never been a comfortable operator on the EU stage.

An ambassador (from a pro-European country) says the combination of majority voting and co-decision could be a "very dangerous process" .

This ostensibly pro-European leader abandoned the opportunity to enhance Britain's influence in and through Europe.

Modern Ukraine is split between a pro-European west and centre, and a more pro-Russian east.

Gordon Brown delivered his most pro-European speech to date as he sought to gain transatlantic consensus ahead of next week's G20 summit.

And coalition with the (more pro-European) Liberal Democrats reduces the power of Tory rebels, who lack a single, charismatic leader.

Pro-European Germans say that Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that theirs has become just another normal European country.

To David Cameron's new government, even with the pro-European Liberal Democrats on board, the very idea may sound fantastical.

Yet the opposition Social Democrats essentially pursued the same policies as before, only with more pro-European conviction.

The pro-European and pro-American big bourgeoisie may continue to resist Japan, but its proneness to conciliation remains serious.

Fearing a hostile reception, the pro-European president, Boris Tadic, had contrived to spend the day in Romania.

As for the Greeks, they too have counted among the most ardently pro-European people in the Union.

"Finland had the image of being a strongly pro-European party, and it will now be regarded rather differently, " says Mr Saukkonen.

"You now have in the core of Europe two leaders that are Atlanticists and are also pro-European Union, " Kupchan said.

His arrival in the cabinet could mark a more pro-European flavour to the government.

A veteran of German unification, he is the leading pro-European in the cabinet.

French tourist Jacques Tacquoi is also pro-European Union.