"Old Europe"
"Old Europe"
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"Volker Ruehe, former German defence minister and normally a strong advocate of U.S. defence policy, said: "It's not right to play off Eastern Europe against Western Europe."
"Rumsfeld is not exactly a diplomat and it is not very wise to say something like that," said Ruehe, chairman of the German parliament's foreign policy committee.
Hans-Ulrich Klose, a Social Democrat in the German parliament, said: "It's unheard of. The Americans can't call nations a problem just because they don't share their view. The Americans shouldn't try to divide Europe into 'good' and 'not-so-good' Europeans."