So Much for Mending Fences in Europe

By John F. Harris and Lori Montgomery

Wednesday, September 7, 2005; Page A06

Since winning a second term, President Bush has made four trips to Europe, where his first-term policies on Iraq and other issues made him the most unpopular U.S. president in recent decades. Now comes new evidence at what all this fence-mending has won him with average Europeans: nothing.

A new poll taken in 10 European countries, as well as the United States, shows that Bush's foreign policy is just as unpopular across the Atlantic as it was a year ago.