Most Europeans support Barack Obama in his handling of foreign affairs, but the US president’s popularity has failed to erode US-European differences over the Afghan war and Iran’s nuclear programme, according to a report published on Wednesday.
The annual Transatlantic Trends survey, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, showed that 77 per cent of respondents in the European Union and Turkey backed Mr Obama’s conduct of foreign policy, compared with 19 per cent for George W. Bush, his predecessor, in 2008, the final year of his two-term presidency.
