US-European Relations at Their Worst Since End of World War II

That's what I just heard on the BBC News distributed through Public Radio International, citing that although the US is touting Bush's meeting with German head Andrea Merkel (after years of chilly relations with Schroeder), more than 50% of Germans think the meeting is a very bad idea AND that relations between the US and Europe haven't been this chilly since World War II.

OK, that surprised me!