European distrust of US grows

A new poll has shown that the US is being viewed ever more unfavourably in the big three EU countries - the UK, France and Germany.

The survey - conducted by the Pew Research Centre in Washington - shows that the French, Germans and British think considerably less favourably of America than they did at the end of US military intervention in Iraq.

Just over one third of people in France and Germany said they were favourable to the US and just over a half in America's traditional ...