You may recall in October I reported that the EU's Commissioner for External Affairs, Chris Patten, traveled to America with quite an interesting offer. Patten actually appeared to offer the United States all the kingdoms of the world. Here's what I wrote:

Quoting directly from the Euobserver, "He (Chris Patten) thus suggested a model in which the US could be the leading participant in a system of co-operative global governance" (http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=9&aid=7806).

The following June the EU's High Representative, Javier Solana, presented his new security doctrine to the EU heads. And, as I've been reporting, the amazing thing about Solana's new doctrine was how everybody loved it. Even the states who had been quarreling loved it, such as Germany and the US.

Just a  few days after Solana presented his new doctrine Solana and some of the EU heads went to Washington for the EU/US summit. At this summit an important treaty was signed. According to the reports, the new agreement allowed the EU and the US to work closer together to combat terror groups, weapons of mass destruction and rogue states.  

In other words, it looked like the EU had made that offer of all the kingdoms of the world to the US again at the US/EU summit. And, this time the EU's offer was accepted.

But, what exactly did the Bush administration accept? The reports that are now coming out suggest Bush may have actually secretly signed on to an agreement that would subject American citizens to EU laws and EU courts (Read about it here).   

Solana titled his new security doctrine, A Secure Europe in a Better World.

Now Solana's better world may be closer than we think.