At last, European allies could be forgiven for thinking, Britain's Atlanticist obsession is unravelling.
An apprentice of Mr Kohl, for whom Franco-German reconciliation was a historic mission, Mrs Merkel is a strong Atlanticist.
There is also a suspicion that Mr Hoon's plans will reflect penny-pinching as much as strategy, Atlanticist or otherwise.
But Warburg was also a staunch Atlanticist and an early prophet of globalisation.
The countries of central Europe and the governments of Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark are also in the Atlanticist camp.
He was a champion of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Atlanticist cause long after it had gone out of fashion.
The decision to help out in Afghanistan is the clearest sign so far that Mr Sarkozy is prepared to back his Atlanticist words with deeds.
But it is certainly an annoying one for Atlanticist cheese lovers.
Because while it is true that Gerhard Schroder, the undercredited architect of the German model, was a Third Way liberal, he was not working from the same playbook as his Atlanticist counterparts.
She had been one of the first political leaders to recognise the significance of climate change and, despite her Atlanticist instincts and staunch patriotism, she had "participated in one of the most profound periods of European integration".
It was as foreign minister in the 1990s that Mr Barroso staked out his position as an Atlanticist, arguing that Portugal was bound by geography and history to maintain strong links with Britain and the United States.
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