"Now that the financial crisis and its repercussions on economy basically come from a lack or deficiency of rules on the US markets, our job is to work side by side with the United States", "as well as with the other world powers", to "give ourselves new rules, suitable for a new economy": Joseph Daul, leader of the People’s Party in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, comments the US vote, reflecting on the economic emergencies, and re-proposes the "Sarkozy method", which established a close cooperation with Bush’s administration in this sense. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Grahman Watson, states instead that, "as a nominee, Obama had promised to put an end to the divisions between the Americans, and between America and the international community: now that he has been elected president, all he has to do is to fulfil these promises". "A nice and great epoch-making moment", "not just for the United States". This is the comment of Francis Wurtz, president of the Unitarian Left Party in the EU Parliament, recalling that the election of an "Afro-American" as president has happened "just about forty years after the hard fight for civil rights" in America. According to Wurtz, Obama has successfully "embodied the powerful will of change" of the Americans.
