The rhetoric was sharpened in the new transatlantic political and legal spat yesterday - just days after a trade war over steel was averted.
There was sharp criticism of the US government's decision to award lucrative Iraqi reconstruction contracts to only those countries with troops in the country from the European Commission and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
A spokesman for the European Commission said that contracts should be awarded on the basis of international law an...
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