Media attention has focused recently on the French and U.S. governments' disagreements on a number of foreign policy issues over the past year, including NATO command structure, NATO enlargement decisions and policy toward Iran and Iraq. This just-completed USIA poll in France shows that while the public seems slightly more critical of the U.S., support for NATO has not eroded.
United States Information Agency. Office of Research and Media Reaction. Despite Turbulent Period, Opinion of NATO Constant in France. By Anna E. Sweeney. Washington, D.C.: May 18, 1998. (Opinion Analysis M-80-98). National Archives Identifier: 5707764 & 7710349.