Fromage, not buckwheat

The next annual summit meeting between the EU and the US is tentatively scheduled to take place at the end of June. It is Europe's turn to host the meeting and since Slovenia will have the EU presidency then, the likelihood is that the meeting would take place in Ljubljana.
But it seems that the US are not such enthusiasts for Ljubljana, though it is where US President George W. Bush met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin back in 2001. Officials in Washington are allegedly pushing for the annual shindig to be delayed. That way it would fall under the French presidency and the venue would become Paris. There was a time when US officials would readily have stomached carb-heavy Slovenian specialities such as štruklji (dough stuffed with a variety of fillings) or žganci (boiled buckwheat) in a bid to avoid the French, whom they regarded as cheese-eating surrender monkeys. But since then the French have had a change of president and the US has had a change of heart. So Sarko is regarded as a big fromage – certainly bigger than Danilo Türk, who takes over the Slovenian presidency on Sunday (23 December).