From the Wall Street Journal: The White House has decided that President Barack Obama will not attend what has been an annual summit with the European Union this spring, as Mr. Obama scales back from his record-setting foreign travel last year…

The decision to skip the EU summit will likely disappoint many Europeans, especially in Spain, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, which expected to host the summit in Madrid in May. It may also feed fears that Mr. Obama views the EU as irrelevant. Most Americans, though, are unfamiliar with the meeting.

A European foreign minister said he was told that the U.S. might reschedule the session for this fall, when Mr. Obama plans to travel to Portugal for a NATO summit. Another possibility is to invite Europeans to Washington for a session this spring. U.S. officials didn’t say what, if anything, they are planning in place of the summit…

Officials have said he might go to Europe again to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty if an agreement is reached. (photo: European Commission)