Romney Reportedly Considering Foreign-Policy Tour Mitt Romney, who is planning to travel to Israel and London this summer, is now also considering stops in Germany and Poland, according to a report in Politico. If he were to go through with those plans, it would create an itinerary that would seem intended to highlight places where Mr. Romney feels he can draw substantive distinctions going forward with President Obama on foreign policy. That has been a struggle for Mr. Romney on some key issues, such as when to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. Foreign policy has taken a back seat in this election to debates over domestic economic problems. And while national security is often the strong electoral hand of the G.O.P. candidate, Mr. Obama has polled well on those issues, leaving his challenger less space to stake out a different course. But some analysts say Mr. Romney still needs to do a better job articulating how his foreign policy would tangibly differ from the current White House approach. Romney officials declined comment on the trip, but people inside the campaign had been discussing a plan to travel to Germany to meet with the chancellor, Angela Merkel, after Mr. Romney stops in London for the Olympics. According to people close to the campaign, such a trip, if it ultimately happens, would give Mr. Romney an opportunity to discuss the European economic crisis with Ms. Merkel, who backs an austerity program that includes government spending cuts to resolve Europe's debt crisis. The Obama administration has been critical of such austerity plans and public spending cuts at a time when spending by consumers and businesses is depressed, favoring instead policies designed to spur growth to get European economies back on track. Mr. Obama's approach in Europe has in turn drawn fire from one of Mr. Romney's top economic advisers, suggesting how the two parties may have the same sort of austerity-versus-stimulus argument this fall over Europe as they will over United States fiscal policy. Mr. Romney's campaign is also debating stopping in Poland, according to Politico. A visit there would give Mr. Romney an opportunity to hammer Mr. Obama for his decision three years ago to scrap a George W. Bush-era proposed antiballistic missile shield in Eastern Europe, and create instead a system to shoot down short- and medium-range Iranian missiles. White House officials have said their shield would better protect United States allies, but Mr. Romney says Mr. Obama killed an important program with no concessions from Russia.