Foreign Policy:
The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech
David Mitchell:
If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap.
Richard Laming
It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the treaty are the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quotes of the week’
Quotes of the week (VIII)
Quotes of the Week (VII)
… ok, “week” as in “last 12 weeks”… and as you can see a rather short and subjective list…
Neil MacFarlane
We may be living post-historically. Russia is not.
Russia Today
Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections.
Mark Danner
If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame?
Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is nice, boring and irrelevant. In many ways this is a [...]
Quotes of the week (V)
Just a reminder: there were actually European Parliament elections last week…
Francisco G. Basterra (El Pais)
Global Vote, local mindset.
Lykke Friis
The EU elections are like a European soccer championship played in each national league with aggregated results.
Evenimentul Zilei
Send in the Clowns.
NikOs
To the 57% of Europeans: Not voting and at the same time speaking about a [...]
Quotes of the week (III)
What have we learnt this week?
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen:
I would have preferred the PES to have a candidate for the President of the European Commission, but we do not, and we will not before the elections.
Andrew Moravcsik:
Final anecdote: On my way back out to Heathrow I quizzed the cabby about the European elections. Exceptionally, [...]
Quotes of the week (II)
Another post in this neglected “wannabe series“.
“I don’t want to run auto companies, and I don’t want to run banks. I’ve got two wars I’ve got to run already – I’ve got more than enough to do.” Barack Obama (via euromatt)
At first sight the idea of centre-right communists sounds as odd as “moderate Trotskyites” or [...]
