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Quotes of the week (VIII)

By Kosmopolit | Published: October 21, 2009
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 [...]
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Quotes of the Week (VII)

By Kosmopolit | Published: October 3, 2009
… 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 [...]
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Quotes of the Week (VI)

By Kosmopolit | Published: July 21, 2009
Richard Laming (Federal Union Blog) The powers that the EU ought to have are those that the member states cannot exercise effectively on their own: no more and no less. Nosemonkey: the EU’s “democratic deficit”[...] is actually preserving the sovereignty of the member states. Jean Quatremer: (Solana) L’homme qui “parle toutes les langues sans qu’on [...]
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Quotes of the week (V)

By Kosmopolit | Published: June 13, 2009
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 [...]
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Quotes of the week (IV)

By Kosmopolit | Published: May 25, 2009
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen: In 2004 Barroso was a compromise candidate, in 2009 he is a compromised candidate. Daily Mail’s Chief Leader Writer We couldn’t report on what is going on in Europe, and no paper can because the readers won’t wear it. It is simply not conceivable that we would cover, for example, the European [...]
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Quotes of the week (III)

By Kosmopolit | Published: May 16, 2009
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 [...]
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Quotes of the week (II)

By Kosmopolit | Published: April 30, 2009
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 [...]
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Quotes of the week

By Kosmopolit | Published: November 14, 2008
Although the title suggests a weekly feature I doubt that I would find something every week. To be honest I just could not come up with a better title … so here we go with some remarkable statements: via Times Online I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared. Mr Sarkozy [...]
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