#eu

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. ↗

— Mel Gussow

#connoisseur #laughter #often #though

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#among #began #discussions #europeans #found

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#beyond #completely #european #european governments #failed

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #down #estimate #europe #magnitude

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#blonde hair #bus #europe #hair #i

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. ↗

— William Hague

#burning #countries #described #euro #exits

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#agencies #brussels #bureaucracies #cabinet #campaign

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. ↗

— William Hague

#eu #feel #many #over #people

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. ↗

— William Hague

#decided #decision-making #eu #european #everything