#pre

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #european #growth #implementing #level

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #analysis #automatic #believed #costs

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #china #costs #countries #demographic

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#budget #chirac #contrary #demanded #european

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#common #common people #history #memory #past

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time. ↗

— David Brainerd

#be careful #careful #good #improvement #make

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#ago #arab #arab world #asking #bush

We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little maddening, but fun. We shot pretty much the ending of the two movies the other day. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

#been #books #day #ending #fun

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #commonly #conflicts #connections #expression

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#experience #go #place #prescriptions #you