Friday, December 30th, 2005
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,655
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Re: Austria 'fed up' with EU as it takes on presidency
Among other things, it looks as if Austria has a good historical memory with regards to the Ottoman Empire / modern Turkey.
Unlike Greece which endorsed Turkey's bid to membership of the E.U. in 1999 during the summit of Helsinki, and has ever since been supportive of it.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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