Posts with Comments by Herman

Eurabia ascendant?

  • one of the 'launching' articles of this idea : see http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3058 
    It embarks on the two notions about the Union : the continent sees it as a political project to inhibit war, where the french think about a centralised organisation, but britain sees it moer as a kind of commonwhealt, an economic union. By mixing the two views (british ambitions of including a turkish market vs continental ambitions of creating a politicial vehicle) the eurasia article shows a normal thinking pattern.
  • A Spanish coincidence?

  • ...raised in netherlands... : actually, born and raised in Ghent, Belgium.
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