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What, no mention of Lebanon?

By the way, Balkenende who seems to be the runner-up in this race so far, also supported Israel's war in 2006 and was, with Blair, responsible for the EU's failure to attempt to stop that war from escalating. By the way, guess who has troops stationed in Lebanon right now... France, Italy and Spain mostly, that's who.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 14th, 2009 at 05:34:51 AM EST
Of the alternative candidates, I indeed like Balkenende the least. He domestic record isn't that flashy either, be it the coalition partners he picked, the xenophoby light, or 'reforms'.

As for the others, I grumbled about this for a while, but I may have one problem with Mary Robinson, too: does she speak other languages than English? I wish a chairman of the European Council would speak at least a Romanesque language.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Oct 14th, 2009 at 06:03:23 AM EST
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According to Wikipedia, she is fluent in Irish. I don't think that will be much use in the EU, though....
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Oct 14th, 2009 at 06:14:01 AM EST
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