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Re: you describe the situation well (none / 1)

I take this comment as an insult. You are not correct in what you say about the last thread you are referring to - where the 'facts' you consider to be decided, are, as far as I know, still open.

I shall say no more.

I pray for a good dose of wisdom to be sprinkled around this site.

by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 03:31:14 PM EST
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Re: you describe the situation well (none / 1)

That's how your presentation often comes across to me as well: big nasty stupid EU bullying heroic wise little Norway. That might not be how you mean it to come across, but there you are.

It's as bad as Jérôme and his occasional outbursts of French nationalism.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 03:45:51 PM EST
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Re: you describe the situation well (none / 1)

I am fully aware that what I say may be misinterpreted in this way - so I refrain from commenting, most of the time.

by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 04:23:56 PM EST
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except that (none / 0)

my "occasional outbursts of French nationalism" are rather tempered by criticism of the same elsewhere. I don't think I've ever seen Norway described as anything other than the most perfect place ever, oppressed by the callous EU bureaucracy (I know you did not say "callous" any more thna you said "evil" - it sounded like both, to my naive ears) but fighting valiantly onwards.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 04:37:00 PM EST
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Re: except that (none / 1)

Norway gets a lot right, and a lot wrong.

The fact that solveig has chosen to live in Scotland for the majority of her life is inconsistent with your caricature.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 04:55:30 PM EST
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Re: you describe the situation well (none / 0)

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 03:55:15 PM EST
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