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EU names first ambassador to Arab League
2006-07-05
CAIRO - The European Union (EU) has named its first ambassador to the Arab League to facilitate its surrender boost cooperation between the organizations, the two sides said on Tuesday.

Klaus Ebermann, currently head of the European Commission delegation in Egypt, has been appointed ambassador and made “the official responsible for relations with the Arab League”, the European Comission said. “With today’s development, the European Commission and Arab League will reinvigorate and broaden the scope of their collaboration by establishing a larger platform to identify and implement new areas of cooperation,” it said.
The new cooperative venture will be named, 'Eurabia'.
Relations between the Cairo-based Arab League and the European Commission were formalized in 1984. The League is an observer in the Barcelona process, a Euro-Mediterranean partnership, while the European Commission has participated in two Arab summits in 2005 and 2006.
Posted by:Steve White

#12  Ah would't venture to say, mem.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-07-05 21:55  

#11  Truly, gromgoru? Kewl! Is it anything like the trouble I had the first time I met people from Tennessee? (I'm from Buffalo, New York, y'see.)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-05 19:24  

#10  Hey TW, Gaza Paleos and Judea/Samaria Paleos have problems understanding each others' dialects.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-07-05 18:17  

#9  I did not realize that, Anginens Threreng8133 -- thanks! Although Mr. Wife did mention once that his Moroccan colleagues had to speak to his Arabic-speaking colleagues in French or English, because although they could read Arabic, they could not speak it in a way understandable to the Egyptians. I wonder if it's similar to the various Western languages all using the Latin alphabet?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-05 17:30  

#8  And the north-american hockey league would blast them to smithereens!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-05 08:31  

#7  An Arab league that sounds interesting. But I think its teams are no match for tose in the NFL or AFL.
Posted by: JFM   2006-07-05 07:09  

#6  Wait a minute! Few Arab speakers identify themselves a "Arabs." The Euros are condoning cultural genocide by recognizing what is a Saudi organ of aggression.

Totally exact, this latest ongoing "3rd jihad" is accompanied by an arabization of non-arab muslim cultures as well, with the help of the West, which indeed amounts to a cultural genocide. The only globalization going on is not the western one...
This is not new, during french colonization of the area that would later became Algeria, arab names and language were enforced on the berbers IIUC (JFM will be much more knowledgeable about this), a trend which has only been strenghtened by the national-islamists ruling the country since independence.

I remember a very moving RB article by a somalui writer about how somali culture was slowly erased by arab customs and arab islam imported from the Gulf, and I also read here a related article on the arabisation of Malaysia.

This is madness, as we're de facto enabling our ennemies. But, then again, acknowledging the supremacy of arab culture is at the heart of the eurabian process and its equivalent in the anglosaxon world.
Remember, arabs have one HUGE quality : they've got plenty of petrodollars...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-05 05:35  

#5  Wait a minute! Few Arab speakers identify themselves a "Arabs." The Euros are condoning cultural genocide by recognizing what is a Saudi organ of aggression.

By the way, am I the only one here who is aware that until American University (Beirut) promoted an Arabic uniformist program throughout proto-Arabia, the average Arabic speaker could only communicate with about one in five of nominal "Arabs"? Social engineering is a double edged sword.
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-05 05:20  

#4  by birds you must mean Vultures.

Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-07-05 01:15  

#3  "Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near...?"
Posted by: Ernest Brown   2006-07-05 01:06  

#2  The Greater Arabia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-07-05 00:20  

#1  It should make the payment of tribute to the Arab League much smoother.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-07-05 00:18  

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