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2003-02-19 Europe
Australia blind to new world order, EU warns
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Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 10:18 am|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 One might think the Vilnius Group would be having second thoughts right about now.
Posted by Dishman  2003-02-19 08:21:05||   2003-02-19 08:21:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Australia is an agricultural exporter. Like the U.S. EU restrictions and tarriffs on imports in an effort to support their own (read French primarily) inefficient farmers are a big bone of contention. So the Aussie's want to sell direct to EU member states, bypassing the restrictions. Why should the people of Sofia pay more for food so that French farmers benefit?

And, living so far from the EU must be why the view that the EU is politically integrated as well as a single trading bloc doesn't cause them to fall on the floor laughing. The only thing representing EU unity is... well, I can't think of anything.
Posted by Chuck  2003-02-19 09:11:28|| [blog.simmins.org]  2003-02-19 09:11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "One might well get the impression that the EU is a command economy with bureaucrats engaged in making life hard for business,"

Well isn't that the European way?
Posted by tu3031 2003-02-19 09:13:41||   2003-02-19 09:13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The EU is being consistant in its bullying efforts to seperate America from her allies. "Divide and conquer" is a tactic that one uses against one's enemies.
Posted by Arthur Fleischman 2003-02-19 10:52:06|| [www.untoldmillions.com/weblog_page.htm]  2003-02-19 10:52:06|| Front Page Top

#5 When the EU members consolidate their embassies around the world and empty out some of those extra UN Ambassador seats then perhaps the Aussies will consider them a single country.
Posted by Yank 2003-02-19 12:14:41||   2003-02-19 12:14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow! This is like one of those movies where the aging, alcoholic film star goes into a series of public meltdowns, alienating old colleagues, new backers, and would-be proteges.

So, which ending will it be? Will the old gal's friends be able to bundle her off to the sanitarium in time? Or will she take the booze and pills express to oblivion? Maybe it'll be the fiery drunken crash off the edge of a cliff.

Get out your hankies. Who has the Milk Duds?
Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-02-19 12:57:08|| [darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2003-02-19 12:57:08|| Front Page Top

#7 "blind to the new political reality emerging in Europe." ..... No, absolutistic regimes are nothing new to Europe. What is new are liberal democracies, which, not surprisingly appear to be the enemies of the EU. They're practically calling the citizens of Europe wogs. I often wonder if the reluctance to admit Turkey is due to the fear that harmonization would be exposed as colonization when it can't hide behind European homogeny. The only thing that keeps me from cheering the removal of US troops from Germany is the fear of an EU military......go ahead laugh, but the rhetoric is already becoming delusional, think jEUche. That's just a little too much power for fascist in sheep's clothing, in my opinion.
Posted by dsaucer 2003-02-19 16:22:33||   2003-02-19 16:22:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Pull the subsidies from Aibus and Aerospacial and lets see just how long they stay competitive
Posted by Anonymous 2003-02-19 16:42:03||   2003-02-19 16:42:03|| Front Page Top

#9 ... Does this mean that France should surrender its seat to the EU, and Germany should remove itself entirely?
Posted by Dishman  2003-02-19 19:06:49||   2003-02-19 19:06:49|| Front Page Top

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