"(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.
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“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
“I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.”
“Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”
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“We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.”
“I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.”
“I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.”