And the dreamers? Ah, the dreamers! They were and they are the true realists, we owe them the best ideas and the foundations of modern Europe(...). The first President of that Commission, Walter Hallstein, a German, said: "The abolition of the nation is the European idea!" - a phrase that dare today's President of the Commission, nor the current German Chancellor would speak out. And yet: this is the truth.
Ulrike Guérot & Robert Menasse
quarta-feira, novembro 30, 2005
Representações do Porto
Cidade do Porto, dedicada ao Brigadeiro Sir Nicolao Trant, George Balck, 1813
Cais da ribeira do Porto no início do último quartel do século XIX
Paisagem do Douro, Simão César Dórdio Gomes, 1936.
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