Loja de Ideias

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

quinta-feira, maio 06, 2010

Gordon Brown's Last Hope...

... é que mais pessoas sigam o exemplo de Charlie Whitaker:

“So there I was, all ready to convert my well formed pro-Liberal Democrat voting intention into a mark on the ballot paper, when this strange mist descended, and all I could think was: is there any way - any way at all - to stop this place going Tory? So I went for the Labour guy instead”.