Comments on: EU’s midlife crisis b-day and the downfall of orange http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/ A fresh look at the thorns between the USA and the EU Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:22:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: J_Book http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-8 J_Book Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:52:23 +0000 http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-8 @Home412AD Tragic, dreadful comment sprung out from a mind incapable of reasoning outside self-imposed frameworks for mental safety. The 1700's might have been a good century for you to display your ignorance. But then again, you would have been faced and sanctioned by some brilliant minds who lived during that period of time. Like Voltaire, for example. Your comment is totally out of place and it shows that Allan Bloom was once more extremely accurate in his analysis from "The Closing of the American Mind". A book you have probably never read. Or if you have, you have understood abolutely nothing of. The New European doesn't post comments on this blog because he/she has nothing else to do during sparetime. They are solidly documented, dearing and provocative in reasoning and have nothing of the stereoryping simplistic frame you read the world through. Read some more PS and IR books before displaying your lack of knowledge on matters of politics. @Home412AD

Tragic, dreadful comment sprung out from a mind incapable of reasoning outside self-imposed frameworks for mental safety. The 1700’s might have been a good century for you to display your ignorance. But then again, you would have been faced and sanctioned by some brilliant minds who lived during that period of time. Like Voltaire, for example.

Your comment is totally out of place and it shows that Allan Bloom was once more extremely accurate in his analysis from “The Closing of the American Mind”.

A book you have probably never read. Or if you have, you have understood abolutely nothing of.

The New European doesn’t post comments on this blog because he/she has nothing else to do during sparetime. They are solidly documented, dearing and provocative in reasoning and have nothing of the stereoryping simplistic frame you read the world through.

Read some more PS and IR books before displaying your lack of knowledge on matters of politics.

]]> By: The New European http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-6 The New European Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:38:42 +0000 http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-6 I suppose this is what you call an "honest", "direct statement of firm opinion" - that EU enlargement has been an economic disaster. In fact, it has been a great success. The growth of the French and German economies in the past 2 years are mainly due to the exports on the Eastern European markets. And to the opening of new producing locations on European soil, not in China.. I'm not making this stuff up, here is what the EU Commission stated in 2006: "Two years later, the biggest enlargement ever of the European Union is an economic success: the 10 new Member Statesà€™ economies are growing at a rapid pace enabling them to progressively bridge the gap with their richer neighbours. But the latter also win as the increase of the EUà€™s single market by 75 million to 450 million inhabitants brings a wealth of trade and investment opportunities. More importantly, enlargement has acted as a force of modernisation in the EU as a whole à€“ a timely force given the sudden emergence on the world scene of China and India." But i guess your haven't caught up with the news since the 1700s.. It's ok. Read us more often, you might find out that the world is changing faster than you think. I suppose this is what you call an “honest”, “direct statement of firm opinion” - that EU enlargement has been an economic disaster. In fact, it has been a great success. The growth of the French and German economies in the past 2 years are mainly due to the exports on the Eastern European markets. And to the opening of new producing locations on European soil, not in China..
I’m not making this stuff up, here is what the EU Commission stated in 2006:
“Two years later, the biggest enlargement ever of the European Union is an economic success: the 10 new Member Statesà€™ economies are growing at a rapid pace enabling them to progressively bridge the gap with their richer neighbours. But the latter also win as the increase of the EUà€™s single market by 75 million to 450 million inhabitants brings a wealth of trade and investment opportunities. More importantly, enlargement has acted as a force of modernisation in the EU as a whole à€“ a timely force given the sudden emergence on the world scene of China and India.”
But i guess your haven’t caught up with the news since the 1700s.. It’s ok. Read us more often, you might find out that the world is changing faster than you think.

]]> By: Home412AD http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-3 Home412AD Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:18:03 +0000 http://www.transatlanticpolitics.com/2007/03/24/eus-midlife-crisis-b-day-and-the-downfall-of-orange/#comment-3 I have no idea what this commentary means. It is not analysis, because it makes only unsupported and emotional assertions, allegations, innuendos and implications. There is not a single honest, direct statement of firm opinion in the whole work, only hints and hidden secrets. There is no conclusion stated, only dire implications and colored, slanted speculations. The essay suffers from a stark lack of facts, and an utter absence of practicality. EU enlargement has been an economic disaster, nearly destroying the Union with the inclusion of feudal East European states living in the 1700s, with ignorant, primitive peasants traveling by horse-drawn wagons, swarming over civilized Europe like rats chewing their way into a storehouse of grain. The image of Europeans wanting even more parasitical primitives from out of the 1700s is hilariously absurd. No competent analyst would ever think something so detached from the reality of international affairs. Folk who do that to earn a living need to be sensible, something the writer of this essay does not appear to comprehend. The piece is more sad in its delusional nature than anything else. I have no idea what this commentary means. It is not analysis, because it makes only unsupported and emotional assertions, allegations, innuendos and implications. There is not a single honest, direct statement of firm opinion in the whole work, only hints and hidden secrets. There is no conclusion stated, only dire implications and colored, slanted speculations.

The essay suffers from a stark lack of facts, and an utter absence of practicality. EU enlargement has been an economic disaster, nearly destroying the Union with the inclusion of feudal East European states living in the 1700s, with ignorant, primitive peasants traveling by horse-drawn wagons, swarming over civilized Europe like rats chewing their way into a storehouse of grain. The image of Europeans wanting even more parasitical primitives from out of the 1700s is hilariously absurd.

No competent analyst would ever think something so detached from the reality of international affairs. Folk who do that to earn a living need to be sensible, something the writer of this essay does not appear to comprehend. The piece is more sad in its delusional nature than anything else.

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