“We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future” PastValuesEuropeRelationRemainsDecadesPartnersTradingOver The PastTrading Partners Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.” YearsHas BeensEndsAgeLastsAmericaDifferencesForgetSawsPlanetsEuropeClimateDecadesIceCovered1930sNorth AmericaIce Age Author:James Spann
“Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.” SometimesHardShowsExampleHard WorkEuropeDecadesTake TimeReconciliation Author:Paul Kagame
“The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.” WorldAmericaPoorEconomySourceFutureEuropeWesternEastDecadesDevelopingJapanLatinCarbonAsiaEasternReductionLatin AmericaEmissionsGreenhousesDwarfsDwarvesGreenhouse GasesEastern EuropeEruptionWestern EuropeCarbon EmissionsEast Asia Author:Ross Gelbspan
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesStatesPastNationsNumbersGrowingBloodCenturyReturnEuropeHistoricalDecadesFamiliarDemonSoilRhetoricOver The PastDeclaringJuncture Author:Martin Schulz
“A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.” MenWritingBookEuropeCrisisWorkersDecadesGenreRefugeePioneersMigrantsRefugee CrisisMigrant Workers Author:Adam Hochschild
“Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even that more limited role. Austerity, particularly in Europe, has added to the problem. It has not worked, even on its own terms.” ProblemGovernmentLastsTermRolesEconomicTheoryEuropeIncreaseDecadesMainstreamSkepticismAusterityEconomic Theory Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.” Has BeensLastsGrowthFiveCenturyPeriodsProjectsEuropeProsperityDecadesFrustration20th CenturyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.” PeopleWellsCountryHardCertainWealthDecisionCompanyGrowingRiskGroupsSharePolicySeriousConsequenceEuropeAdvantageIncreaseInvestmentPopulationDecadesNervousInequalityUncertaintyShyLionsUnemploymentSmall GroupsPopulistPostponing Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I believe that the mistakes that we made in Europe in the last decades by allowing so much mass immigration from Islamic countries is a warning that if Australia is not vigilant enough to preserve the freedom, what has happened here might happen to Australia in the next decades as well.” IfsBelieveWellsMadeCountryEnoughMightHappensLastsNextI BelieveMistakeHappenedMassEuropeDecadesImmigrationPreservesIslamicAustraliaAllowingWarningVigilant Author:Geert Wilders
“I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.” PeopleKnowsCountryReasonTodayLastsChangedEuropeDecadesEnormousIslamicOur Society Author:Geert Wilders
“Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.” PeopleHas BeensFightingInterestRealizingMiddleEuropeWestEastDecadesTerroristAcknowledgeOfficialsMiddle EastSyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.” ThinkingEconomyGrowingShareEuropeInvestmentChinaDecadesPartnersChineseBritainLionsRemedyTradingTrading Partners Author:George Osborne
“Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.” FirstsCountryTodayAmericaPoliticalCultureHavensMovementMajorsMassIntellectualEuropeWestWesternChinaDecadesWelcomeProtestEgypt1960sIndonesiaEruptionWestern EuropeBoliviaChurningOccupy MovementEurope And America Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.” PeopleLongTwoWarLostColdEuropeOvercomingDemocraticWesternDecadesPartnersRepublicCold WarIntegrationEasternEastern EuropeSteadfastnessLost HopeDemocratic Republic Author:Angela Merkel
“Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.” WorldTwoSelfWholeFallNextChallengesTakenShareWeaknessEuropeThirdsMeetingsComplexesDecadesLabourPhenomenonOutputCompetitivenessSelf Inflicted Author:David Cameron
“In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.” WorldLongTwoWarCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesLowsCapitalismEuropeRoseVery GoodProductionsFollowingDecadesRememberedWar Of The WorldsGood TimesStableUnemploymentSecond World WarKeynes Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.” PeopleMenLooksMayTwoWarCountryFactsLinesCitiesFrontsPrideColdCitizensEuropeWestSatisfactionDecadesPeacefulHopefulOne ManContinentsGlobesCold WarSoberBerlinFree ManIndivisibleWest Berlin Author:John F. Kennedy
“There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.” TurnsMillionsVictoryGunEuropeIslamDecadesGrantsContinentsConquest Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).” KnowsShouldFirstsHappensLastsKnownGenerationsResourcesEuropeDecadesEfficientOffspringAtheistic Author:Jonathan Haidt