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“It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.”

Europe Iraq Divided

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.”

Want Europe Divided Entry Croatia

Author:Stjepan Mesic

“America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.”

America Europe Argument Divided

Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

“History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.”

People World Years Long Two Force Wall Europe Years Ago Overcoming Moved East Germany Iron Divided Yearning Dictator Eastern Curtains Unleashed Eastern Europe East Germany Iron Curtain

Author:Angela Merkel

“In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.”

People Way Kind Country Reason Care Social Interest Race Europe Universal Democratic Western Jew Health Care Corporate Usa Divided Ethnicity Universal Health Care Race And Ethnicity

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.”

Ifs Order Technology Solutions Europe West East Germany Maps Divided Verdict Begin Again East And West

Author:Lech Walesa

“We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.”

World Giving America Enjoy Support Television Europe India Give Me China Divided

Author:Shimon Peres

“The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.”

Country Interest Struggle Economic Europe Performances Rate Burden Wide Germany Divided Ireland Consumption Spain Housing Belts Interest Rate Creditors Debtors Divergence Reunification

Author:George Soros

“The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.”

Firsts Two Goal Democracy Our Lives Growing Development Europe Various Eras Borders Barriers Divided Regulation Phases Integration Treaties Removal Standardization European Integration

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”

Knows Men World Young Community Cities Middle Summer Europe East Young Man Tension Divided Middle East Eastern Instability Eastern Europe Missouri American Cities Ferguson

Author:Barack Obama

“E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.”

Needs Important Together Century Achievement Europe Working Together Divided Contrast Protected Continents

Author:Barack Obama

“The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.”

“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.”

“The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.”

Moving Black Attention Sea Europe Areas South Divided Southern Location Asia Viruses Balkans South Asia

Author:David Nabarro