“Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.” StatesEnergyChristianityDemocracyExampleRevolutionEuropeUnionsPostsOrthodoxCatholicismLinksPotSovietLocationOrangeUkraineMeltingTransportationEuropean UnionMelting PotOrthodox Christianity Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.” PeopleShouldIdeasTodayExampleEuropePlatesNew IdeasOld Ideas Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun
“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.” IfsThinkingReasonAbleForeverExampleTrainingEuropeRelationStartingInternationalConvictionGermanyEmpiresHistorianSovietEasternInternational RelationsStarting PointMoscowEastern Europe Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.” IfsTwoSecretToo MuchCarExampleEuropeOilGuidesFuelExpensiveEfficientCoping Author:Paul Krugman
“I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.” PeopleI CanHumorAmericaPoliticalTalkingExampleGreatnessEuropePolitical HumorTrue GreatnessGreatness Of America Author:George W. Bush
“For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.” ImportantCuttingExampleEuropeFinalsCinemaMarvellousImportant Words Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.” KnowsWantWellsStatesLawUnitedPartyAttentionUnited StatesInformationExamplePoliticianBenefitsEuropeGreenContactFormerMinistersGermanyTrendsDiverseSecretaryAsiaEmissionsAdvisorsFischerMadeleinesGreen Party Author:Norbert Reithofer
“Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.” GovernmentChallengesCrazyExamplePeriodsEuropeCrisisObligationMentalityPenniesConfrontingGood ExamplesDrive Me CrazyPinching Author:Martin Schulz
“In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.” LittlesAmericaBitsExampleCoupleLittle BitEuropeHip HopHipsFranceGermanyHopsUrbanNorth AmericaUrban Music Author:K-Maro
“On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.” WorldShouldCountryPlayHandsValuesIndividualSocialRolesModernExampleEvolutionEuropeTradeUnionsWesternChinaIntegratedTrade UnionsSocial Values Author:Zhang Xin
“Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.” IfsWantHeartCountryHateStrongExampleEuropeSettingSettingsGreekGermanyBitterness Author:Yanis Varoufakis
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.” SometimesHardShowsExampleHard WorkEuropeDecadesTake TimeReconciliation Author:Paul Kagame
“All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.” ExampleTaxesEvidenceEuropeBritainMigrants Author:Tony Blair