“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.” Has BeensFactsOpportunityGivenNationsProcessStepsTakenEuropeGood ThingsUnionsZoneSolidarityDefectsGreeceEuro Author:George Papandreou
“There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.” WayKindFactsGovernmentProcessMembersEuropeMinistersCabinetsConfirmation Author:Mario Monti
“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.” TryingFirstsFactsFoundTakenImagineEuropePerformancesLondonNakedShockedStatuesUlyssesHawthorne Book:The Last Novel Source: The Last Novel
“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.” MenImportantFactsAmericaCoursesLiteratureSimpleDependsEuropeExplanation Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.” WellsStillsRealFactsMightPoliticalInterestEuropeLaysFranceDivisionRealisingCampsColleaguesStrategicFascistsReluctantAffinity Book:Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs Source: Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs
“National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.” PeopleIfsMadeWarStatesFactsWould BeWantedWishSimpleLeaderGreaterEuropeGermanyRulersSocialistDistressRecogniseNo War Author:Adolf Hitler
“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.” DoneFactsResultsDestinyDoubtPlansFailurePoliticianProjectsIntellectualEuropeFinalsScalesPlanningVanityInevitableClassicDamageMonumentUtopiaProgrammesUtopianUnified Author:Margaret Thatcher