“Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.” KnowsHardProblemNextGamesEasyGoalLevelsSunHappenedGroupsFootballTenEuropeFinalsInternationalIsraelCoachesBlockFranceSoccerRanAnalysisChampionshipEuroQualifyingCyprusMalta Author:Martin Samuel
“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.” YearsFallPassionHappenedEuropeWesternWestern Europe Author:William Pfaff
“That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.” WorldWarViewsHappenedEuropeWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IWaging War Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.” KindCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicAnxietyEuropeIslamLandscapeThrown Author:Reza Aslan
“One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.” PeopleDoeCountryLawValuesChallengesAcceptingHappenedParticularEqualEuropeIslam Author:Mark Durie
“I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.” KindHappenedGrewGrew UpEuropeBlessedSouthFarmsSouth Africa Author:Candice Swanepoel
“The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.” ImportantBookDoneMightEarthHappenedEuropeCornersHolocaustHistory BooksDoorstep Author:Jamaica Kincaid