Comments on: Euro-Jeffersons http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:16:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: What’s “Hah!” In Irish? | ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-34723 What’s “Hah!” In Irish? | ninme Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:55:09 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-34723 <p>[...] remember this from Baron Rees-Mogg the other [...]</p> [...] remember this from Baron Rees-Mogg the other [...]

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-34076 HalfEmpty Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:36:27 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-34076 <p>Heh, first thing I thought of was not Thomas, but George.</p> <p>Well, we're moving on up!</p> <p>o/ Dry Cleaning!</p> Heh, first thing I thought of was not Thomas, but George.

Well, we’re moving on up!

o/ Dry Cleaning!

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-33746 Rueful Red Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:02:41 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-33746 <p>I like that image.</p> <p>The European project is doomed because there's no such thing as a single European political culture. Whereas as the Framers and their states shared a common language, a common legal inheritance and shared history, the states of Europe have very little in common beyond shared conflicts. This has meant that the European project has and always will be a top-down construction, with all that that implies for popular legitimacy.</p> I like that image.

The European project is doomed because there’s no such thing as a single European political culture. Whereas as the Framers and their states shared a common language, a common legal inheritance and shared history, the states of Europe have very little in common beyond shared conflicts. This has meant that the European project has and always will be a top-down construction, with all that that implies for popular legitimacy.

]]> By: DirtCrashr http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-33705 DirtCrashr Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:42:11 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/06/euro-jeffersons.html#comment-33705 <p>I don't have a lot of hope for Governments in Europe, or even of an EuroGov in itself - in many countries (Italy for one) time after time they have coalesced and dissolved while the inherent machinery of bureaucracy and capital grind on as if oblivious. Their treaties are meaningless except as vehicles from which careers of diplomats hang, like a Calder mobile twisting in the wind.</p> I don’t have a lot of hope for Governments in Europe, or even of an EuroGov in itself - in many countries (Italy for one) time after time they have coalesced and dissolved while the inherent machinery of bureaucracy and capital grind on as if oblivious. Their treaties are meaningless except as vehicles from which careers of diplomats hang, like a Calder mobile twisting in the wind.

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