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The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 29, 2008
Regarded as something of an anglophile, Barack Obama has said that it is time to “recalibrate” the relationship between the US and the UK, and to end the “poodle status” of the latter. The relationship will be a more …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 28, 2008
[Zopas is een Fransman in het huwelijk getreden met zijn vier jaar geleden overleden vaste vriendin. Als bijdrage tot het feestgedruis op zijn bruiloft reproduceren we hier een artikel uit een flamingantisch blad dd …
Tagged: dutch
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 27, 2008
More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear: If he becomes US president, America will become a whole lot more like …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 27, 2008
Democrats and star-struck adulators will remember Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin as something more than it actually was. “By this foreign policy speech will future ones be measured,” declared dKos editor Tim Lee …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 27, 2008
George Handlery on the week that was. Obama in Berlin: what is in the package? Russia’s permission is needed to defend Europe. Negotiating by not talking. America as an ally. Leopards and their spots. A convenient …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 23, 2008
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Serbia on Tuesday has provided yet another occasion for all the tired old propaganda about the Balkans wars to be taken out of the cupboard and given one last airing. In particular …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 23, 2008
A quote from The Financial Times, 22 July 2008 Almost a decade after a remarkable poll success that propelled Austria’s rightwing Freedom party (FPÖ) into government and shocked the rest of Europe, it appears poised …
Tagged: odds and ends
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 23, 2008
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic has predictably produced its crop of outrageous remarks from people who ought to know better but who, predictably, are incapable observing the niceties. Thus the likes of Lord Ashdown …
Tagged: english
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 22, 2008
Zeeman, Brugsesteenweg, Gent [foto: Skender]. Ulla Popken, Zonnestraat, Gent [foto: Skender]. De Gentse vestigingen van winkelketens Zeeman en Ulla Popken hangen eentalig Franse affiches in hun etalages. Van …
Tagged: dutch
The Brussels Journal - Dutch, English, Quotes, Odds & Ends, Radio Free Brussels - Jul 22, 2008
A quote from David Baeckelandt at The Flemish American blog, 5 July 2008 The 2000 US Census listed 348,531 people claiming "Belgian" ancestry (down from more than 380,000 in 1990). Less than 15,000 specifically listed …
Tagged: odds and ends