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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Hydrocephalic Mega-state goes into Mythmaking 

posted by Joe @ 09:40

Charter of Fundamental Rights to be re-written as epic poem
At least it will make a nice fable of some long lost happier time that never existed, someday.
The European Commission is bracing itself for the prospect of politically sensitive requests from EU citizens once a key direct-democracy clause contained in the Lisbon Treaty takes effect.
In the mean time, we still have to hear the usual dyspeptic whining from Paris:
In a move that is likely to provoke the ire of francophones, already smarting from what they view as the galloping advance of the English language within the EU institutions and European communication with citizens at the expense of French, the tender required that poem be composed in the language of Shakespeare as English is, according to the tender document, the "literary language".


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