….Van Rompuy is very well aware of his powerlessness. He was chosen by the Sarkozies, the Merkels and the Browns just because of his lack of sex-appeal and supposed lack of ambition, over candidates like Holland’s J.P.Balkenende or Letlands former president.
One thing is sure, read my lips, the man is terribly UNDERestimated.
Listen to his Jesuit-, finely tuned-, rebuttal of sarkozist and insular British policies….

Dans quelques jours, le Parlement Européen décidera, s’il est, oui ou non, d’accord avec la décision du Conseil européen, à mettre à la disposition des autorités américaines, TOUTES les données sur les transferts internationaux des citoyens eu…

The European Parliament will have to decide, this week, if it allows American authorities to data-mine your and mine international euro-transfers by way of copying the SWIFT data.Swift services banks in Europe and elsewhere. For instance, when I send s…

Somebody within the Dutch Justice bureaucracy must have had a great idea. “Let’s make a YouTube Video to counter Geert Wilders! He did his “Fitna” thing in March 2008. We do our Justice thing in January 2010! And it worked! A simple device helped Dutch…

[...] George Soros became famous, when he speculated successfully against the British Pound (£) in 1992, forcing it out of the European currency “slang”. Much of the money he got out of this disastrous (for Europe) move, was invested, later on, into a series of private initiatives for democracy and civil society in countries like Bosnia, Hungary, Serbia and the Ukraine. Showing, how you can throw bad money to good causes.
The New York based George Soros institute OSI (Open Society Institute) issues a report about Muslims in Europe, focussing on 11 European cities. It is produced by the OSI At Home in Europe Project , and covers:

“the experiences of Muslim communities in select neighborhoods in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and Hamburg, Copenhagen, Leicester and Waltham Forest–London, Marseille and Paris, and Stockholm.”

I know, how difficult it is, to reply to self-conscious US opinionmakers when Europe is at stake.Yesterday, the liberal New York Times published an opinion, called Europe’s Minaret Moment, by somebody called Ross Douthat. He has read Christopher Caldwe…