From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 01:24:01 MST
Jonathan Standley wrote:
> I have no idea if any of you are familiar with Larry Bond's earlier works,
> but if you are there are some striking parallels to his book Cauldron. It
> involves the alliance of France and Germany (for reasons too complicated and
> honestly, far-fetched to get into), squaring off against them are the US,
> UK, and their new, staunch allies, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
> At the time I read it (98?), the entire idea of even the current divisions
> between Fr and Gr and the rest of Europe and the US seemed absurd.
You will be going too far to call it a division.
This is probably meant as a slap on the wrist to DE and FR, as they are
meeting over the heads of the other EU members and are trying to call
the shots.
This letter, which does not say anything that DE & FR hasn't allready
agreed with, seems like a "friendly" reminder that there are other
nations in the EU than the 2 big brothers.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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