From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2011-08-01 23:42
We're stuck with the Greek misery. I predict that nothing will come of all those beautiful plans for privatizations. The Greek state is weak, a large part of the population is lazy. I also tried to keep the Italians from the euro zone. I didn't succeed.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2011-08-01 23:36
A quote from Geert Wilders, interviewed by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, 1 August 2011:
Islam is the biggest danger threatening our country and the free West. We have too much mass-immigration from Islamic countries and too many hate palaces – Cohen call them mosques, I believe – and immigrants are still overrepresented in the crime numbers. Enough is enough. (...)
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2011-07-27 18:09
A quote from Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen, 27 July 2011:
Security services in our country will file a case with federal prosecutors about a possible link between The Brussels Journal and the Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik. (...) Security services would like to shed some light on a few things. In the past few years, The Brussels Journal has published a number of articles which also appear in "2038 A European Declaration of Independence", the manifest that Breivik distributed just before his attacks. (...) Now that security services have compiled a dossier, the prosecutor must decide whether an investigation will be started.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sat, 2011-07-23 22:27
A quote from Fjordman on Gates of Vienna, 23 July 2011:
I notice that certain bloggers (...) keep spreading the utterly false rumor that I am the evil shooter from Utøya, the island just outside of Oslo.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2011-05-25 08:19
A quote from the Brussels newspaper La Capitale, 25 May 2011:
Toilet paper sold in the Carrefour supermarkets was withdrawn from shops in Belgium. The toilet paper is decorated with zodiac signs. Two of those signs, Virgo and Capricorn, resemble the Arabic words for Allah and Muhammad. (...)
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2011-05-03 11:04
A quote from Giulio Meotti on YnetNews, 2 May 2011:
Europe risks losing all its precious gifts: human dignity, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, rule of law, separation of state and mosque. Across Europe there are dozens of journalists, cartoonists and writers who are living under terrorist threats. (...)
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2011-02-21 23:21
A quote from Geert Wilders in The Wall Street Journal, 22 February 2011:
My trial in Amsterdam is not about me, but about freedom of speech in Europe. As Dwight D. Eisenhower, Europe's liberator from Nazism, once warned, freedom "must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." Today in Europe, freedom is being neither earned nor refreshed.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sat, 2011-01-29 08:34
A quote from Sam Fox, U.S. ambassador to Belgium, 8 June 2007, leaked by Wikileaks and published by De Standaard:
"We note, however, that no one ever went broke betting on the ability of Belgian politicians to eat their own words when it comes to choosing a ministerial seat."
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2011-01-20 23:36
A quote from Daniel Hannan in the European Parliament, 19 January 2011, reading from his book "The New Road To Serfdom - A Letter Of Warning to America":
Faced with a choice between democracy and supra-nationalism, the European Union almost always opts for supra-nationalism and nowhere is this clearer than in its policy in the Western Balkans. We are maintaining to all intents and purposes protectorates in Bosnia, in Kosovo and arguably even in Macedonia for the sole purpose of preventing ethnographic boundaries along the lines of what local people there would choose.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2011-01-06 15:08
A quote from Ian Buruma in The New Yorker, 10 January 2011:
Throughout Europe, a growing number of people, in some version of the Tea Party mantra, "want their country back" - from "Brussels," or from overeducated technocrats, or from immigrants. The alienation of the Belgians is, in this respect, a typically European story.
