A quote from William Hague at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, 2 October 2007

Every move to give the EU more power should be put to the people.

A quote from a leader in The Hindu (India), 3 October 2007

The question that now lies at the heart of the Belgian and European debate (for, has not the so-called success of Belgium been touted as the model par excellence for a federalist Europe?) is the pertinence of this model. […] The federative model was once a seductive solution but appears less efficient and rational in the face of the divergent political and economic destinies of the constituent parts. Unemployment in Flanders is 9 per cent compared to the 17 per cent in Wallonia and over 15 per cent of the receipts of the French-speaking south come from the wealthier north. “Why should we pay for these lazy left-wingers” is an oft repeated complaint in Flanders.

TEBAF Margot Walstrom is at it again, and this time she wants your children. Acording to her statement today, accompanied by a cringemaking video, European institutions should stop blaming each other for failing to convince us the public about how frightfully spifing they are, but instead should get together and,

Identifying the aspects of school education where joint action at EU level could support Member States;

So how do you go about home schooling?

A quote from Bruno Waterfield in The Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2007

To understand Belgium, imagine that the Union flag no longer flies over Britain or the Cross of St George over England. Imagine an alien flag fluttering from the spires and flying above official buildings across the land. The flag is not the red, white and blue of British Union, symbolising a shared national history stretching back centuries, but the azure field and 12 gold stars of the European Union.

Then imagine that your rulers tell you that you are not, in fact, British but that you are a European, a stranger in your own land.

A quote from ANSAmed, 2 October 2007

The education council of the regional government of Catalonia has forced a state school in Girona to admit [Shaima, a seven-year-old Moroccan girl] to participate in lessons. The girl, who refused to remove her veil, had been missing school for over a week. The mother, Noama, affirms that the decision to wear the hidjab, the scarf which leaves the face uncovered, is not due to family pressures. “Shaima did everything alone,” she says in one of many interviews, “the child has grown up until last year in Morocco with the paternal grandmother, from whom she took her religious habits.” […]

A quote from the Italian press agency ANSA, 2 October 2007

The number of foreigners living in Italy rose by 10% to reach almost three million last year, according national statistics bureau Istat. Figures also confirmed that foreign couples tended to have more children than Italian ones, with the result that for every 10 babies born in Italy, one now has foreign parents.

The saga of the incredible racism of native Brits, who, just like their counterparts all over Western Europe, dare to put up even verbal resistance to their own state-sponsored eradication, continues.
 
Boy ‘who was attacked’ by Slovakian woman may face racism charge

A boy of ten who claims to have been attacked by a Slovakian woman with an iron bar could be charged with inciting racial hatred, it emerged last night. Jake Stedman admitted that the woman hit him after he threw a berry at her and told her to ‘go back to her own country’. As a result, the boy – who was left with two black eyes – could become the youngest person in the country ever to be charged with the offence. A police source said: “There have been allegations that he used racist language and it is necessary for us to investigate the claims.”

113 days after the general elections of June 10th, Belgium still has no government. On Saturday evening, King Albert II reappointed Yves Leterme, the leader of the Flemish Christian-Democrat Party and the winner of last June’s elections, as “formateur” (Prime Minister Designate). The formateur has to put together a new cabinet. Leterme had already been formateur until August 23rd, but he was unable to forge an agreement between parties from Flanders, Belgium’s Dutch-speaking north, and Wallonia, the country’s French-speaking south.
 
Following Mr. Leterme’s previous failure, the King asked “royal scout” Herman Van Rompuy, a senior politician and a member of the Crown Council, to defuse the situation. It took Mr. Van Rompuy a month to get the parties to negotiate again. The Flemings, who are nett contributors to the generous Belgian welfare system, want a reform of this system, while the Walloons, who are nett beneficiaries, veto any reform.

Decades ago we were inundated by public announcements professing the heroically uncompromising morality of the issuer. That was after foreign armies crushed the National Socialist murder machine. Miraculously, in Germany – not unlike her allies and the occupied territories – eighty million anti-Nazis emerged. Besides their discovery of having resisted throughout, people thrived on instant amnesia. It was coupled to claims of not having noticed anything, therefore not even needing to forget the recent past.

A quote from Lycurgus on The Daily Telegraph blog, 30 September 2007

Perhaps the best way to kill the Belgian state would be for the Flemish people en masse to ignore it, to cease paying taxes, to stop voting, to stop utilising whatever facilities still remain within its remit. These past 111 days have proved that a country can survive without a functioning government or at least under an impotent caretaker regime. The Flemish do not need to declare their formal independence at this stage all they need to do is to stop the flow of monies to Wallonia and to treat the Belgian government with the contempt and scorn that it merits, and in doing so they will provide a salutary lesson to us all that governments exist only so long as we are willing to put up with them.