Although very busy denying his Iraqi oil, M. Pasqua still finds the time to deny Europe:
...See the ease with which the United States was able to impose the appointment of Monsieur Wolfowitz for the presidency of the World Bank without a peep from anyone in Europe or France...Europe capitulated and, alas, France at the same time. Don't doubt it: the European Constitution is not, as one would like you to believe, a pleasant celebration of peace and friendship among the European people. It is on the contrary the inauguration of "the New Europe dear to Donald Rumsfeld. The Europe of Monsieur Bolkestein domestically and of Monsieur Wolfowitz for everything else...
...It reassures all the bénis-oui-oui who think there's safety only in the escape ahead. The world which comes will be cruel for the people who'll've given up their freedom for the benefit of distant obscure and anonymous organizations.
So reassure, Monsieur Raffarin, since the decision belongs to you, May 29, the French will not give up France!
M. Pasqua is a Senator for Hauts-de-Seine hailing from Jack's UMP. With his exhausting schedule of denials, M. Pasqua no doubt missed the memo that Jack and UMP are bénis-oui-oui.
isn't this the same guy who explained his sudden windfall on a generous gift from an elderly aunt, who, when sought out to confirm her nephew's alliby, took a fatal fall down an elevator shaft?
anyhow I wanted to share this tidbit I found at LGF.
"Interviewees were simply asked an open question - what five adjectives sum up the French," said Olivier Clodong, one of the study's two authors and a professor of social and political communication at the Ecole Superieur de Commerce, in Paris. "The answers were overwhelmingly negative."From the Telegraph
Britons described them as "chauvinists, stubborn, nannied and humourless".
For the Germans, the French are "pretentious, offhand and frivolous".
The Dutch describe them as "agitated, talkative and shallow."
The Spanish see them as "cold, distant, vain and impolite"
In Italy they comes across as "snobs, arrogant, flesh-loving, righteous and self-obsessed"
and the Greeks find them "not very with it, egocentric bons vivants".
Swedes consider them "disobedient, immoral, disorganised, neo-colonialist and dirty".
awww if the French weren't so self involved, I would think some of them might need a hug.
