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To: tejek who wrote (283843)	4/12/2006 5:23:40 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1572386

Re: Oh give me a break. Northern Europeans have looked down their noses at Greeks and Italians for decades. Well, it's one thing for Northern Europeans to snub their fellow southerners and quite another to act violently against them. As I already explained to you(), the fact that Europe is a multicultural white monolith doesn't entail a timeless, unalterable bliss among Europeans.... Multiculturalism means cultural conflicts and prejudices, yet those are different from racial/racist hatreds. Somehow, they are akin to Israel's internecine quarrels between Ashkenazes and Sepharades --they're family feuds. Gus () Last paragraph: Message 21812798

To: tejek who wrote (283843)	4/12/2006 12:22:12 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572386

Re: It wasn't Spain and Greece that were the founders of the EU, it was the nordic powerhouses like Brit and Germany with the Latin country of France thrown in as the token. Actually the embryo that ultimately became the present 25-member EU was the Europe of Six made up of France, Germany, Italy and benelux countries... So, considering that, at the time, it was the Federal Republic of Germany, the incipient EEC was overwhelmingly a "Latin/Catholic project" with French, Italians and French-speaking Belgians far outweighing their Germanic/Nordic fellows.... For that matter, the founding treaty of the EU is the 1957 Treaty of Rome --not Copenhagen or Helsinki or Bonn: news.bbc.co.uk Even today, Northern Europe is still a marginal EU member: although Denmark is part of the EU, it's not part of the eurozone --there are no Danish euros. And Norway is not even part of the political Union...