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Åland vs EU: David Confronts Goliath
Canada Free Press ^ | Thursday, February 16, 2006 | Paul Belien

Posted on 02/16/2006 2:27:02 PM PST by Anne_Conn

Last week Chresten Anderson wrote a piece on this website about the tiny island of Åland (actually a group of islands, as one of our readers pointed out) that is rebelling against the European moloch in Brussels. The Daily Telegraph sent its Brussels correspondent David Rennie to Mariehamn, Åland’s capital.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aland; chewingtobacco; constitution; europeanunion; finland

1 posted on 02/16/2006 2:27:04 PM PST by Anne_Conn
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To: Anne_Conn

"Give me snus or give me death!"


2 posted on 02/16/2006 2:43:07 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Anne_Conn

Bravo to the Alanders! The very hypocritical European Union gives regular lip-service to subsidiarity (the concept that decisions should be made at the lowest practical level) while aggressively promoting a centralized and intrusive bureaucracy.


3 posted on 02/16/2006 8:24:32 PM PST by Malesherbes
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