"Told ya so!!"
Posted on 09/14/2004 12:39:32 PM PDT by Pikamax
Art show sees Europe as 'new Roman Empire' By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 14/09/2004)
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower, according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels.
The pop-art collage mounted in a tent outside the European Commission narrates 50 years of EU history and projects events into the future in an unusually frank display of European ambition.
Segments sketched across 80 yards of canvas predict that the 21st century will be the "European Century" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach".
Under the heading the "Roman Empire returns", it says the EU will be renamed "The Union" once it grows to 50 states over the next three decades.
The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar as the EU defends the international order against the "American onslaught".
The euro will break the "overbearing monopoly of the dollar" by 2010 as China and India switch their reserves to punish America for its "stratospheric deficit".
Casting the United States as the villain of modern times, it says: "The lonely superpower can bribe, bully or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its policy is weakened."
Entitled "The Image of Europe", the display is not a formal expression of EU policy but it captures views that can be heard every day in the corridors and canteens of the Union's institutions.
The exhibit was co-ordinated by the European Commission and sponsored by the European Council. The EU's Dutch presidency said yesterday it was designed to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.
"Told ya so!!"
Definitely not a case of art imitating life.
So how many nations in EU are still in a recession anyway?
Someone tell the EU that the Romans had their own army, and didn't have to depend on someone else to defend their sorry backsides.
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower,...
It's kind of hard to be a superpower when you grab your ankles every time you get in trouble.
When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet fills the sky
The Holy Roman Empire rises
And you and I must die
From the eternal sea he rises
Creating armies on either shore
Turning man against his brother
Till man exists no more
Bad idea to have watched the Omen box set a week ago.
Regards, Ivan
It may be "roman" and conceivably even an "empire", but "holy"?? Never.
…designed to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.
The last time Europe had a group producing forceful images with visions of pushing their borders into neighboring areas, didn't they end up trashing the whole continent (not to mention a large part of the world)? And liberals think that America has imperialistic ambitions – sheesh! Sounds like that whole nazi thing is alive and well in “sophisticated” Europe.
It being holy in the first instance was pretty sporadic too. :)
Regards, Ivan
So should we just surrender now? You know those Frenchmen are tough..........
"The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower, according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels."
Not in their wildest dreams. The real reality is that Europe is being buried under a sea of Moslems and other Third Worlders.
I have maintained that for years. We need to make new alliances without NATO. Just imagine what a safe world it would be if we allied ourselves with Russia, Japan, Australia, Pakistan or India, some Eastern European countries and anyone other than central Europe willing to be safe?
Screw the EUrinals.
This sort of foolishness comes from the paradox of the EU.
The EU ruling elite has delusions of grandeur but the European man in the street has no wish to sacrifice his 35 hour workweek, six week vacation, cradle to grave social welfare lifestyle to pay the price and take the risks necessary to make those dreams real. The European man in the street has no wish to make the sacrifices necessary to turn the EU into a kind of Third French Empire strong enough to take on America.
So they think they can persuade us that we have some kind of "moral duty" to collectivize the decisions we make and give them a veto over our actions. They babble foolishness about "legal and moral reach" as if pious posturing and pieces of paper were the stuff of power, not the courage of real men and women.
A continent too PC to complain or even notice that packs of young Muslims are routinely gang-raping their daughters is not one destined to play any role in history.
Sounds like a "Monty Python" skit. Absolutely insane.
Well actually towards the end of the empire they did. In fact it was largely because there were so few Italians in the armies that the Empire lost it's stability and fragmented into smaller territorial militarily governorships controlled by local armies who were only nominally Roman and under foreign command. e.g. The titles of the medieval nobility for the most part come from military ranks of the Roman allied armies.
ROTLMAO!!! Great post ;D
Um... most everyone (I assume) knows about the Lisbon council where the EU set itself a deadline to be the "most competitive economy in the world by 2010". I believe the overall plan is to catch up in terms of GDP.
However German finance minister Hans Eichel disagrees and there are a number of Economists saying that Europe is going the wrong way.
http://www.euobserver.com/?aid=17227
" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach"."
This is the idea behind Jaques Iraq thinking he has the standing to call Russia to account for its handling of the Chechen terrorist.
If they truly ever intend to become a power much less a superpower, they better start making babies, because it takes people to "push those borders," and they're going to be woefully short-handed.
There's a CBS and font joke in there somewhere...
Despite what some people think, life DOESN'T imitate art.
"The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar"
Thank God, our prayers will be answered!
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