I find it hard to believe this quote is for real
Austrian President Heinz Fischer : “The people of Egypt are the greatest people on earth, and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace”.
There is no date on this page to know when it was posted.
http://www.alexu.edu.eg/?q=node/2069
I wonder is someone made up a bunch of stuff and then it has become “fact”.
You’re right: at first sight all those quotes (ironically, except the Obama one we are sadly accustomed to believing)
seem a bit “cut to fit”, tailored or “badly translated” to support the current “narrative” at the time. There would be
“reason” to believe “Europe” would be that feckless and fatuous (after all, weren’t they the ones who gave Obama the Nobel Prize before he did ANYTHING to ruin his prospects of getting it forever?)