The European Union has already institutionalized a litmus test that cuts to the core of the differences that separate the new European view of shared risks and vulnerabilities from the older American view of unlimited personal opportunities and individual prowess. It’s called “the precautionary principle,” and it has become the
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CuriosityCat: From My Quotes Cupboard: Tony Blair on Labour’s problem
Labour just did not have a large enough constituency to govern: From early on, even before my election to Parliament in 1983, I had realised the Labour problem was self-made and self-induced. We were not in touch with the modern world. We could basically attract two types of people: those
Continue readingCuriosityCat: From My Quotes Cupboard: European foreign policy
What then does a European foreign and security policy look like? For beginners, it’s so utterly different from anything that came before it in human history that it requires a leap of human imagination to even entertain it. European foreign policy is built on spreading peace rather than amassing power…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: From My Quotes Cupboard: The American Dream versus the European Dream
[T]he European Dream is the mirror opposite of the American Dream. The American and European dreams are, at their core, about two diametrically opposed ideas of freedom and security. Americans hold a negative definition of what it means to be free and, thus, secure. For us, freedom has long been
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