Comments on: Sorry, you’re just not European enough

By: It’s official: Merkel draws NATO line « The 8th Circle

It’s official: Merkel draws NATO line « The 8th Circle — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:03:50 +0000

[...] the two countries. In effect, she has done the same thing with NATO as France’s Nicholas Sarkozy has done with the EU – made it very clear where Brussels stands toward its Eastern neighborhood, which is [...]

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:03:13 +0000

‘…Serbia, a country built on a genocidal civil war…’
What the heck? This shows how much you know about Serbia. yes there was a war, but Serbia was not built out of it… Your frustrations should be directed towards someone else.

By: Eva Stainer

Eva Stainer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:15:51 +0000

You are completely right when desiring the EU to declare “fair” in the sense of predictable conditions for a possible membership of the Ukraine. The actual discussion shows again (as in almost every enlargement question) a deeply divided Union including some countries like Sweden or Poland in favour of an Ukrainian membership and other countries like Germany or Italy taking a different, more distant position.

By: RP

RP — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:13:26 +0000

Actually, bonehead, Ukraine is a gangster-run country dominated by oligarchs. It is not a democratic country — that’s for sure. It is run by a group of billionaire criminals who have total immunity — even in cases of murder — as members of parliament. Don’t even equate this country with Macedonia, Serbia or Albania. Those are countries that really deserve some hope.

By: EU-Ukraine summit in Paris, France « The 8th Circle

EU-Ukraine summit in Paris, France « The 8th Circle — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:48:43 +0000

[...] 9, 2008 by Vitaliy [UPDATE 2008.09.10]: Commentary by J Clive Matthews at Nosemonkey; see also Jonathan Fryer; for an optimistic take, see Huffington [...]