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Ian Buruma, Lucky Little Countries?

“It is true that the Dutch, proud and comfortable inside their narrow borders, have, like the Swiss, often viewed the outside world with a degree of smugness. And for this they are now being punished. That, too, is the natural fate of being a lucky little country in Western Europe.”

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Simon Kuper, The crescent and the cross:

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written in the 1890s, possibly by the Russian-French journalist Matthieu Golovinski, and spread by the Tsarist secret police. A forgery, it claimed to be the manual of a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world.

Bat Ye’or, author of the little-read but influential book Eurabia, repeatedly mentions the Protocols. Well she might, because Eurabia has been described as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in reverse. Bat Ye’or is Hebrew for “daughter of the Nile’’, the pseudonym of a woman who fled Egypt as a Jew in 1957 and now lives in Switzerland. In Eurabia, she purports to reveal an Arab-European conspiracy to rule the world.

Though ludicrous, Eurabia became the spiritual mother of a genre. Ye’or’s genius was to bridge two waves of anti-European books: those of 2002-03, which said Europe had gone anti-Semitic again, and those of 2006-07, which say Europe is being conquered by Muslims.

The four books here provide a fair summary of the “Eurabia’’ genre. False as they are, their existence reveals something about the geopolitical moment.”

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In Europa: 1900 Dawn of the Century

In Europa:

“Welkom bij de start van een bijzonder project. Op zondag 11 november is de eerste aflevering van In Europa op TV, en dat betekent ook de start van de In Europa Atlas, een virtuele kaart van de geschiedenis van Europa die vanaf deze week steeds verder zal worden ingevuld en waaraan u zelf ook kunt bijdragen.”

Aflevering 1: 1900 Dawn of the Century. (Zondag 11 nov. om 21.05 uur op Ned2.)

Sophie in ‘t Veld:

“Minder democratie, minder slagvaardigheid door nieuwe veto’s vermomd als noodremprocedures, geen energiebeleid, een ernstige verzwakking van de grondrechten, meer protectionisme, een uitbreiding van de spaghettiberg van verdragen en procedures….Nederland met de reputatie van dwarsligger, en Europa verder voor jaren verlamd en onmachtig. Waar is Balkenende nou zo tevreden mee ?”

FAZ: Kunstsommer 2007

Kunstbeeld: “Lees hier het (beeld)verslag van de ‘Grand tour’ die hoofdredacteur Robbert Roos maakte naar de Biënnale van Venetië, Art Basel, Documenta en Skulptur Münster.”

LiveScience: “Europe’s prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have practiced human sacrifice, a new study claims. “

BBC: “A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate “war on terror” suspects.”

Dick Marty’s second report on secret detentions and illegal transfers (532KB PDF)

“This page lists typical roaming tariffs charged by operators in the Netherlands when one of their subscribers travels to a number of Destination Countries.”

Marie-Jose Klaver: “De Europese Commissie wordt in de petitie opgeroepen om de aanbevelingen uit haar eigen Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe (pdf) formeel uit te voeren.”

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