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Written by Brian David Crane on May 27th, 2005
I traveled around Bolivia with a French couple. Their sentiments were very interesting regarding Sarkozy, Chirac, and the general state of affairs in France at the moment. The French are preparing to vote this Sunday on the new EU constitution, and by all accounts, appear ready to reject it:
At a rally of 5,000 supporters in Paris on Saturday, Philippe de Villiers, the leader of the nationalist Movement for France, said that the adoption of the constitution would strip Europe’s nations of their sovereignty and transfer too much power to Brussels. “To have 450m people run by 18 technocrats is a totalitarian idea from the last century,” he said. Mr de Villiers, who has been one of the most energetic No campaigners drawing support from conservative Catholic, Gaullist and sovereigntist traditions, said that France had a “special mission” in the world, thanks to its historical, geographic, and linguistic links, which should never be abandoned. “It is impossible to imagine Europe without France. But France is also an extra-European power, a world power,” he said to wild applause.
Compliments of the Financial Times
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May 29th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
It sounds like you are meeting a lot of interesting people, and from all over no less. I met the lady who drives the snowcone truck through the neighborhoods the other day. I ask her if the jingle she plays over and over again got old. She said yeah, but you tone it out after a while……wow my life is boring, I gotta get out more.