Different Voices

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Series Details 24/02/00, Volume 6, Number 08
Publication Date 24/02/2000
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Date: 24/02/2000

  • “If they won't shake my hand, I will try to give them a hug.” Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, who is a member of Jörg Haider's far-fight Freedom Party, saying he was looking forward to meeting his EU counterparts at a meeting in Brussels next week.
  • “The European Union is not a Garden of Eden, but a playing field for competitive companies.” Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein warning that enlargement risked being a bumpy road and the EU must beware of 'creating illusions' in the applicant countries.
  • “They can't make people love each other, but it is enough for them to be there to prevent people from killing each other.” EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana insisting that NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo were successfully preventing a bloodbath in the town of Mitrovica and calling for more police to be sent to the region.
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