Other Top-level Politicians Do Not Express Their

I Was Paid To Read Western Economic Texts. In A Way, The Regime Paid For Their Own Undermining.

Human Relations Tend To Be More Difficult When You're Dealing With Someone Who Weighs 30 Kilograms More Than You Do. That's When You Worry About Whether A Well-meaning Gesture Could Produce Complications. We Have No Problems With Countries Like Madagascar Or Bolivia, For Example. But Germany Is Our Neighbor And We Have A Shared Past. Besides, Germany Is Powerful And Ambitious And More Than Four Times As Large As We Are. It Makes Complete Sense That We Would Act Cautiously. It's Simply Realpolitik.

The Message Of [fahernheit 9/11] Is Very Weak And Propagandistic ... We Were Used To Such Messages In The Communist Days. Everybody Has Open Eyes And Can Understand That This Is Propaganda. It Was A Weak Film That Tells Us Nothing New.

My Main Concern Is The Political Dimension Of European Integration. This Is One Of The Most Important Issues Of All, As Far As I'm Concerned. It Has To Do With Our Past, With Our Sensitivity, Perhaps Even Our Hypersensitivity In This Regard.

To Reduce The Interpretation Of The Causality Of All Kinds Of Climate Changes And Of Global Warming To One Variable, Co2, Or To A Small Proportion Of One Variable - Human-induced Co2 - Is Impossible To Accept. Elementary Rationality And My Decades-long Experience With Econometric Modelling And Statistical Testing Of Scientific Hypotheses Tell Me That It Is Impossible To Make Strong Conclusions Based On Mere Correlation Of Two (or More) Time Series.