Word: eurocrat
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...course, this is just as my friend the Eurocrat would have it. Believers in European political unity dream of Europe's regaining a leadership role in world events, something many feared it had lost forever to the giants of the East and West. France has long kept America's attention by playing hard-to-get, but now it wants respect. Germany, after a long period of forced repentance for its sins, wants to get back into the game. Most of the rest of the EC (including the former colonial powers Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and Portugal...
...loss of national will inevitably saps the decisiveness needed for international cooperation. The danger, notes a French Eurocrat, is that "Europe is not irreversible. This situation cannot continue beyond the end of the year without killing us." Adds another Frenchman: "In the terms of psychoanalytical treatment, we will either find our equilibrium or this will lead to suicide...
...Osborne House believes it has a genuine case," says one Dutch-born Eurocrat, "the British government can lodge a formal protest in Brussels." Formal protest notwithstanding, some of Davidson's customers have grown so desperate that they are bringing in their own vital supplies, raising the specter of a black market in pork pies and lime juice...
...think a majority of the Norwegians deserve a better description. The article could have been written by any Norwegian Eurocrat trying to cast suspicion on the Norwegian grass roots of anti-Marketeers...
...Storm clouds hung low over London's Heathrow Airport when the "Eurocrat Special," a British European Airways Trident jet with 118 people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...