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European Countries Quotes
Perspectives from across a shared continent
These quotes look at European countries through migration policy, cultural habits like subtitling films, and the shifting fortunes of political unions over time. See America quotes for a contrasting view.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Korea, if a player doesn't play well, you would never criticise him, but in European countries fans criticise their own teams; sometimes they boo them off the pitch.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
- American Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.
- Everything
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America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
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Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
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We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toward the middle and end of the Fifties, West European countries became somewhat more important as providers of aid to underdeveloped countries. It was partly due to the prodding of the United States that these countries, as they regained economic viability, should shoulder their share of the aid burden.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
- Flare
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
- Binding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Girl
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When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
- Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
- Co-Operation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.
- Directive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers' directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020