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The "Grand Turk" and the Future of Europe |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Curtis Cate |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,449 Words, 15,654 Characters |
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LE GRAND TURC ET LA REPUBLIQUE DE VENISE
By Sylvie Goulard
Preface by Robert Badinter
Paris, Fayard 2004, 140 pp.,12 euros
There is always something to be gained by reading a book written in good faith by an author who is not afraid to swim against the tide of "conventional wisdom." Such a book is Le Grand Turc et la Republique de Venise (The Grand Turk and the Republic of Venice), which was written by Sylvie Goulard, a professor of political science in Paris and at the College d'Europe in Bruges, in a desperate effort to wake up her French compatriots to what she sees as great dangers in store for them. Having, in addition, served for three years as an adviser to the European Commission in Brussels, and having thus acquired a rare "insider's view" of its operations, she was ...
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...as positively visceral: "Europe : non au suicide! … I like Turkey. But I do not much care for the Turkish Europe that is now being readied for us. This Europe without history or geography, without past or future, without design or destiny, is the concept of a crazy technocrat, of a spineless philosopher, a humanistic ectoplasm that is the fruit of an angelic naivete without frontiers."
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