Via Julia M in the comments to my previous post, surprise surprise, The Graun has laid into Vaclav Klaus.
My personal highlights are this:
Next, the statement has to be retracted when it fails to chime with the message from Paris, which has reluctantly ceded the EU's presidency to Prague.
1. 'Paris' is perfectly entitled to say what it likes, as is 'Prague', why should 'Prague' be forced to retract something because 'Paris' isn't happy with it?
2. "...reluctantly ceded ..."??? WTF, rules is rules, France held the six-month rotating presidency of the Council Of The European Union for, er, six months, as laid down in the rules. There's no "ceding" involved, "reluctant" or otherwise.
... and this ...
"And then an aristocrat fond of bow ties (Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg) leads a mission aimed at brokering a ceasefire ..."
FFS, has The Graun ever described Sarkozy as "The son of a Hungarian immigrant and a French mother of Greek Jewish origin who is fond of built-up platform shoes"?
... and this ...
"Prague's patent bias towards Israel is consistent with both its own foreign policy and the direction in which the union has been heading for some time."
1. Isn't the first part a tautology? You would expect Czech's foreign policy to be consistent with its patent bias and vice versa, or have I missed something?
2. If "Prague's patent bias ... is consistent with ... the direction in which the union has been heading...", then that's a good thing, isn't it?
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I just ran a post on him recently - great man.
Alija Izetbegovic did decide it was proper not to cede power to Radovan Karadzic even though Bosnia's constitution had a revolving presidency. This had the clear approval of the EU countries who are now involved in bringing Mr Karadzic to "trial" for wanting to uphold the law.
I suppose we should be grateful that "Paris" & the EU bureaucracy (& the Guardian) have not yet decided that they can do the same to the EU.
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