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    European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 September
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    The French foreign ministry issued a statement saying that "Bernard Kouchner has contacted [Swiss foreign minister] Micheline Calmy-Rey to express the French authorities' wishes that Mr Polanski's rights be fully respected and that the matter quickly finds a favourable outcome." A diplomatic war was brewing today over the arrest of the filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was detained in Switzerland on a decades-old warrant relating to the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Full Article at European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
    Bernard Kouchner has contacted [Swiss foreign minister] Micheline Calmy-Rey to express the French authorities' wishes that Mr Polanski's rights be fully respected and that the matter quickly finds a favourable outcome.
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 September
  1. We have overcome many difficulties in the past and we will overcome them in the present ... Portugal has the means to confront all its problems in the future.
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  2. Are you sure that he's still in your apartment?
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  3. At this bitter moment, I'm not going to evade my responsability ... But I do intend to do my best to help the SPD fight back with renewed energy. I want to participate in that rebuilding process, as leader of the opposition in the Bundestag.
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  4. The people have spoken and they have spoken loudly. The Socialists were once again chosen to govern Portugal and they were chosen without any ambiguity
    Jose Socrates – Jose Socrates SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  5. To know what to do. And to do it.
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  6. He is standing in front of my bedroom door
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  7. There's a burglar in my house, Spinoza Street, Tel Aviv
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  8. We have reached our election goal of a stable majority for a new government
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  9. In the same way as there is a generous America which we love, there is also a certain kind of America which is frightening, and it is this America which has now shown us its face
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago
  10. My position is yes [to greater European action]. So far the position of the council [representing member states] has been no. That is the reality
    SOURCE: European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. 2 months ago

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