Tag: europe

the France that never was

But for some people in France, Notre Dame has also served as a deep-seated symbol of resentment, a monument to a deeply flawed institution and an idealized Christian European France that arguably never existed in the first place. “The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.

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Despite politicians on both sides of the French political spectrum discouraging people from trying to politicize the Notre Dame fire, it would be a mistake to view the building as little more than a Paris tourist attraction, says John Harwood, an architectural historian and associate professor at the University of Toronto. “It’s literally a political monument. All cathedrals are,” he says.

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Any rebuilding should be a reflection not of an old France, or the France that never was — a non-secular, white European France — but a reflection of the France of today, a France that is currently in the making.

 
 

Это цитаты из статьи в Rolling Stone. Кому именно принадлежит последняя фраза, я не понял – не то одному из цитируемых в статье архитекторов, не то автору статьи. В любом случае, мысль впечатляющая: не только о необходимости восстанавливать собор с учетом современных и будущих реалий (какие реалии имеются в виду, в статье сказано – рост мусульманского населения), но и о том, что "a non-secular, white European France" никогда не существовала.

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Пивное

Оказывается, историческое замечание про то, что европейцам пора взять свою судьбу в свои руки, канцлерин Меркель сделала в пивной в Мюнхене. Beer tent, конечно, а не Hofbräuhaus, но все равно налицо истинно германское уважение к традициям.

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Even conservatives

Almost everyone in French politics is working to stop Le Pen. Even conservatives have united behind center-left Macron in an effort to stop the National Front.

До чего знакомо звучит. Интересно, что получится на этот раз.

Кстати, кто разбирается во французских делах: правильно ли я понимаю, что от прочих тамошних социалистов Лё Пен отличается только отношением к иммиграции?

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Внезапно

Spiegel пишет:

Israel is the first democracy to have extensive experience with Islamist terrorism. Before recent attacks on our own soil, Europeans loved nothing better than scorning the Jewish state’s efforts to address terror. In the future, we may need to turn to the Israelis for advice.

Как-то неожиданно. Я привык видеть там тексты противоположного содержания.

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Равноправие

After weeks of wrangling over the issue, the European Commission approved a draft law that would create a gender quota for non-executive directors of stock-listed companies across the European Union. If approved, the new regulations would stipulate that women occupy 40 percent of the seats on the non-executive boards of Europe’s roughly 5,000 publicly traded companies by 2020. In instances where candidates’ professional qualifications were the same, women would also be given preference, should they be under-represented in that company. Companies that do not adhere to the rules could be sanctioned.

Сексистский законопроект. Почему всего 40%, а не пропорционально доле в населении? Почему только non-executive directors? Почему только stock-listed companies, а остальные как же? Зачем столько времени дали, что, прямо сейчас выбирать не из кого? Много еще работы предстоит европейским регуляторам.

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