A GREAT DEAL OF RESPECT
"(...) Then a unusual thing happened. In the privacy of that room, our European partners dared to be seen to be agreeing with the British Prime Minister.
With the exception of Anibal Cavaco Silva, the highly intelligent Portuguese Prime Minister, few of them had any thecnical understanding of economics. But they could all see that the old ways were not working.
(...)
To the north, Rudd Lubbers of the Netherlands tended to be among Britain´s closest friend... I often found him an ally, as, sometimes, was the likeable Anibal Cavaco Silva of Portugal, for whom I had a great deal of respect."
John Major-The Autobiography
(Harper Collins-1999,2000)
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2 Comments:
A opinião do PM inglês de 1990 a 1997 interessa-me bastante mais do que a de algumas luminárias lusas. Recordação oportuna...
eduardo figueiredo
Mesmo a nível de primeiros ministros europeus era "exception" na percepção dos problemas e os bimbos cá da terra, que nem somam duas parcelas, ainda chiam...
Interessante.
c. e.
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