Europe Quotes by Tariq Ali

12 Europe quotes by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali’s perspective on Europe is distilled into twelve thoughtful lines, offering a concise entry point into his critical analysis of continental politics.

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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R.…

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The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things…

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One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

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Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the…

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The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

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The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after…

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I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring…

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If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia,…

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If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then…

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The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but…

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The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as…

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At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the…

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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

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The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a…

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I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

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Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

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