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The new European Soviet.
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages.
Greece is the most magical place on Earth.
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.
Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.
The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.
Serbia is open for business.
The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
****your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)
Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.
Well, then. Hungary borders, in the south, on the Danube and Serbia ... and the Rumanian ... Dalmatian ... and Serbia ... and the capital of Serbia.., and the Serbia of capital ...
I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer.
But it does.
It's enough, therefore, to glance in the dictionary and find that katorga (forced labor) is a Turkish word, too. And it's enough to discover on a Turkish map, somewhere in Anatolia, or Ionia, a town called Nigde (russian for nowhere).
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.
Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years."
"I hope that's not true", I said.
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.
Disgusting Serbs, get out!
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.
Greater Albania?!", this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.
Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.
I built Kosovo for 10 years.
Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.
Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
Croatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.
Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
my country is the world
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
UK - that was Britain.
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?
In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.
My Country is Truth.
I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are ... in Moldova. Or not.
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
I'm amazed to find those countries are in Europe.
Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe.
Aziraphale was a Principality, but people made
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)
It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.
What was a country but the idea of it?
I served the Poland that existed.
Id like to live in the Greek islands
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.
No country. is as harsh as the world.
I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."
I promise everyone who comes to Ukraine can see a beautiful country.
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.
My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
Unhappy Persia, that in former age
Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors,
That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.
There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
Greece is not an easy country to do business in.
Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children.
The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
Greece is a good place for rebirths.
There is no country but the heart.
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.