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Irrelevance, Europe’s logical choice

By Gideon Rachman

Published: May 19 2008 18:33 | Last updated: May 19 2008 18:33

Ingram Pinn

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

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