Mike wrote:

Maybe,this can be discussed,but that wasn't the point...
it was about the ten new countries joining the eu
you have difficulties in reading?

I understand you're writing in a non-native language, but you did write the
following:

Mike wrote:

Colonial power?Germany?...hum!...
what you say is true France+Germany+Belgium are only 3 countries...under 25,
but also remember how much of the EU gnp those three represent....
France and Germany,except Germany (lol),can make good food,but can also
make 3 times the national product of the ten new countries,Poland included.
Sorry,but that is a fact,and that counts also.

Written in the context of Poland and "New Europe" being told to promote the EU
[French] line by Chirac (with the implication that EU membership could be
jeapordized BTW).

I had no difficulties reading your statement. Perhaps something got lost in
translation, or we're simply not communicating in the same context.

This seems to be par for the course between Americans and French these days.


SMH


SMH