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"en.20121211.27.2-116-000"2
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"Mr President, it is wonderful that we have got all this money lying around to send to Kyrgyzstan, is it not? Here we are in the European Union, borrowing from what Shakespeare calls ‘your children yet unborn and unbegot’ in order to finance our present standard of living, and yet we can afford this macro-economic assistance to the Kyrgyz Republic.
Do you know what? In the long run I would have thought that Kyrgyzstan’s economic prospects are better than ours. Tiny and landlocked and war-torn as that republic is, it is pretty well positioned – the centre of economic gravity in the world is shifting, mile by mile, across the Eurasian steppes in an eastward direction and the Kyrgyz are not making the mistake that we are of lumbering themselves with a common agricultural policy, the 48-hour week, the social chapter and all the rest of it. The day may come when our descendants are coming as supplicants to the Silk Road khanates, because they will see where the wealth and power in the world lies. And when that happens, their curse will light upon this generation which squandered their inheritance."@en1
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