Lisbon

Not mine, but an idea floated buy the Italians...

Lord help us.. How do we integrate the Challenger tanks with the Italian ones that only have reverse gears ?

Italy is to push for the creation of a European Army after the "new Europe" takes shape at this week's crucial EU summit following the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.

Franco Frattini, the Italian Foreign Minister, said that the Lisbon Treaty had established "that if some countries want to enter into reinforced co-operation between themselves they can do so". This was already the case with the euro and the Schengen accords on frontier-free travel, and could now be applied to "common European defence".

IMHO, a sad day for Europe. The Lisbon treaty will "federalize" Europe and take away a lot of the powers from sovereign nations .. RIP Europe!

Europe’s elite celebrated the imminent arrival of its first president last night as the last lingering resistance to the Lisbon treaty fell away with the stroke of a pen in Prague.

European leaders wasted no time in starting the process to choose their new president from a range of names including Tony Blair. Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Prime Minister of Sweden, which holds the EU presidency, began a round of telephone diplomacy to determine a shortlist of names.

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1 2 VIENNA AUSTRIA 108.6 107.9
2 1 ZURICH SWITZERLAND 108 108
3 2 GENEVA SWITZERLAND 107.9 107.9
4 4 VANCOUVER CANADA 107.4 107.6
4 5 AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND 107.4 107.3
6 6 DUSSELDORF GERMANY 107.2 107.2
7 7 MUNICH GERMANY 107 107
8 7 FRANKFURT GERMANY 106.8 107
9 9 BERN SWITZERLAND 106.5 106.5
10 10 SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 106.3 106.3
11 11 COPENHAGEN DENMARK 106.2 106.2
12 12 WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND 105.9 105.8
13 13 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS 105.7 105.7
14 14 BRUSSELS BELGIUM 105.4 105.4
15 15 TORONTO CANADA 105.3 105.3
16 19 OTTAWA CANADA 105 104.7

A Wonderful Wedding Invitation...

Checkout.... Sorry Missed out attachment earlier.

"The Indonesian Ambassador to Portugal recalls that even in his country Portuguese is spoken.
From opponents to allied countries, the Indonesian ambassador in Lisbon says there are economic advantages
and even historical reasons for the entry of the Asian giant countries of the Community of Portuguese
Language countries. Cooperation with Timor is one of the objectives of Indonesia should ask still
this year the status of observer member member of CPLP - if all goes well, in a short of time,
we can proceed with this idea. Lopes da Cruz and Minister Luis Amado attended the
inauguration of the Embassy of Timor in Belém The Portuguese minister will visit Jakarta in the next
months, and admits to study the proposal of Indonesia. We are very favorably with the extension of

"It's possible to have an happy marriage between a catholique and a muslim