Javier Solana Quotes

The other is stagnation. I do not need to spell out what that alternative will mean in detail: You have experienced most of it during the years that followed immediately after the war.

Javier Solana

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• The other is stagnation. I do not need to spell out what that alternative will mean in detail: You have experienced most of it during the years that followed immediately after the war.

  

  Javier Solana
  • War
  • Experienced
  • Alternative