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Subject: [Leica] Re: Belgium (WAS: New topic - what makes "it" newsworthy?)
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Jan 12 01:39:18 2008
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Daniel,
Would you have dual citizenship, or would you have to surrender your US
citizenship?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Jan 12, 2008 2:31 PM, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, and Philippe has just summed up why I decided to apply for
> Swedish citizenship.
>
> I wanted to be a citizen of the EU and for me, Belgium represents what
> I would like the EU to be.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 7:57 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
> > Philippe has just summed up some of the reasons why I think that of
> > all the countries where I have lived, I consider Belgium to have the
> > best overall quality of life (I have not yet lived in Spain long
> > enough to include it in the comparison).
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> >
> > On 12-jan-2008, at 2:54, Philippe Orlent wrote:
> >
> > > I ?m Belgian, and the essence of that is a kind of 'intuitive
> > > western polyglotness': linguisticly we have Indogerman, but also
> > > Southern European influences, both very often combined with a
> > > classic education (intensive Latin and Greek). It's quite unique
> > > really. So we might have ridiculous jurisdiction, a laugheable
> > > government, an opportunistic nature, and whatever other city myth,
> > > but in languages we do excell. And in cuisine ofcourse ;-)
> > > Anyways.
> > >
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > nathan@nathanfoto.com
> > General photography:
> > http://www.nathanfoto.com
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> >
> >
> >
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