Almost European

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

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/ˈɔlˌmoʊst ˌjʊrəˈpiən/

It is over600km ( 370 miles ) by boat from the almost elegant European city of Khabarovsk to the desperate little port of Nikolaevsk, where people and buildings lurch at all angles.
Almost all continental European politicians backed the euro. And in the US and UK, both main parties wanted to invade Iraq.
However, almost two-thirds of European respondents – 63 per cent – said that China and Europe had such different values that co-operating on international problems would prove impossible.
Go into a large department store or hotel in almost any big European city and you can pay in Swiss francs, sterling or dollars as well as euros.
Since the UK, France and Germany have seats by right, this would almost certainly mean smaller European countries such as the Nordic nations, the Netherlands and Belgium giving up seats.

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