From puckish humor and borderline kitsch, a great and serious notion emerges: modern Europe was built on the foundation of classical music, which, as a result, endures tenaciously there.
His Benedictine monks, through great learning, and with great courage preserved the learning of the ancient world, mixed with piety, and used it to lay the foundation of what eventually became Europe.
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It rankles a bit to hear such a marvellous explanation of the forces that created the mid-Atlantic rift that bisects Iceland on the Thingvellir plain near Reykjavik, but no hint that Europe's first parliament, the foundation of one of the most prosperous and democratic societies on earth, met just over a thousand years ago on that exact same spot.
Ultimately, this means rebuilding Europe from the bottom up and laying the foundation for a new era of European growth.
From Europe to Asia, our alliances are the foundation of global security.
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Since this post-war partnership, found elsewhere in Europe only in Belgium, has helped provide the foundation of France's welfare state, the Socialist-led coalition of Lionel Jospin clearly faces a problem.
Almost a year after it launched its Firefox browser, the California-based Mozilla Foundation estimates that more than 30 million desktops in Europe alone have Firefox installed.
Initially, the Model A is only available in Europe but this restriction will be lifted "very soon" said the foundation.
In Europe, the Internet will help to turn the single currency into the foundation of a genuine single market for consumers.
Global Footprint Network and UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), with the support of the MAVA Foundation, will launch the report on October 1 at the two-day conference at Palazzo Zorzi.
However, a study published in 2011 by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation suggests that "widespread" racist and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe are no less common in Germany than in countries such as France, Italy or the Netherlands.
The Nico Colchester Foundation's aim is to help continental writers understand Britain and British writers understand continental Europe.
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Mozilla Europe founder and president Tristan Nitot told CNN that although the numbers were encouraging, the main aim of the foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing open source software, was to promote choice and innovation on the Internet.
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