Turkish generals started to mutter that they might have done better in Brussels if they had joined the Warsaw Pact, not NATO.

土耳其将军们开始抱怨，如果当年加入的不是北约，而是华约的话，也许他们在布鲁塞尔的命运将会更好一些。

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To them, Tsipras is dangerous because he has pledged to tear up his country's controversial bailout pact with Brussels, despite saying he wants the country to stay within the euro.

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French economic policy is hemmed in by a fiscal pact where deficit targets are set in Brussels.

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Faced with an opportunity last December to wring concessions out of Brussels in return for supporting the euro-zone Fiscal Pact, he opted to make highly technical, apparently innocuous but actually implausible demands relating to the City of London, including a veto over single market financial rules.

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