The Airportline: Observations

Amsterdam is tropical today. Humidity is all round, like a ill fitting dress on a ballerina dancer, it crusades among the canals of the city. And I've biked too much today, and I've been late, gotten directions from a hairdresser, had to argue for my self, and win, and then bike some more, and finally lye in bed and listen to the rain. In other parts of the world, Denmark for example, someone argues that Scandinavians are more intelligent than Rumanians and Bulgarians. This is of course bull shit, which most Danish people probably also recognize, still, one cannot help to wounder, what's up with the Danish?!

DF politican: We are more intelligent
Danish People's Party MEP Mogens Camre has created an uproar both here and abroad by claiming that Rumania and Bulgaria should have fewer seats in the European parliament because their citizens aren't as intelligent as Scandinavians. His comments were immediately dismissed by MEP's from both countries as 'racist', 'discriminatory' and 'childish' and condemned by Danish MEP's. In an interview with the respected French radio station, Radio France International, Mr Camre dismissed Rumania and Bulgaria as 'unhealthy and old-fashioned societies' that should be stripped of their influence on the EU's decision-making process. 'Rumania and Bulgaria have more votes than Denmark, Sweden and Norway yet in my opinion we're far more clever than they are,' he is quoted as saying. Mr Camre will not be standing at the upcoming European elections in June, but his potential successor, Morten Messerschmidt (DF), said he agreed that it's a problem when under-developed countries with an alternative welfare model can vote Denmark down. The Conservatives leading candidate for MEP, former deputy prime minister Bendt Bendtsen, called Mr Camre's comments 'foolish'. br2, dr news