{"id":12635,"date":"2012-09-09T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2022-07-02T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T21:27:47","slug":"quotation-lxiii-small-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=12635","title":{"rendered":"Small countries."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the first half of the last century, small countries had two problems: security and access to markets. Now, markets have opened, and security threats are from terrorism and network-based crime. All of that means that the disadvantages of small countries have been minimized, and they can use their natural strengths \u2014 such as the speed of decisionmaking \u2014 more effectively.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Alex Salmond (<abbr title=\"Scottish National Party\">SNP<\/abbr>), First Minister of Scotland<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"Separatismus &amp; EU.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=14186\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a> <a title=\"Mehr Kleinstaaten \u2014 mehr Integration!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=20756\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>02<\/code><\/span><\/a> <a title=\"Why Europe should welcome a referendum in Catalonia.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=34913\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>03<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of the last century, small countries had two problems: security and access to markets. Now, markets have opened, and security threats are from terrorism and network-based crime. All of that means that the disadvantages of small countries have been minimized, and they can use their natural strengths \u2014 such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-snp","issue-quotation","location-schottland","language-english","person-alex-salmond","topic-kleinstaaten","topic-politik"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72993,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/72993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}