Thursday, April 7, 2016

Garry on the Ukraine Referendum in the Netherlands (pre-vote)

https://medium.com/@GarryKasparov/a-referendum-on-the-values-of-europe-6cdba4f2d439#.5wgmqxvqk


A Referendum on the Values of Europe

On April 6, the Netherlands will vote in a referendum to approve the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. It includes a free trade pact and stipulations for Ukrainian economic and political reform. It all sounds boring enough to be settled by politicians and bureaucrats, and not a matter for a referendum.

See the full text at the link above. So that's how far a world chess champion can sink, becoming just another political commentator (well, at least in the FIDE era - let's not start about Alekhine...)

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