Vacuum

There’s no air drag or wheel contact to sap power and slow you down, so you can go Mach 5 through a long vacuum tunnel without so much as a sonic peep

SYRIZA's choices of candidates for the local elections in October show that the party is out of touch with society. It is also heading fast toward a phase of introversion and contraction, leaving a vacuum in the opposition.

“Vacuum is nothing more than space full of energy & even if we empty it according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that ‘nothing’ has weight”

The economic environment in Europe is becoming increasingly unstable.

The crisis in Italy, with a power vacuum raising the specter of further political upheaval, is sure to have very significant repercussions, both economic and political, in Europe and beyond. That is all but inevitable.

In his first address to the UN Security Council on Thursday, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov called for the speedier integration of the region into EU and NATO, warning of the risk of a "vacuum" that Islamic radicals will try to fill.

"Sooner or later, a vacuum tends to be filled. The European Union must not forget that the Balkans are part of Europe," he said.

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