In Eŭropa Bulteno van oktober 2016, Nummer 164, publiceerde Laszlo Tisljar als bijdrage: KIEL ESPERANTO POVUS GRAVE FORTIGI LA INFLUON DE EU EN ALIAJ MONDOPARTOJ – HOE ESPERANTO DE INVLOED VAN DE EU IN ANDERE WERELDDELEN FORS ZOU KUNNEN VERSTERKEN.

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De Britse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Boris Johnson, besloot de conferentie van de Conservatieve Partij op 2 oktober 2016 met een citaat van WC : "Empires of the future are empires of the mind". Net voordien had hij het over de ’zachte macht’ – dit is: de niet-militaire invloed in de wereld – met in het centrum, zo zei hij, de Engelse taal. Hier de volledige weergave.

And that is soft power – the vast and subtle and pervasive extension of British influence around the world that goes with having the language that was invented and perfected in this country and now has more speakers than any other language on Earth and up the creeks and inlets of every continent on Earth, there go the gentle kindly gunboats of British soft power captained by Jeremy Clarkson – a prophet more honoured abroad, alas, than in his own country, or JK Rowling who is worshipped by young people in some Asian countries as a kind of divinity, or just the BBC – and no matter how infuriating and shamelessly anti-Brexit they can sometimes be, I think the Beeb is the single greatest and most effective ambassador for our culture and our values. And it was Sergei lavrov himself who told me that he had not only watched our version of War and Peace, but thought it was "very well done" and that, from the Kremlin, was praise.)

http://www.europo.eu/eo/documentloader.php?id=460&filename=eb-164-2016-10.pdf