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You mean if they try any more to be one nation it would be Yugoslavia?
Yugoslavia abolished mostly because of the rise of nationalism. Now if EU wants every country to be the same then we get Yugoslavia. On the contrary if EU lets countries have their indentities and traditions we get probably a more lasting union.
But yeah it is interesting how Yugoslavia split apart after economic crisis and nationalism and now EU is pretty much on the same path with immigrants from Africa and Greece going down. Hopefully history wont repeat itself.
You mean if they try any more to be one nation it would be Yugoslavia?
Yugoslavia abolished mostly because of the rise of nationalism. Now if EU wants every country to be the same then we get Yugoslavia. On the contrary if EU lets countries have their indentities and traditions we get probably a more lasting union.
But yeah it is interesting how Yugoslavia split apart after economic crisis and nationalism and now EU is pretty much on the same path with immigrants from Africa and Greece going down. Hopefully history wont repeat itself.
It was a dark humor joke, meaning that if they were less interested in forming a single country than they currently are, it would be civil war :P
I find the EU to lack any sense of unity. In practice, most the decision power remains in the hands of national governments tied to national electorates (European Parliament is useless, and the few "strong" EU institutions lack any trace of democracy, so they are more useful as scapegoats for national governments -"evil EU imposed this on us, sorry"- than as a centralized decision maker). And "in attitude", everyone goes to EU institutions to see what they can bargain for their own country. No one thinks things in terms of "what would be best for the EU as a whole" - and rightly so, because no one has incentives to do so (they will be kept in office or kicked out by their national electorate, which at this point doesn't care about the EU as a whole, only about direct implications for them).
I find the EU to lack any sense of unity. In practice, most the decision power remains in the hands of national governments tied to national electorates (European Parliament is useless, and the few "strong" EU institutions lack any trace of democracy, so they are more useful as scapegoats for national governments -"evil EU imposed this on us, sorry"- than as a centralized decision maker). And "in attitude", everyone goes to EU institutions to see what they can bargain for their own country. No one thinks things in terms of "what would be best for the EU as a whole" - and rightly so, because no one has incentives to do so (they will be kept in office or kicked out by their national electorate, which at this point doesn't care about the EU as a whole, only about direct implications for them).
If you have 100M € you don't need to work anymore
That is why key to good economy is strong middle class, middle class will keep money flowing while rich will stack wealth.
Big problem is privatization... Capitalism is turning into feudalism...
That is why key to good economy is strong middle class, middle class will keep money flowing while rich will stack wealth.
Big problem is privatization... Capitalism is turning into feudalism...
I don't really understand the purpose of this topic, we already have News Around The World and Worldwar and Political & economic ideologies to discuss the same exact things.
How many of the same topics do we really need to clutter this forum?
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How many of the same topics do we really need to clutter this forum?
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