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A perfect summary of Britain position on the EU ,
three decade of watching events have only convinced me of its accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE
Collapse of the eurozone
This financial crisis will be a turning point for the EU’s flawed currency system. Greece will be forced to return to the drachma — triggering a chain reaction which will quickly see Italy, Cyprus, Spain and other southern European countries follow suit and abandon the euro. Greece, Italy (by now back to using its old currency, the lira) and others will declare national bankruptcy and refuse to pay their debts.
Small savers and depositors across Europe will see their investments wiped out, setting off riots. Paralysed by such chaos, the European Central Bank will fail as member states will refuse to fund its losses.
Watch out for an acrimonious battle over who owns the European Central Bank’s billions of worthless debt. In the short term, this will set off a round of crashing stockmarkets and economic depression.
However, there is an up-side. Freed from the straitjacket of the euro, many European countries will bounce back to economic health.
onlooker wrote:However, there is an up-side. Freed from the straitjacket of the euro, many European countries will bounce back to economic health
Czech Republic: We’d Rather Risk EU Penalties Than be Forced to Take Migrants
The Czech Republic is not prepared to accept any more than the 12 migrants it has already taken under the quota scheme set up by the European Union (EU) even if that means facing sanctions, the nation’s interior minister has said.
“Ongoing security checks show that the country can no longer accept anyone else”, said Milan Chovanec, noting that the Czech Republic has so far received 12 of the 1,600 migrants it has been ordered to take in under the terms of the EU quota deal.
Vetting so-called refugees is “complicated”, the minister explained, adding that migrants “have not even been willing to remain in place [in Greek and Italian camps, while security checks take place”.
“We check thoroughly and in detail during the process, which takes between several weeks and more than two months.
“But these people [that the Czech Republic have been told to take in as refugees] were not prepared to remain in place while being vetted. Because of that, we haven’t given them security clearance.”
Confirming that the country “has no further plans to adopt more migrants”, Mr Chovanec raised the issue of repeated threats from Brussels to punish states which are refusing to go along with the EU’s agenda to push migrants from the third world on unwilling countries.
“The Czech Republic does not plan to adopt more migrants”, he said, acknowledging that this stance is likely to result in Brussels imposing sanctions against the country, “perhaps in the range of several million Euros”.
“It is then up to the government to assess if it’s worth paying the penalty or not. In my opinion – yes. You cannot let people here without running all the checks.”
The Czech minister’s position is likely to come as a blow to Brussels, as last week the EU told Hungary and Poland they face legal action if their populist governments continue to resist orders to take in migrants from the third world.
Warsaw and Budapest have strongly opposed the scheme, which seeks to move 160,000 people from Italy and Greece into other EU nations. Fewer than 20,000 people have been resettled so far even though the programme is due to end in September this year.
“If Member States do not increase their relocations soon, the Commission will not hesitate to make use of its powers … for those which have not complied,” the bloc’s executive arm said in a statement.
Italy, along with Germany, Sweden, Austria, and France have been vocal in demanding the EU cut subsidies to Hungary and Poland for their refusal to welcome migrants.
But Reuters reported that, worried about rising Euroskepticism, officials in Brussels are split on whether to open legal proceedings against Hungary and Poland.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
1930: The Plan To Drain And Dam The North Sea And Create DOGGERLAND - Flashbak
IN September 1930, plans were created to increase the size of Europe by linking the British Isles to the Continent. The new one would be called…DOGGERLAND.
Make your own jokes.
North Sea Drainage Project to Increase Area of Europe
If the extensive schemes for the drainage of North Sea are carried out according to the plan illustrated above, which was conceived by a group of eminent English scientists, 100,000 square miles will be added to the overcrowded continents of Europe. The reclaimed land will be walled in with enormous dykes, similar to the Netherland dykes, to protect it from the sea, and the various rivers flowing into the North Sea will have their courses diverted to different outlets by means of canals.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
sparky wrote:.
The UE big problem is of having expanded to the point of being bloated ,
its institutions work on the basis of consensus and Germany paying for it
Germany in exchange is dominating the Whole EU with its economy
The problem is that Germany is leadership shy , especially under the Squid Merkel
her meaningful silences are more like a complete lack of ideas
the Mediterranean South has been castrated by their bad economies
the North Europe is too small to make a difference and on the whole are quite happy to sail with no direction
East Europe are a crazy bunch ,
either stealing everything they can , scratching old wounds to make them bleed anew or getting re-elected of rank populism
the EU however is much more resilient than can be imagined ,
while quite spineless it is as tough as leather , it has the secret of survival ,
it is any public servant dream and a well filled politician trough
compromise for its survival will always be presented
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
argyle wrote: A lot of good regulation comes out of Brussels (tackling issue across an entire economic/political area, which one country on it's own could not have done)
argyle wrote:...the vote was very tight and I wonder if it (referendum) would be the same result now
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