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    Europe is a pretty awful place all things considered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Not exactly. The EU was an expansion of an economic market already in place. The idea was that the European nations would become economically dependent upon one another, so war would be unthinkable.

    The EU should return to that ideal.
    The EU was formed primarily to compete economically with the larger dominate United States.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Xl View Post
    Europe is a pretty awful place all things considered.
    Really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    It was an expansion of trade agreements put in place after the war, but economics are also political, which trade agreements alone don't address, hence the need for a more structured arrangement.
    Hence the disagreements between member states. The primary conflicts are over migration and subsidies for the southern and eastern members of the EU.

    These issues are going to force the EU to remain an economic block- not a political block.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Xl View Post
    Europe is a pretty awful place all things considered.
    LOL. The same thing I think for USA. That Spain thank you to the conservative is closer to a dictatorship, and it is recently. Because in the worst times of ETA, during the 80s and 90s we had more freedom of speech than now. For example, there were even worse lyrics than the ones of that rapper. And nothing happened.

    As I told, for example, in GB there are musicians that have written much worse songs than him, and no problem for them. Or even, in Spain, there have been people that have directly menaced to people, and nothing happened to them. The problem is that the government is using the justice to stop its opposition. So, yes we would begin talking about the beginning of a hard dictatorship ruled by the conservative forces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Hence the disagreements between member states. The primary conflicts are over migration and subsidies for the southern and eastern members of the EU.

    These issues are going to force the EU to remain an economic block- not a political block.
    I guess we'll know when they go to the polls around this time next year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    I guess we'll know when they go to the polls around this time next year.
    It will be interesting to see how Italy and Eastern Europe effects the polls. They don't want to leave the EU; they do want to push power back to the nation-states.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    It will be interesting to see how Italy and Eastern Europe effects the polls. They don't want to leave the EU; they do want to push power back to the nation-states.
    They want all the benefits without any of the compromises.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Xl View Post
    Europe is a pretty awful place all things considered.
    Yeh, who would want to live in a place which gave us the world's greatest art, music, architecture, philosophy and literature - where health care and other human needs are provided for by the state? Where 33,000 people don't shoot each other every year, and where kids don't get shot at school?

    Like who would want to live in a place that looks like this -




    When they can live in a place that looks like this -



    And not only, but also.

    IHDI (Inequality adjusted Human Development Index) rankings -

    1. Norway
    2. Iceland
    3. Australia
    4. Netherlands
    5. Germany and Switzerland

    19. The USA
    20. Slovakia

    Lol, Europe really sucks compared to the USA!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    They want all the benefits without any of the compromises.
    They don't want to be slaves to a bunch of bean counters.
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