EU is 25 since today!!!

[Sprafa]

EU is now formed by 25 countries, 10 new ones.

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia have today entered the EU.

What do you guyz think?

 

[h00dlum]

i dont like it cuz all the poor people from lituania etc will come to sweden and use our wellfare system..all they need to do is to work atleast 4 hours a week or be sick to get wellfare for everything..

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

That is not allways the case hoodlum. The newspapers are probably making the situation sound much worse than it actually is. Just like they do in Britain.


Oh and I would like to welcome those new countries

I like the EU. Why you ask? Because I understand what it does for our country. Those who appose it often don't have a clue. And when they do have a clue, well... I just think they are resiliant to change.

Meh, my opinion.

 

[Wilco]

You'll find quite a lot of entreprenuers going to lithuania to set up businesses and coming back rich thus adding a lot to your country.

 

[lePobz]

EU is just another stage in the new world order, soon there will be a single world economy and one leader, and a tenner says its a german.

 

[manny_c44]

The EU is just a legal fourth reich, a bloated culture-decimating entity that is quickly becoming a blind welfare state. The parralels between the European union and the Roman Empire in its last days are all over the place.

Besides, even if all of Europe became one country its economy would continue to slide bcause European populations are dwindling so quickly. The EU really serves no function besides making a select few rich people richer and making Europe's vacation spots more acsessable to the fecking krauts.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

That post is a prime example of what listening to tabloids does to you.



DONT DO IT PEOPLE. DONT FALL FOR THE PAGE 3 GIRLS. READ SOMETHING INTELECTUAL INSTEAD. :thumbs:





Seriously though. The EU is not a bad thing. And if Britains public votes us out in the new referendum then our entire countries ecconomy is right royaly skrewed. And I mean that. Without the EUs bonuses to British business we stand no chance in international trade. Meaning we would have to pay more tax because there is less business to do it for us. And that would leave to people saying labour are crap. People would vote concervative. They would skrew up the country again and we would have to start all over again!




/rant



(I meant every last word)

 

[not28]

You can easily tell who is American and who is European in this thread...

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

Without the EU Ireland would still be a useless backwards agricultural Country......Shite nothing much has changed .
Though seriously the EU has done a hell of a lot for Ireland and its good to increase its size.And I personally cant wait till there is one world government.Makes everything alot easier.

How many people in the EU now anyway?

 

[CyberSh33p]

Without the EU Ireland would still be a useless backwards agricultural Country......Shite nothing much has changed .
Though seriously the EU has done a hell of a lot for Ireland and its good to increase its size.And I personally cant wait till there is one world government.Makes everything alot easier.

How many people in the EU now anyway?

a fellow commie I see

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

No just a Globalist (If there is such a thing)Dont like borders or National markers.I'd say we could do a hell of alot more if there was no chance of a war between states and we could focus on R&D and Scientific development.That and a Global government would rock.(I have little faith in Irish politicans abilities in running a country and the faster people with a clue start makeing descisions the better)

 

[Dedalus]

How many people in the EU now anyway?

over 400 million people.

 

[Sprafa]

The EU has no resemblance with any Reich, Manny. It respects the internacional law much more than the majority of the World.

And patriotism in times of globalization....

 

[el Chi]

i dont like it cuz all the poor people from lituania etc will come to sweden and use our wellfare system..all they need to do is to work atleast 4 hours a week or be sick to get wellfare for everything..

Huzzah! Let's strap on our jack-boots and herd off everyone who doesn't look or speak like us onto cattle trains!
Sorry - that was unconstructive and I wasn't calling you a Nazi, Hoodlum. That'd be a bit harsh.

Even so, this whole: "Foreigners get back to where you come from" thing is ridiculous. Yes Britatin has its problems with immigrants but people take it way too far, as marksman pointed out. The tabloidsare far too sensationalist, and not always because they mean it - often it's so they can sell papers. Except for the Daily Mail. They mean every BNP-fuelled, lie-soaked word. A travesty of a publication.

But anyway, I also agree with Voodoo and Srafa that the coming-together of different governments is extraordinarily beneficial and forward-looking. Think about it: A long time ago, there wasn't an England, let alone a UK. Germany as a state didn't exist until one or two hundred years ago (relatively recently in historical terms, especially given the current progress of the world)
To deny that the world can, will and should get closer and cloaser is ludicrous and backward. It is also rather sadly ironic, seeing as you are on a message board interacting with people from all over the world; links are being formed regardless of state boundaries (things I find quite odd and silly).

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I'm glad that there are people here that dont read tabloid newspapers.


I wouldnt wipe my arse with them. :|




I mean I saw the other day that on every single paper there was stuff about iraq except one. The sun, which had the ENTIRE front page devoted to eastenders (A soap). And people read that thing for the daily news. Its down right depressing. :frown:

 

[el Chi]

I wouldnt wipe my arse with them. :|

I mean I saw the other day that on every single paper there was stuff about iraq except one. The sun, which had the ENTIRE front page devoted to eastenders (A soap). And people read that thing for the daily news. Its down right depressing. :frown:

Mmmm, I agree - sure-fire way to give yourself haemorhoids. Very uncomfortable.
Would the other headlines have been about the pictures of the torture? Because The Sun's info would be scant on that seeing as they were proud and loud supporters of the war.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Yeah, but the other papers didnt just have that. I mean there is parts on ecconomic policy and the like and general political stuff. And then.... Eastenders..... :x

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

I'm all for freedom of the press,but couldnt we get the Tabloids redesignated something else so that we can start makeing sure that front pages arent devoted to Celebrities being adulterous or varius plotlines on the crap soap operas where some guy gets AIDS after haveing an affair with his gay lovers second cousin who recently inherited a fortune from a local business man for saving his dog who had fallen down into a pot of stew which was to be fed by ever present hippy to a bunch of homeless guys while the hippys girl friend was stealing money from the petty cash box which was.......................Oh how I hate those shows.Ban them all I say!

 

[Dedalus]

I'm all for freedom of the press,but couldnt we get the Tabloids redesignated something else so that we can start makeing sure that front pages arent devoted to Celebrities being adulterous or varius plotlines on the crap soap operas where some guy gets AIDS after haveing an affair with his gay lovers second cousin who recently inherited a fortune from a local business man for saving his dog who had fallen down into a pot of stew which was to be fed by ever present hippy to a bunch of homeless guys while the hippys girl friend was stealing money from the petty cash box which was.......................Oh how I hate those shows.Ban them all I say!

that's scary cos i think that's the plot for Emmerdale.

all the bloody same to me.

i think most tabloids are so irresponsible about what they print. they don't seem to realise (or maybe they do) the sorts of thickos that read their shit, and in turn said thickos believe everything they read. especially when it comes to europe.

one good thing, is that english clubs can now buy eastern european football talent without having to apply for work permits, since they're now EU citizens. great stuff eh? no need to worry about giving your player a first team place just to satisfy the work permit. and the other stuff about trade and prosperity is good too i guess.