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[primer]

EU wants to sign a free trade deal with India, China 2.0 and Russian supporter? Economically and politicaly short sighted.
India has one the most protected ecomomies, Aussie free trade deal dairy excluded. It will be a deal that advantages India and their notorious phamaceutical copied pills in brown bags, that's off the table.
Trump asked for colluding in 100% secondary tariffs and Ukraine is all but an EU country.
They are looking a little absurd.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

The Uncle Zsolt Identity

Why is Orbán's party in panic mode because of random unfounded accusations?

museonadiet.substack.com

 

[Musashi]

A good idea to make far-right parties even stronger:

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[muck]

So … Ireland has voted, with the largest vote ever, for their most left-leaning president ever. Catherine Connolly. On the campaign trail, that hag embraced mass immigration from Africa; called for the arrest of Israeli officials and the boycott of Israeli companies; proposed the Irish Defence Forces could be abolished; and likened the German Chancellor to Hitler, accusing Germany of pushing the European Union towards war with Russia. What a fascinating person.

 

[BravoZulu]

So … Ireland has voted, with the largest vote ever, for their most left-leaning president ever. Catherine Connolly. On the campaign trail, that hag embraced mass immigration from Africa; called for the arrest of Israeli officials and the boycott of Israeli companies; proposed the Irish Defence Forces could be abolished; and likened the German Chancellor to Hitler, accusing Germany of pushing the European Union towards war with Russia. What a fascinating person.

The only good thing about it IMHO is that the Irish president is mostly ceremonial and has no input on legislation

 

[Mike1976]

The only good thing about it IMHO is that the Irish president is mostly ceremonial and has no input on legislation

And what makes you think they're going to be voting any different in the next general election?

 

[BravoZulu]

And what makes you think they're going to be voting any different in the next general election?

I DID say "the only good thing"......I just hope the feelings over facts brigade end up in the minority but I'm not hopeful

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Two Swedish leaders expose Europe’s centre-left migration dilemma | Euractiv

"We are way stricter on migration and on crime than we were before," said Magdalena Andersson, head of the Swedish Social Democrats

www.euractiv.com

Sweden to lower age of criminal responsibility to 13 amid gang violence crisis | Euractiv

Swedish police estimated in 2024 that 1,700 under-18s were active members of criminal networks

www.euractiv.com

 

[Hiryu2.0]

EU’s conservatives hurtle toward reckoning over far-right taboo

The European Parliament’s center right weighs turning its back on historical mainstream alliances in its push to cut red tape.

www.politico.eu

 

[Hiryu2.0]

How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy

The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all while continuing to demand NGOs monitor consumer protections that governments refuse to fund...

euobserver.com

 

[Redav]

A good idea to make far-right parties even stronger:

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This can only be on purpose

 

[primer]

Why not be honest an hire a cruise ship for them.

 

[Musashi]

@Mike1976
Any thoughts?
Why did the Dutch veer to the left?

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[muck]

Would be interesting to see voter shift patterns. Where did Wilder's votes go, where did Jetten's votes come from?

 

[PEMM]

@Mike1976
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Why did the Dutch veer to the left?

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Why people turn from left to right and back after next election?

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[Redav]

@Mike1976
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[Musashi]

Old Geert retwatted this:

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Anyway, I believe D69, rather than D66, would suit a name of a liberal party much more.

 

[Redav]

Anyway, I believe D69, rather than D66, would suit a name of a liberal party much more.

Dutch69

 

[Picanha]

The EU is really daft and seems to walk on eggs giving the slightest pressure.

That's not good. Brussels technocrats need to learn some strategic lessons.

First they ignored the problems China will make once having a purposefully built monopoly.

Second they weren't able to build up capacities to nullify pressure from China. Always hoping for the same thing which will never materialise. A somewhat westernized China with international obligations it fulfills.

It's an autocratic one party ruled country with mind control get over it and deal with them accordingly.

Adding to that the EUs purchasing of 300 bill. of Chinese goods is such a big lever that China would get enormous problems not being able to sell their overproduction as their market is ever shrinking and deflating. They already reroute their excess capacities.

The aim must be to be totally independent from them in the future.