Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Europeans Surveyed About Their Vision For Europe - More Integrated? Bigger Eurozone? - TLDR News" video.

What I don't want is the EU becoming a real nation/state and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone with this. Brexiteers were a little naiv to believe the liars on this. The point is, the EU don't have to there are more than enough better reasons to have it. "United in diversity" is concept at the very core of the EU and having the different cultures, languages and regions still working together and cooperate without loosing their identity is fine and even desirable. It would be a disaster to lose this diversity by being replaced by a centralistic state and/or culture. The problem is most countries and regions are way to small to have political weight on the international level, yet alone on trade-matters, they are just to small and powerless and this is exactly the point where the EU comes in, allowing smaller powerless countries to have influence on other countries inside and outside the EU and especially to giants like US, China, Russia ... and the UK, which would normally play roughshot over them. So more cooperation yes, more standardization especially on topics which concerns the outside of a country, e.g. Trade, Foreign policy/Sanctions, Foreign Aid, Immigrants and things which can only be solved on a multi-lateral level. For example fighting against tax-avoidance, fraud, terror, outside influence on democratic votes and democracy in general, Climate Change, protection, and so on. The EU should be Small on the inside, Large on the outside
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Complete Rubbish. Germans always had a soft spot for the UK. The fact the Germans learn british english as the first foreign language in most cases should be obvious enough. The funny thing is, the opposit is actually true. The feelings of envy and jealousy from some Brits towards Germany is extreme to the point of being disrespectful, offensive and hostile.
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@prouddegenerates9056 And you sound exactly like a Brexiteer only knowning half the facts and tryin to make good reasoning from false impressions. Look for a channel called "I am Incorrigible" and listen to the 100 or so hours of material regarding Brexit. And when you are through with it you understand what the EU does or not does and why Brexit come to pass.
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“The community which we are joining is far more than a common market. It is a community in the true sense of that term." Prime Minister Edward Heath, 1973 You have been conned by the leave-campaigners.
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If you don't want integriation and other things Sweden can singlehandedly veto it for the hole of the EU. You know what veto is do you? ... Probably not if I look at your comment. On the other hand if you leave, you make them a rival on the doorstep and even more likly to become what you not want. And you should re-read about the EU. It has no government, no own sovereignty, it's not a nation, is a con-federation of nations. And you should also read up on the treaties. The EU has absolutely no influence on constitutional matters of the member state completly off-limits. Please inform yourself better next time before spreading disinformation like that.
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Than look into "TLDR" and "TLDR EU" video library. This channel is doing EU video's for a longer while.
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@kirisaki5584 The development projects the EU directly funds circumvent the governments. However you were also right, some funding like the Corona funding goes to the governments because only they know who needs what. And you are right, the people in hungary are deeply concerned the money ends up not where it is needed or at least no all of it. The people don't like it, the EU don't like it. They discussing after the summer pause to find a better solution. Of course it would be better if the countries would change from within and vote a corruption-free government. The EU guarantees sovereignty of the member countries especially on constitutional matters. They can't really do anthing about it for now.
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Reality proved otherwise. The less immigration you do, the more economical problems pops up.
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“The community which we are joining is far more than a common market. It is a community in the true sense of that term." Prime Minister Edward Heath, 1973 You have been conned by the leave-campaigners.
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You clearly listen to much to the haters.
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You forgot to add "... in my opinion" Thankfully opinions arn't facts. Sadly more and more cannot really distinguish anymore that's why everything goes downhill.
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@robertkubrick3738 The German Constitutional Court was about a decission of 2015 about debt-making not quite after procedure. Complety harmless but right-wing media (and you little plum) artifically blowed it up. Interesting side-effect: Court case was made by two top extrem-right wingers (!) in Germany to made a little ruckus. Result: The procedure is adjusted. There is no direct taxation in the EU and until everyone agrees without exception it there will never be there. The Deutsche Bank is restructuring and splitting off the speculative bussiness. The Stock Exchange court is still doing well much better than everyone expected. Besides the Deutsche Bank will be bailed out by Germany if things get too bad ... on even more control and regulation every time they do it. Why don't you shut your ignorant mouth about things you know only half the background off, forced-feeded to you by the right-wing media. I'm so sick of amateurs. When Do you vile-spreading ignorant people understand the EU will not break apart this easily.
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@robertkubrick3738 Robert Ku-Prick indeed :) Belief what you want, nomatter what I say you will stick to it. I let reality speak for itself. Have fun beeing disappointed I'm outta here. I have better things to do than to waste time on an ignoramus.
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It's an anomaly actually. It is rich, but still. 50% of the population earn just 26.000 £ or less. And 95% earn only 80.000 £ or less. How can that be in the richest country of Europe?
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To start the money-printing again, having trade deficit issues again and raging inflation? ... no thank you we had that long enough. It's not working and creating problems for the next generations. Just look at Greece and Italy, they still pay for the sins of their parents and grandparents while the EU is sorting out a way to bring everything back on a better footing so growth is no longer hampered by past financial sins.
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@kenichishibata8717 Corona needed to be dealed with locally. US done the same, even the larger countries like Germany left most of the measures to their states. It would be a little unfair to treat a state with 100 cases the same as one with 10000 cases.
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Poland is scared of the russian neighbour nothing more. Of course Poland is very pro UK and very pro US. Would an EU army maybe change that stance? Let's be fair, the only reason Poland is seeking for a strong bully as friend is to keep the bear on distance.
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Forget it. The very core of the EU is the Germany-France axis. The EU is build on it. Whatever happens they are the ones last leaving the EU.
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@ioan_jivan Please try. The EU can't really intervene its a sovereign matter of Romania and the best change would be some form of change from within from the people. Make the corruption transparent for everyone to see. People hate being lied to and cheated and conned that's the handle you can use to make people hop on the train for change.
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Not really and you will not find support for this idea across Europe. The current model has some shortcommings and needs a some improvements but letting it remain a federation like low is more than enough to make it work.
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@m.meijdam5212 Only speak for yourself please. You don't like it, fair enough. But you don't speak for a majority ... not even in the UK anymore but for them it's too late.
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@m.meijdam5212 Happy Brexit next year. I hope you will not be too disappointed, but I'm afraid reality will teach you one or two things in the next years.
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@m.meijdam5212 They make subsidiaries there to avoid tariffs you little plum, but they will not fully move there or they have to face tariffs to all of the EU customers.
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The EEC/EU was always more than just trade. You just have been told it isn't. The Edward Heath did a speech directly on joining the EEC and said more or less "EEC is more about more than trade". But you listened to the Leave Campaigners who don't wanted you to believe differently because the billionairs in britain fear the political parts because it's meddling in their affairs lately (Lookup ATAD I/II).
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The funding process in the EU was made completely transparent after complains by the members over decades and some years ago the accounting was completly error free for the first time. Contrary to what you can see in other countries like the EU, where mio are lost in dubious Trace and Trace companies not delivering what was needed.
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@kirisaki5584 You mix up government spending and EU spending. The EU tries to finance directly the people who do the projects circumventing the governments because they are as you already said corrupt in a lot of cases and cannot be trusted. For example in the UK the EU financed housing and local development projects the UK government was completly unwilling to. The EU also finance infrastructure projects, but always directly if possible to circumvent the governments.
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- Prove me that one nation in the EU has "unnatural influence" over others. - EU members can open and close their border to their liking. Corona-measures should have made that clear even to you. - The EU cannot interfere in internal matters of member countries, that's called sovereignity and the EU is designed to ensure as much of it as it's possible. UK for example mentions the word "EU" is just 13.8% of all laws. The only things the EU touches are things having effect on all or more than one EU member. - The outer border of the EU is a customs border, it must be controlled to prevent illegal imports and to get tariffs or the imports would flood the market/and or circumvent quality and safety standards. - The Euro ended a ton of problems with currency exchanges and trade deficits. It also stopped the criminal money printing putting the financial debt problem and inflation on future generations. Greece and Italy still pay for financial sins of their parents and grandparents, but it's getting better and as soon as it's fixed the currency is no longer standing in the way of economical growth.
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@shadowbanned3136 Give me your best example / explanation how France or Germany control everyone else? How can they influence a vote in the EU Parliament the place were law is made? Only EU citizens can travel visa free. No Asyl-Applicants, no refugees, no immigrants. And even EU citizens can be made to leave if they not contributing to the society they live in after 3 months. Germany implemented that law as have others UK did not. Outsiders can only apply for asyl like in every other country of the world. Fair enough. Currency is a strange issue. I only want you to be fair. A lot of people just prejudge the Euro because right-wingers made them to belief that instead of actually checking things up first.
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@benefactor8322 The old story of "bad politicians go to Europe" was true for a while, but not anymore, not for 20 years now. The quality is actually improving ... excluding the Brexit Party of course, noone had every thought such idiots would ever be there.
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The Survey and frankly a lot of opinion here disagree with you. EU is more than trade.
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Hello? The EU wasn't even around 85 years ago. And the EEC/EU was precisely made to prevent another war. And so far it worked very well in the last 85 years Europe had zero wars, in the 85 years before 1945 there were 2 world wars and a ton of minor skirmishes.
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@zackgeorgly5099 Balkan was not in the EU at that time and more than half still isn't. Please get your facts straight before posting them.
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@zackgeorgly5099 Well "The EU was founded to prevent another war." is the slogan. I know that Europe has countries not in the EU most recently the UK. However the Balkan states weren't and still are half of them e.g. Serbia.
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@zackgeorgly5099 Fair enough. And still the point is to prevent prevent a war between members. There were no political ties and no major dependencies between the EEC/EU and the Balkan at that time. The way the EU makes peace is by making people dependent on the interconnected Single Market so that it really really hurts if you try to server those connections. Why do you think Blair was convinced from Rubert Murdoch to not join the Euro and Schengen because both creates a new level of connection between the countries which makes breaking away a little harder. nd Murdoch in return made him PM with his newspapers and than removed him with the Iraq war. In retrospect it enabled Brexit and it costs the UK people a lot of money already. 2007 1.99$, 2020: 1.16$ with the Euro instead of the pound the currency would not have suffered such a drop of 45% over 15 years. The Euro is today somewhat over the level during it's introduction. With the Euro in the UK the Euro would even be much more stable it could have been the World Leading Currency by today and almost immune to currency speculation and probably displaced even the Dollar. Why do you think the billionairs wanted to keep the GBP to play with. UK has suffered because of the stubbornness of the British and Europe has suffered because of the stubborn of the British, just a little less. The winner is: Putin, the US and the billionairs.
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You are here on the "TLDR EU" channel. You are welcome to watch and learn but this channel is not really intended for the US. And even if, this channel is not here to petting the bruised selfish egoistic arguments of US republicans with warm lies like so many other channel. If you watch this you get nothing but the truth how cold or warm it might be. If you watch it or decide to ignore it so you can continue to believe whatever you want is your choice. But if you want to "know" instead of "belief" I recommend you stay. P.S. No wonder the US is so f...ck.d up if you think "Clicks" are more important than the truth.
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@10hawell So you actually are afraid of Germany as well ... still? After 90 years?
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UK voted to leave. And voted not to stay in the Single Market. EU has nothing to do with it. They wanted them to stay or at least have a free trade deal.
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@Debarghaya_Mukherjee The UK denied the legal red lines of the EU. There was nothign to negotiate on. The EU would have needed to break their own laws for the UK ... They don't do that. It would risk the Single Market and the 36+ trade deals of the EU with the world. Sorry but UK is neigher important enough to break law, nor to risk the other 92% of exports or the trade deals to over 100 countries on this planet.
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@Debarghaya_Mukherjee You realize that the UK is small fry now between giant Sharks, e.g. US, Russia, China, India soon and of course the EU (8x larger)?
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@Debarghaya_Mukherjee You are right there were French presidents who were against UK's membership in the beginning. Protestants/Catholics? Continental Europe has no issues with this since they had 2 World Wars. The only country still having issues with this in the 20th century is Northern-Ireland. And the EU was founded on the cooperation between Germany and France. Germany payed heavily for that. Country destroyed twice, a large part of the population dead, country seperated for 40 years, all scientists taken away by america, they really started at zero. I found your hole statement out of date and somewhat offensive and divisive.
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@Lleruelu No it just means most Europeans see the EU not only as a trade deal.
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I don't know it's not so bad in the last years, pressure on Belarus, pressure on Turkey, pressure on the US, it's getting better every year a little more.
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@lxathu Well now you talking about internal policy, which is a little more difficult because they are members. And I agree with you, there is a lot of problems still and things to sort out. But it's getting more and better by the year. And hopefully for Hungary and Poland solutions can be found. It would of course be better if the changes would come from within. And in Hungary it looks like the Oppossition is getting their stuff together now.
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@amm287 She has her reasons for doing what she is doing. And the "voters" don't know all the facts she has.
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Can you please vote in a new government not treating you so badly ... and being a little more democratic and maybe a little less corrupt?
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@m.meijdam5212 In a confirmatory referendum the UK would have voted to stay. Brexiteers knew this for a over a year that's why noone from the Brexiteers wanted to allow the public to have another say on the matter. And before you start argueing against it. Keep in mind: Who is the only one not wanting to have a referendum? Right - The person to lose it. If UK would really still wanted to leave, Johnson should had no issues holding one. In any way, it's too late for that. And to your question: I'm not for the EU become a country yet alone a single country. It can stay the way it is, maybe with some improvement here and there, but not with a change like that.
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@m.meijdam5212 An election is not a referendum and if you close check the numbers than you see that hardly 1% more votes for Tory than usual. The only reason why Johnson won is because Corbyn was unelectable even by long-term Labour voters and just didn't vote anyone. And because Johnson was able to convince the 2-3% of Leave voters in Labour swing states the so called Red Wall. If you would do a referendum today, Remain would win with 60% or more. Just to make this clear here. Doesn't matter anyway UK left. A No-Deal Brexit now seems likely unless the Johnson government betrays you again. You won. And all of the UK will pay the price for at least 2 decades if not longer.
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@prouddegenerates9056 Keep an eye out of everything labeled "James O'Brien vs xyz" and "Moron of the Week" starting from 2016 on. Or the short version from 2018 on. Every one of them add a puzzle-piece the later it is the more important it gets for Understanding Brexit and the more important it gets for understanding what the right is currently doing in the US.
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