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@Peter Gaskin
It never came to an agreement, because the USA were demanding, that the EU27 accept imports of chlorinated chicken, gen manipulated crops, hormon boosted beef (all without the duty of declaring those issues) and that US companies can claim each EU member state for a "loss of profit", in case EU laws/ regulations might/are changing, so a US company "might had to change its product, or can't/ couldn't export it to the EU27 anymore (even though this "product" would not exist yet, when EU changed anything, it would have been a "free ticket" for US companies permanently claiming), therefor the US companies could claim for compensation any time.
The EU27 negotiators simply didn't accept any of those demands.
So if the UK/GB is hoping for an trade deal with the USA, it will have to accept all of these demands, or there won't be a deal, simple as that.
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@TALESCOFFEE NO.
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
The EUs Council = the EUs member states GVTS and the democratic elected MEPs are the rule/law/decision makers in the EU.
EVERY EU member state has one voice, Malta (about 550.000 people) the same as Germany (about 84ish million people), every EU member state has one voice.
The EUs SM/EEA is there to benefit its 450ish million citizens, so they can = live, trade, work, travel as they can do in their own countries.
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Sorry, but it has never been that bad as it Is recently, most of those flooded villages,towns, cities had never been flooded before, this is why there are all these dykes, pumping stations, flood gates, barriers etc...
This time it was the combination of four storm surges, melting water from the Harz mountains and permanent rain since three weeks...as the north sea is pushing inlands, the rivers, streams etc can't get rid of their waters towards the sea...
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Greetings from Bremen 👋
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Oh dear....😂
The UK is NATO member, same as most EU and EFTA member states...
Joining "the EUs SM/EEA" is for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
The UK has the TCA...
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Right now the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is applying for full EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST..
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment..
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria..
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@binkyboobosh1 Problem only is, there is no "re-joining the SM", because:
only two options are available, either EFTA or full EU membership.
Norway (EFTA) is stating since years, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA, as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Access to the SM always and only comes with the four freedoms (free movement of goods, people, services, capital, within the EU), accepting the European High Court and paying the membership fee = full EU membership.
Just "joining" the SM never ever existed, as it was just the "fairy tale dream/ cherry picking" of the Brexiteers, either because of not understanding, how the EU works, or because they thought, the UK/GB is too special, or both.
And to join the EU as full member again, the UK/GB has to apply as every other country, which wants to become an EU member, by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, still every of the EU27 member states can veto the UK/GB joining the EU, and after that the UK/GB might get the status as an "candidate for EU membership", then the negotiations with the EU27 might start, all of that could take decades.
No "fast track", no exceptions for any country in the world, as stated recently by the EU Commission, not even for the Ukraine being at war.
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@Apsoy Pike The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Btw, since September no Russian nat gas imports anymore (apart from Hungary).
Germany is/ has been forwarding nat gas to the Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Tchechia and some other countries.
All those mentioned countries had to fill up their nat gas buffers before winter.
France had to shut down half of its nuclear power plants because of low water levels in the rivers due to the recent heat wave and urgently needed maintenance ( still ongoing), therefor Germany is doing the back up power for France and sending six times more electricity to France as normally.
About 80% of France's electricity gets produced by nuclear power and the French are heating with
electricity.
48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables ( wind, solar, water).
Most of the nat gas is used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc, and as written before, will be replaced by green hydrogen.
Btw, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27. Therefor: the EU27 are doing good ...
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@barvdw
The acadamics, when both have the title, don't call each other that.
Neither do people, like neighbours, collegues or whatever call each other that.
I only call my doctors of medicine that, or if writing an official letter, that's it.
As I'm from the North, the people over here tend to say more "Du", because of the Lower Saxon language, as there no "Sie" exists.
Therefor easy going. It really depends on, in which region/Federal State one is living 😊
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@lhmsc
When you're paying about €700 per month for your healthcare than your salary must be pretty good, as the monthly healthcare fee is ALWAYS A FIXED PERCENTAGE of your salary, apart from you have private insurance. But as you're saying, that your employer is paying the other half, than it's the fixed percentage.
That hospitals have "weird" opening times is only for visitors, visiting people in hospital, not though for AE, thats open 24/7.
What could be, that the hospital were you live, decided, that people, instead of going to the GP, "plastering" the AE with banal issues, don't get treated anymore, as they are "stuffing up" the AE, while the real emergencies get hindered to be treated.
Add on: all doctors are in duty to have one day a week with so called "open consultation".
You need to "bring" a bit of time with you as it's without appointment, but inner one week you would be able to see the doctor ...
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@huawafabe You're doing a comparison with high German, like this guy is doing as well.
If you take the Nedderdüütsch/Lower Saxon language, then you'll see, where parts of English are coming from.
Nedderdüütsch is still spoken here all along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea), by about 4 million Germans.
E the, LS de, G der, die, das
E water, LS water, G Wasser
E school, LS school, G Schule
E he, she, me, you/ LS he, se, mie, yi/ G er, sie, mir/mich, du/Sie
E clock/ LS klock/ G Uhr
So "ten o'clock" would be "klock tein" or "zehn Uhr"
Ah, and the origin "bone" in old German is "Bein/Knochen", this is, why it's called "Eisbein".
Groetens ut Bremen
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@ChristopherFynn001 The problem/ misunderstanding most Brits have until now is, the thought of "just being in the SM = soft Brexit", would "sort it", eventhough "this version" never existed.
Either full EU membership or EFTA, those are the available options. The "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore, as stated by EU Commission, because off to "much hustle".
The EFTA (Norwegian modell) isn't available either, as Norway has stated since 2016 until today, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
While the Brexit negotiations went on, the British negotiators were demanding continiusly and exactly that: full access to the SM without the duties coming with it (four freedoms - free movement of goods, people, services, capital), the payment of the "member fee" plus accepting the European High Court. Not understanding, that the SM is the core/ heart of the EU and therefor highly protected. Btw, the EU27 offered up to the end of the transition period/Brexit negotiations, that if wanted, the UK/GB could stop the Brexit, which the UK/GBs Gvt permanently refused.
"Reversing/re-joining isn't an option either, as there isn't a "fast track" for any country in the world, not even for the Ukraine being at war. Therefor the UK/GB has to follow the procedures for joining the EU: receive an EU "application form including a very long list of issues which have to be fulfilled/Copenhagen Criteria" by then hopefully non of any of the other EU27 member states have vetoed the UK/GB to join the EU, and only then you might get the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the real negotiations with the EU would start, which could take decades.
Btw, there is severe education needed about the EU, how it works and what it's for, should start already at school.
If you're interested, read about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe" and his idea of an European Union, which started in the 1920s.
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@trickslies844
Say whatever you want = it's happening already now = passporting is back in the EU since January this year, June 2025 Euroclearing will follow..
And YES, it's part of the EUs SM = FOM for capital = and the EUs Single Market IS NOT a "platform", but to allow ALL EUs citizens to trade, live, work, travel within 27 countries as in their own countries...
The EU27 wanted to have those services within the EU back after the financial crisis in 2008, but the UK went to court, claiming, that eventhough it's NOT in the €/Euro zone, but EU member state, therefor "is intitled to take care of those services"..
Due to Brexit the EU27 got only back, which should be taken care iof within the €/Euro zone, and not in a 3rd country, which isn't trustworthy ..
Moving those services had been prepared by all involved institutions since the referendum happened..eight years ago..
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@Itz_Hawks
It's not about money, but infrastructure, like housing/no capacities left, schools/teachers for language etc, doctors/people have to checked for illnesses/vaccination etc, food supply, civil services/ when there is a village with 500 or 1000 people living there and 50ish people are coming in New per day, how do you think, it's going...
Or Lampedusa, with 5000 people living there, 120 boats arrived on one day with 6000 people. I wonder, how you would feel...
Also all of those volunteers, which are doing support since 2010, when it all started, are exausted, as they have to start every time from the beginning...
Looking at the video, those two guys from Gambia and Cameroon are from safe contries, therefor no right to claim for asylum...
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@russmarkham2197
It's NOT "Uk bashing...and nobody is saying, that the UK can't get back in" It's rather simple facts, like =
the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
The EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Copenhagen Criteria = all available at Wikipedia
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@jamesgreen1116
Well, they didn't "invade", but were there, to calm down the situation...meanwhile the Taliban were hiding in Pakistan...
Building the needed infrastructure, like schools, water supply, hospitals, schooling for girls, education for girls and women, etc = ALL of that didn't help, to get the support of the other half of Afghanistan's population = men
As a change of mindset/mentally has to come from within the population, which wasn't visible......therefor the NATO blue helmets left..
Weirdly not even six months after the evil West left, Taliban were crying for humanitarian aid/money, food, medical units etc...
Allah should help 😂
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@prettsmedia Germany's population: 83,13 million (2021),
Country's were German is spoken: Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol/Italy, Switzerland, partly Belgium, partly Tchechia, partly Romania, partly the Netherlands and some parts in South-America (Argentinia/Brazil). Alsace-Lorraine/France
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@Kasper It's not up to the UK/GB to "rejoin", it's the EU27s decision to wether send an invitation with a long list of "things" which have to be fulfilled to reach the status as a "EU membership candidate", then, if the required things/=EU standards are fulfilled, the negotiations for EU membership can start (could take decades), and only then, if no EU member vetoes, the UK/ GB could be an EU member again. As a third country no other way around, no fast track because of being an ex EU member, no exceptions possible either.
On top of that, after bashing the EU for 40 years there is education needed, about how the EU works and what it is all about, otherwise it doesn't make sense at all, and with the next elections Brexit 2.0 could happen.
Btw, the EU never was an "economic block", but first of all a peace project, which is using trade as one of aspects to keep peace in between the European country's, but also the FOM is doing its work, bringing peace, friendship, solidarity (hopefully) and better understanding of each other into the European family.
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@ david cousins I'm sorry to say, there is no "Swiss deal" available anymore, stated by EU Commission, because off "too much hustle". EFTA or full EU membership are the only options.
Norway (EFTA) stated since 2016 until now, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining EFTA, as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
"Reversing/re-joining" the EU isn't possible either, stated by EU Commission: no "fast track" for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine, being at war.
Therefor the following procedures will/have to take place: the UK/GB has to ask for the EUs "application form" which comes with a very long list of issues following the CopenhagenCriteria, which have to be fulfilled. If by then non of any of the EU27 member states has vetoed the UK/GB joining the EU, the UK/GB might get the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the real negotiations with the EU start, which could take decades.
No exceptions for any country in the world.
Forgot to say: there is severe education needed about the EU, how it works and what it's all about, should allready start at school. If you're interested, have a look up about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe" and his idea of an European Union, which started in the 1920s.
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@lellyparker Five years ago the EU27 negotiators offered ALL available deals/treaties/modells to the UK/GB, which the British Gvt refused vehemently all the time, because:
the British negotiators were demanding continiously full access to the SM without any of the coming duties with it, which is the case with all of the mentioned before treaties (Swiss modell, Norwegian modell = EFTA).
This was the attitude, the EU is calling:cherry picking/ fairy tale dream of the Brexiteers.
Meanwhile the "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore, as stated by the EU Commission, because of "too much hustle". And Norway (EFTA) is stating since 2016, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA, as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The only option is joining the EU as a full member, but therefor the UK/GB has to go the official way like any other country now, applying for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria. No "fast track", no exceptions for any country in the world, as the EU Commission stated recently, not even for Ukraine, being at war.
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@gazza595
The UK joining the EU again will go like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Estimated time needed for a country, joining the EU, about 15ish years, AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria...as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators, due to experience of other countries "joining process".
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria recently...
Before any of this might happen, it would be urgently needed education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs (with PR), working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0 " again.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@binkyboobosh1 NO.
It doesn't matter, if you or the UK/GB "do or don't accept" the four freedoms, as they are always coming along with the all mentioned before issues:
SM, four freedoms, paying the membership fee, accepting the European High Court = full EU membership.
That or none of it, no "cherry picking" or exceptions for any country in the world, as the SM is the core/heart of the EU and therefor highly protected.
Btw, the EU27 are fine without the UK/GB. The EU27 has moved on, Brexit is no subject anymore, as written before, infact the EU27 have progressed quite well since Brexit.
Being "usefull for the EU" is no criteria for anything.
For your better understanding of how the EU works and what it's for I recommend to look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe" (born in Luxembourg, then German, later French), who's idea of the European Union started in the 1920s.
Greetings from the EU
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@terrydaktyllus1320
To "re-join" no negotiations are needed, but it goes like that only:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership ", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (if not done properly, joining process stops instantly), which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU is about 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, they know about the needed timespan due to experience of other countries joining process.
At the moment the UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria.
Also needed urgently in the UK is education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament (with PR) and its democratic elected MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0 " again.
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@horatio8213
It's all available in the Inet, which all of us are using here...
Giving you a hint... first one was agreed 1945, that the NEW Polish-German border will be the
"Oder-Neisse-border", while Poland would loose territory to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, because Russia wanted that Polish land.
Compensation for those Polish losses on its eastern borders would be the German territories on its western borders.
Those new borders, which were decided by the Allies, got confirmed various times again, 1970, 1989, 1990....
Germany lost 20% of its eastern territory to Poland, those territories were East-and West Pomerania, Silesia.
Btw, before doing the usual "German bashing", it might enlighten you, to look up about your own history about the so called "British Empire = invading, occupation, so called colonialism", which had cost about 165 million peoples lifes....
nothing really, to be "proud about" either...
Add on: it's like with the NIP/Windsor agreement, when the UKs Gvt would "leave" the ECHR, the TCA and the NIP/Windsor agreement would be "crashed" as well, because being in the ECHR is part of the TCA and NIP/Windsor agreement.
Same goes for those International treaties, those agreed borders are fixed, if one gets "moved", the other borders agreed in those treaties would be
"at the disposal" again...
Greetings from the EU27 🇪🇺🖐
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@alpey8487
Germany has 20 US nukes on its territory, and has an agreement with the US, to "use" those/in cooperation with the US Gvt, this is why the German air force has bought 35 F-35 fighting jets, because they are "nuke ready".... In case you forgot, Germany still has military restrictions due to WWII, same goes for Austria...
But, as we're living in 2023, the Nato troops are working/cooperating together smoother then ever... as seen in the last two Nato maneuvers earlier this year ="Nato air defender 2023" and "Nato northern coast 2023"
Btw, the Nato partners UK and Germany are doing the air policing at the Baltics since 2014, always with a British/German cockpit crew 😊
Greetings 🖐
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@ralfulrich6254
My answer was to that guy, who claimed "don't give money to Ukraine anymore, give it to the farmers"...
And I know very well, that not all farmers are the same...half of my neighbours are farmers ...you should be aware, that it's not about the Diesel subsidies only, but about the way, farming is handled since decades...
I wonder, if you're one of those, who is "standing 100% with the farmers", but then buys 5 kgs of meat for € 1,50... 😎
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@StoutProper The German Kaiser (as useless as he was) wrote a letter to the Austrian Kaiser, stating that there is no need to start a war, because of the recent situation.
Austria started the war by attacking Serbia, the Russians being allied to Serbia, started and therefor Germany, being allied to Austria, started, and so on ....
Historians of today have done lots of research about WWI, coming to the result, that ALL western Nations were "hot" to go into that war, because of their Nationalisms at that time.
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@emm_arr 🙄
The Treaty of Rome in 1957 set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
The EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
The UK is NOT a founding member...
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@billyhughes805 First of all: a bit more respect, Mr Nobody, please!
I don't talk on behalf of anybody, but, opposit to the British public it seems, we as EU citizens are mostly quite well informed, because the EU Commission is stating quite regular recent issues/decisions, like for example that one, I mentioned : no fast track, no exceptions, stated some weeks ago by Ursula v d Leyen.
Guy Verhofstadt is a very ambitioned politician, when he was in London joining the "re-joining march", he really and only spoke on his behalf, btw, this is, what he is doing since years.
Aside from that nobody else of EU politicians is talking about that subject, I'm sorry to say.
It's also common over here in the EU, to watch the EU Parliament on TV/ Inet when working, same as with National Parliaments.
Greetings from the EU
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@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat Sorry, but you're wrong about those "Germanic" tribes/ settlers. First of all: the word "Germanic" was made up by the Romans, and they called ALL tribes, living at the right side of the river Rhine "Germanic", as that was the eastern outside border of the Roman Imperium. Those tribes, living on "Germanic" ground, didn't call themself "Germanic" at all.
Btw, the Frisians, Chauken, Saxons (as you're going that far back in history), were living on the territory of todays "Lower Saxony", Frisia (with it's own language "Frisian" is part of Lower Saxony as well as part of Holland (which is part of the Netherlands). In Lower Saxony the language "Lower Saxon/ Lower German/ Nedderdüütsch" is still spoken, you can even study it at the University of Goettingen/Lower Saxony. Nedderdüütsch/ Lower German and the Frisian language are protected languages by the UNESCO.
The tribe of the Jutes were in Danmark of today, Jutland also still exists, it's a Danish Island. The Scandinavian tribes didn't "invade" to settle at Frisian, Saxon/ Chauken land, they were living at those areas of todays Skandinavia.
Btw, the Anglians are still part of "Angeln/ Anglia", in Schleswig-Holstein in the very North of todays Germany, where the language Nedderdüütsch/ Lower German is spoken as well.
The Franks spoke "Allemanic", Franken of today is part of Bavaria, the Franks "Capital" is Nuremberg.
You can see it like that: all main "Germanic tribes" from about 2000 years ago (in todays Germany) are still there and building the Federal States of Germany. The Bavarians, Suebes,
etc. The Prussians were a side line of Indo- Germanic Baltic tribes. The Teutons were living at the border areas between todays Danmark and Germany's Schleswig-Holstein.
Btw, the Frisian and Lower Saxon
languages are partly the roots of todays English language. Words like school (English)= school (Lower German), clock (English) = clock (Lower German), us (English), us (Lower German), he, she, me, you (English), he, se, mi, yi (Lower German), water (English), water (Lower German), and so on 😉
So "clock tein"/ Lower German is "ten o'clock" in English. In German: "zehn Uhr". Even the "Welsh" is an origin "Lower German" word, and means: the other ones, the ones from abroad, the strangers, and the "Welsh" land the Anglo- Saxons were calling that land "abroad" from their territories in todays England.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@StillAliveAndKicking_ Oh dear...
It's actually €2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable and appreciated 😁
Looks like, that you "over heard", that "he" also stated, that all of this subject "ISN'T OFFICIAL, but some 12 EUs citizens had a brainstorming about this".
Btw, THIS subject had been "discussed" in 2013 already shortly, it was off the table since...
Again: IT'S NOT UP TO THE UK to decide, when and with which conditions it could join the EU, but the EUs decision only...
Add on: you were stating in one of your earlier posts, that "the EU would force you to obey...., no thank you"... your words.
I'm asking you now, how does it come that on one hand, you want to desperately (and kabooom, we just join the EU again) join the EU, but DON'T like the coming criteria/rules of it, claiming already upfront, that you don't like this or the other, what ever that might be....
Look, ALL EU membership rules/laws/criteria are well known and visible at the EUs Commission site...
If one/UK doesn't like the membership/Club rules of that club/EU, it wants to join so desperately (because of economical desperation), then it SHOULD STAY OUT OF THAT CLUB, as simple as that...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@philjames6206 It might sound cold hearted, but there were times in the last six years, where messages from the EU Commission appeared in the media, saying, that "the EU has other and more important things to do then just spinning around Brexit".
Diplomatic speak for : "enough is enough".
The EUs negotiators were very patient with the UK/GB while the Brexit negotiations and offered up to the last minute all variants including to stop the whole Brexit = everything is as before, but the British negotiators were refusing all of those well meant offers, therefor: NO, the books are closed, Brexit is done, that's it (btw, also stated by the EU Commission).
Greetings from the EU
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@Apsoy Pike Well, as I wrote, it's not solar only. And there are so called "fluid salt" storage batteries as another option to hydrogen as a storage battery.
Nuclear power, as we could see this summer, isn't a real option = no water, no cooling. And most of the needed Uranium is from Russia.
Btw, Germany on its own has cooperations with 10 other countries worldwide to produce green hydrogen.
Again, hydrogen can also be used as raw material for proceeding things and as storage battery.
The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have this project called
" green hydrogen coast line", all subsidiesed by the EU and the Gvts.
It's on the way all over the EU27, hydrogen is the future 😉
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@StoutProper Bremen here 😉
Lots of todays English language is based of the Lower Saxon and Frisian languages, when the Anglo-Saxons arrived in todays England. Of course other were addited to that, and about 1200 years change every language, but, there are still lots of words in common, like:
E school/LS school/ G Schule
E water/ LS water/ G Wasser
E clock/ LS klock/ G Uhr
E sister/LS soster/ G Schwester
E the/ LS de/ G der, die, das
E he, she, me, you/ LS he, se, mie, yi/ G er, sie, mir/mich, du/Sie
E ten/ LS tein/ G zehn
So "ten o'clock" = "klock tein" =
"zehn Uhr".
In case, you're Welsh?!
Thats also a Saxon word, and the meaning is "the other ones, the ones from abroad, the strangers".
When the Saxons arrived in todays England, they were calling all tribes, living to the west of their territories " de Welschen/ the Welsh".
Btw, if you're moving into another town/ village in the North of Germany, you're still "de Welschen".
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
Gruesse aus Bremen
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@Yak
About 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water).
Germany didn't and doesn't have electricity problems, it's even delivering electricity towards France (which had problems with its nuclear power plants because of low water levels in the rivers due to the recent heat wave and urgently needed maintenance (still ongoing).
Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27.
Germany is/was forwarding nat gas to Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Tchechia and some other countries as well.
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Add on: please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which will build a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Not only cars get build in Germany but all sorts of machineries/technologies etc as well 😊
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The "Russian nat gas issue" has been sorted already in August 2022, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27 prices are below to the prices before the war.
The EU27 are doing ok, Brexit isn't even an issue anymore either...
Btw = every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
One of the criteria is to have a national debt of max 55-60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently, hence the UK needs to grt rid off about £ 1 trillion debts...that'll take quite a while...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
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@petelucas51
Forgot to say, eventhough Ukraine is experiencing the "Russian special military operation" since 2022, the EU27 didn't let it join the EU27, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times "no fast track, no opt outs, no exceptions, no cherry picking , for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war"...
Ukraine received the staus as a "candidate for EU membership", but it still will take about 10-15 years AFTER the war started, until Ukraine can join the EU27..
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@James
"The German's" mostly love the Brits 😉
But, most of them have this image of :
"Miss Marple, Rosamunde Pilcher, great fashion, fantastic music, lots of fog (even though it was smog, but that "info" never arrived over here "gg"), Pubs, etc"
in their minds when thinking of Brits .... unfortunately Brexit is on that list now as well ...
One thing could be a point: the language.
Most German's are speaking English (like the Dutch), but what isn't liked so much is, when a foreigner lives in Germany since years, but still just speaks the own mothertongue.
At least one should show good will to learn the German language.
My London born spouse has been doing quite well with the German language...
All the best to you with greetings from Bremen 😉
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Yes.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment...
Instead the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as the UK hasn't been implementing properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27...
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27..
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
January this year the "passporting" went back into the EU27.
June 2025 the "Euroclearing" will be back in the EU27, then Brexit is complete, as the transition period of FOM for capital ends June 2025.
That will be a huge loss for the City of London, as those financial services are making up about one third of worlds market for clearing services = a value of £ 260 trillion per year...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST..
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when..
I'm very sorry for all of you over there, which didn't want this, not though for those ones, which voted for it...
All the best with greetings from the EU27 👋
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@frostbitethebookowl8996
I don't have "fear", myself being part of a family including six different Nationalities, it's just a "pain in the neck", as those are always the same sort of people doing that.
Never heard about those "peace judges", they "sort" everything, even murder etc.
Yes, the German law system is taking care of those people, and yes, most of those sort of respect the German society, but, as everywhere else, others not, thinking, they are "special", therefor above the law.
Btw, some time ago a film team wanted to take/ shoot some "scenes" in that shown area, the whole film team including actors were there until one of those Clan members came, spoke with the director and stated, if they stay, there will be severe problems, the Clan doesn't allow this here. No joke, they had to go to Babelsberg Film Studios and do the "takes" there. Not on !!
And that's got nothing to do with anything apart from not accepting the law of the (any) country you're living in.
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@DilanPerera1
Well, the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades...
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
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@lellyparker
Well, doesn't really come across like that, when "British people" are still demanding, to "join the EUs SM asap, a bit of FOM included"...
Right now the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership.
Joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries !!
According to article 126 of the EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
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Yes.
Infact todays English is based on Lower Saxon language...not so much on todays high German !!
Lower-Saxon = English
he, se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat/wat = that/what
de = the "d " = "th"
(no der, die, das)
us = us
open = open
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
clock tein = ten o'clock
Lower Saxon language gets pronounced "German style" but with a "rrr" rolling "r" 😊
About 4ish million Germans living along the coast lines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea are still speaking Lower-Saxon language..
Lower Saxon = Nedder Düütsch
Lower Saxony = Neddersassen
Todays English term "Welsh" origins from the ancient Saxons, which were living in todays England, they were calling ALL tribes living to the west of their territory (todays England) = de Welschen/the Welsh, and the meaning is "the other ones, the strangers, the ones from abroad".
The Dutch from the Holland regions and Germans speaking Lower-Saxon language can easily chat as well ...
Greetings from Bremen 👋
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@billyhughes805 Me again 😉
I can understand your anger about this situation, you're stuck in. What makes me wonder, when various EU citizens and others are telling the people here, whats possible and what not, which is ment to clear the situation of Brexit Britain, to avoid that the people have hope for solutions which don't even exist. So at least you have a chance to adjust to this, yes terrible, situation.
"My" London born spouse had to go through application for dual citizenship over here, half of our family are Brexiteers, so it's not like cheap talk from EU Continent, like most of the EU citizens here are involved in this drama.
Greetings from the EU
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@Billy Hughes 😉
The British Gvt did a "proper job",
getting dual citizenship was only possible while the UK/GB was an EU member, after Brexit not possible anymore, you have to "give up" your British citizenship.
We extra went to an lawyer for immigration rights, and she told us about that and recommended to hurry up with the application, which we did. The German Gvt extra installed a "fast track" for Brits, meaning, the from all authorities and institutions needed check ups were done parallel and not one after the other, therefor it only took 2 months instead of up to six.
The communities were also writing letters to all Brits, informing them about the consequences of Brexit.
30% more than normal applied for dual citizenship, all of them were Brits.
All the best to you and have a nice Christmas as well 😉
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@wakey87
This is the unfortunate way most of Brits see the EU27, still not aware, this peace project called EU27 is the best thing ever what happened to the European Continent.
As you can see at Ukraine what can happen, when another (neighbour-) country shows "Imperial hunger".
You Brits (btw, I'm married to one 😉) are living on an Island, therefor borders can't be "pushed around", like Germany, which has NINE DIRECT BORDER COUNTRIES, it's an absolute necessacity to work in cooperation with your neighbours.
And as a big union of 27 countries with about 450ish million people living here, it's about:
all for one, one for all, together we're strong.
Greetings from the EU27 😉
Add on: in case you're interested, please look up for:
Robert Schuman, the " father of Europe", born in Luxembourg ( then German, later French), who's idea of an European Union started in the 1920s....
Add typo 😉
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@MSD Group
It's NOT up to the Brits to decide to be an EU member again or not.
Re-joining isn't possible/no option.
The UK/GB has to apply for EU membership with fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if by then NONE of the EU member states vetos, the UK/ GB might get the status as an "applying candidate for EU membership", after that the real negotiations start, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no "fast track" for any country in the world as stated by the EU Commission.
The figures of Germany's economy were released today on the news, therefor available everywhere.
And France's raise of retirement age will be a good one, as it isn't the first EU member state doing so.
Add on: the "raising the retirement age" is done with a "grace/ transition" period, therefor if you're lets say 62 by now, you don't have to work out of a sudden longer. It starts way before people reach that age and is done by the year of birth, therefor some time in the future.
Typo
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@NonFlyiingDutchman
That was about the eastern EUropean EU member states only, but didn't include the UK.
And Macron is the President of France, which is a EU member state, but he doesn't speak for the whole EU.
The EU would like to change the "one voice" voting system (which goes for some decisions made only) to a "majority voting system", because the EU doesn't want this "permanently blocking"... like Poland and Hungary are doing... anymore AND, as more New EU membership candidates are waiting to become EU members, would like to "sort" this issue upfront.
That's all... no more, no less...
As you're living in the EU, you should have known about it 😊
About this "multi-layered membership"... it was a subject in 2013 already ..... and disappeared again since...
Forgot to say, even in this video/Times Radio, the guy is stating, that all of this is NOT official, but some sort of "brainstorming" of 12 EUropean none official guys.
Look up at the Guardian, the article about the same subject says at about two thirds of the article, that all of this IS NOT official, but some brainstorming of the 12 ....
It's like, when Verhofstadt joined the "re-joining march" in London holding a speech, all Remainers thought, that he was talking as a official EUs spokesmen, but he spoke as a private person only.
Or when Barnier stated "that the UK is always welcome back in the EU", all Remainers were taking that as "we are invited", happily overlooking the other half of Barnier' s statement.... "under the known conditions"...
It's always this "exited reports about EU" now, probably out of desperation...but going back into the EU won't be a "quick one"...as we're talking here about a timespan of 15ish years minimum from application of a country until being a EU member state and you should know that as well... Criteria are all visible at the EUs Commission site...
Have a nice day 😊 🖐
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@frankhooper7871 Northern German here. But not in the Nedderdüütsch/Lower Saxon language, there you still see:
E water/LS water/G Wasser
E father/LS fadder/G Vater
E sister/LS soster/ G Schwester
E one, two, three/LS een, twee, dree/G eins, zwei, drei
E clock/LS klock/G Uhr
E school/ LS school/ G Schule
E he, she, me, you/ LS he, se, mie, yi/ G er, sie, mir/mich, du/Sie
E the/LS de/ G der, die, das
The English origins partly from the Lower Saxon and Frisian languages, and not from the high German language family.
Ten o'clock = klock tein = zehn Uhr
Groetens ut Bremen 😉
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Some time ago Richard Tice stated "Brexit was about stripping down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style ".
He was smiling when saying that.
The UK is loosing £100 billion per year since Brexit | Bloomberg
To join the EU again will go like that:
the UK/GB has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (if not done properly, joining process stops), which could take decades...
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
At the moment the UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria ...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU again, about 15ish years, as the EUs negotiators/spokesmen stated, they know due to experience of other countries joining process...
Notice: various countries with the status as a "candidate for EU membership" are stuck at exactly that, because they haven't implemented the 35 chapters... therefor are still no EU member states...
Just saying, because the UK still hasn't implemented properly neither the TCA nor the NIP/Windsor agreement it signed with the EU on free will.
Before the UK might join the EU again education is needed urgently about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs (with PR), working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0" again.
That the EU27 are mainly a peace project, using trade for the benefits of its citizens.
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe ", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
His book "for Europe " is available at the EUs Commission site book shop.
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU.
More info about the EU is available at the EUs Commission site...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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You mean, when 10 countries at once joined the EU (Poland, Bulgaria, Romania etc)?
Yes, "the EU" member states had agreed on a "transition period" of, I think, up to seven years, where every EU member state could hinder/deny access of the "new EU citizens" into each EU member states markets (labourship, social systems etc), to avoid an "overload".
ALL of the then (old) EU member states were using it, apart from: the UK/GB...
It got warned upfront, but again: no experts were needed 😎
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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NO.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Btw, ALL EUs member states were ready the day AFTER Brexit happened, and are doing the needed customs/border/vet check ups for UK imports !!
And it wasn't "UK suggesting, to fix NIP issues", but the EU27 "suggested" it, in order to protect the EUs SM/EEA/CU !!
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@Cider4144 Yes.
This is, what nobody over here at the Continent understands.. over here Brexit isn't even an issue anymore, only for those people, which have family and friends in the UK, like my London born spouse, who had to get dual citizenship because of Brexit, eventhough didn't have a say at the referendum/longer than 15 years abroad, but was trapped in this as well, like so many other...
So many of us over here are trying to inform as much as possible, did already the same BEFORE the referendum, EUs Commission installed a site extra for the Brits only BEFORE the referendum "all about EU - FAQs", one just had to type "EU" and it would have popped up, as it was set up on priority...
Unfortunately the Brits decided to look up about the EU AFTER the referendum, as stated by Google "the most asked question in the UK AFTER the referendum was = what is the EU?".
Since months the EUs Commission is stating clear messages towards the UK, and is doing so the whole time, but seems to never get heard once...
Like that there aren't "re-negotiations" on the table, but a REVIEW coming up to check the implementation of the TCA...
Phil, Max, etc, are still talking about "joining the EUs SM/EEA etc asap", telling them how it goes, that those "option" aren't available for 3rd countries, never get a response...
The UKs electorate have to sort their internal issues ASAP, media included, ..
And yes, I'm afraid, that neither you nor my London born spouse and I will see the UK be back in the EU27 in our life time...
I wish you all the best with greetings from Bremen 🍻 👋
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@mike The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have the project "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities. The EU/ Germany will replace all fossil fuels (coal, oil, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can replace nat gas as a raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc
Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks as well as the Faun Group.
Plenty of those trucks are already in service. Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany. The recently under construction being LNG terminals are convertable to hydrogen.
Namibia and Germany have this cooperation to build the worlds largest solar park including a production plant for green hydrogen and Ammoniac.
Btw, 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced with renewables (wind, solar, water). And I'm using wind power for my electricity since 15 years.
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@swiftflight7927 😉
Forgot to say: it's a usual thing in German speaking countries to put a "the" in front of a country...
"the Netherlands, the UK, the US, the Ukraine, the Lebanon, the Kongo, some are "female", some are "male", others don't have any at all, so no "disrespect", just "language issues" LOL
Btw, "the" Ukraine is "female" 😉
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@Huw Zebediah Thomas
....and as stated by Barnier "the EUs doors are always open for the UK....... UNDER THE KNOWN CONDITIONS", which is THAT part of the sentence, which seems to "get forgotten"....
To join the EU again will go like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission)have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
About the topic of this vlog: it's not even on the table over here in the EU, as a French-German think tank had a "brainstorming" about that subject only, but NOTHING official...
Btw, at the moment the UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria....
Estimated time for "joining the EU" about 15ish years, including the timespan needed for fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria BEFORE a country can apply for EU membership... stated by EUs spokesmen and negotiators.... known due to EUs experience from other EU membership applicants...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Right now the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Pretty clear statement that is 😂
About SM/EEA/CU membership = it's available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable!!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST...
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NO.
It doesn't go like that...since Brexit the UK has to check its EU imports at its border = as its the duty of each country/UK, to do the check ups, NOT THOUGH the exporting countries/EU27...
And of course exporters from EU27 member states know that and not every company might be honest, and could try to sell stuff into the UK, which by law should rather be destroyed at the costs of that company...
Even those containers, arriving at Continental EU ports, which get passed on to UK, don't get checked anymore = they just get "waved through" towards the UK = as the UK is a 3rd country now !!
That was different, when UK was EU member state = ALL containerships, which arrived at the Continental EU ports got checked, including those for the UK, as it was EU member state....
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@grizcuz 😉 Well, I hope, I'm not too average, I've got some insurances, but yes, it looks like, that us Germans like insurances LOL.
To be honest, it was one of my collegues who recommended to me to join the union, after I had a really bad experience with one of my employers (beforehand), who decided from one day to the next not to pay the waiges to any of us employees. Therefor I had to get a lawyer, went to court, won of course and: had to pay for my lawyer, as it's civil law/right, which, as I was young, didn't know.
I thought, I won, the one who lost has to pay. After I joined the union I had two more claims for my waiges (various years later) and I have to say, the lawyers the union has are brilliant, I can call up for anything, they do a fantastic job over here !!
Opposit to a "normal" insurance company the unions are acting on your behalf and are supporting you with all their knowledge and power.
Coming back to insurances "gg", as Germany has, as far as I know, the oldest existing welfare/social care system world wide, which got installed in 1887 (health-, social-, unemployment-, retirement- insurance), it might be, that that is part of our "DNA" somehow.
I wish you a happy new year with lots of health and all the best for 2023 😉
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@martinbennett2228 I'm sorry to say, that there is no option available to just "join the SM", it never was and never will be, as the SM is the "core/heart" of the EU and therefor highly protected.
The only two options available are EU full membership or EFTA.
The "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore, as stated by EU Commission, because of "too much hustle". And Norway (EFTA) is stating since 2016 until today, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA, as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The EU Commission stated recently, that a "fast track" joining the EU isn't available, for no country in the world, not even for Ukraine, being at war. No exceptions for any country in the world.
For joining the EU, the following procedures have to be done: asking for the application form coming with a very long list of issues which have to be fulfilled/Copenhagen Criteria, hopefully non of the EU27 member states veto the UK/GB joining the EU, then becoming the "status as a candidate" for joining the EU and only then the real negotiations with the EU would start, which could take decades.
The "version = just being in the SM" never existed, it was the "fairy tale/cherry picking" dream of the British Gvt, which they were demanding continiusly while the Brexit negotiations, not understanding, that access to the SM only and always comes with the duties of the four freedoms (free movement of goods, people, services, capital), the payment of the "member fee" and acceptance of the European High Court.
Greetings from the EU
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@prettsmedia Ok 😉
Germans are "not trying so hard", but it's our language. I wonder, how you would feel, when all of a sudden foreign people are demanding, to not speak Bulgarian in your own country anymore, that's all.
Btw, I'm speaking 3 languages, but lets say, foreign doctors/ nurses coming, not able to speak the national language (where ever it is), how would you feel as a patient, not able to tell the doctor/ nurse, what your health problems are (in your own country). That's actually what it's all about...
Greetings from Germany 😉
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Correct. But you were member in a union/EU, with 450 million citizens/potential customers...frictionless, tarrif free...
Btw, the EU27 were in negotiations with the USA for four years, in the end the EUs negotiators stopped all negotiations, because the USA were demanding issues like "chloride chicken, hormon boosted beef, gen manipulated food/unmarked = all not allowed/wanted in the EUs SM, and those private arbitration courts, where any US company could claim billions of € as "compensation" from any EU member state/the EUs Commission etc, because of "loss of profit", in case the EU27 might change laws/rules/standards in the future... even if the product of that US company didn't even exis at that time.....THAT would have opened US companies doors to endless claimings for billions of compensation......
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@simonnewman4240
Be happy with your crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of employee rights, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights etc, raising figures of Victorian deseases, like scurvy and rickets, heat or eat issues, sewage in all British waters, etc...
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Well, the UK was a EU member "a la carte", demanding opt outs all the time, never paid its full membership fee due to the "Brit bargain", was blocking EUs projects like the "EU army", the last ten years of its membership...even shortly before the referendum Cameron spoke with the EUs negotiators, to demand another opt out = to stop FOM for ALL EUropean citizens, NOT THOUGH the UK, while threatening the EUs negotiators with a Brexit referendum at the same time..
Since the UK left the EU27, the EUs member states are working together much smoother and faster as before, decisions get done faster as well ...
On top of that = before the UK could join the EU again (apart from the needed criteria for APPLYING/joining the EU) the UKs electorate needs to get educated about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0 " again.
Greetings 🖐
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Again = "the EU" is a ever evolving and developing peace project, based on the "Schuman plan", ALL what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU and the creator of the "Schuman plan".
Robert Schuman/French Minister, and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the1920, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925.
As written before = the SIX founder members are Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, wether you like it or not.
The UK tried three times to join, but was refused to join...
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So the UK only "joined the EU in 1992? Brilliant, all the other decades, it was a member of it, didn't happen 😂
Same goes for the UK, it exists since September 2021 only, as that was the date, when numberplates had to be renamed from GB to UK 😂
Neither the EU want the UK back, nor it's a founder member, you clever smart 😂
Right now the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership...and various EUs member states would veto the UK joining the EU again 😂
As it's the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when 😂
And again the = Treaty of Rome in 1957 = "sets up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 👋
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"...the EU27 were gutted when we left the block...."
Errr...NO.
Everything was sorted and got prepared for Brexit the day AFTER the referendum happened...the EU27 were ready the day Brexit happened !!
And those € 2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee is affordable...
As the UK never paid its full membership fee due to the "Brit bargain", infact it were about one third of it only, the permanent demands of opt outs etc, it's recognisable, that since the UK left the EU27, the EUs member states are working together much smoother and faster..
Apart from, that the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
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Leaving the EU27 AUTOMATICLY INCLUDES leaving the EUs SM/EEA and CU.... because =
EEA Agreement= SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126 !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
EVERY EU member state has the right to veto the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining the EU.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@EdJames-tb9oz 🙄
And you have a problem with reading AND understanding at the same time !!
Again = EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Sneaking in by the back door isn't possible, the UK is a 3rd country = 3rd country rules apply !!
FOM is part of the EUs SM/EEA , and can't be cherry picked nor separated, as it's always = FOM for people, goods, services and capital..
This exception of a visa IS NOT FOM, but just a visa for up to four years in ONE country of any of the EU27 member states to either study, work or take an apprenticeship for Brits aged 18-30 years IN THAT ONE country only !!
After that the Brit has to leave that country, or apply for permit residency, if fulfilling the needed criteria...
It's up to the EU27 only as well as to the EFTA member states ONLY, to decide, which country can join either of them and when, but NOT up to the UK to decide..
Norway and Iceland are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Joining the EU the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST, right now the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership...
EVERY EU member state has the right to veto the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining..
Joining the EUs SM needs permission of all 31 EU and EFTA member states..and again = ONE veto is enough..
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@philipcrossley1279 So, you wrote, that you don't have problems with that (that it could take decades until the UK/GB is back in the EU).
Now you're saying (to the other person), that most of the EU citizens are just "stating their oppinion, but not real facts".
Hmmm, all you have to do is to look up at the EUs Commission site, there you'll see, that what many of the EU citizens here are talking about ARE the facts and NOT just their oppinion.
Opposit to the UK/ GB over here in the EU most EU citizens are pretty well informed about the EU,
as the EU Commission regularly is shown on TV/ online, the EUs Parliament gets shown on TV/ Inet when important issues have to be sortet, and the EU Commission is regularly doing statements, like the one about the UK/ GB "re-joining" the EU, as I stated before: no fast track, no exceptions for any country in the world.
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@StillAliveAndKicking_
Well, as written before, this subject (two tiered EU) isn't even on the table... as there are two options available only:
full EU membership or EFTA membership.
Norway/EFTA has stated various times since years, that it'll veto the UK joining the EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The "Swiss modell/deal" isn't available anymore either as stated by the EU Commission, because of "too much hustle".
Therefor the only option available is full EU membership by applying for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated various times by the EUs Commission.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Estimated time (given by the EUs Commission due to experience), about 15 years time, which includes the time for fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria BEFORE a country can apply for EU membership.
The UK is recently moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@thanksmaybe4103 What, you mean where a Serbian shot an Austrian Crown Prince in Bosnia and therefor Austria declared war to Serbia and because Russia was an allie to Serbia they started attacking and then Germany got involved because of being allied to Austria?? And so on and so on....
The historians of today (from all countries) had researches about WWI, and they clearly found out, that Germany wasn't the only country being guilty. It was this terrible Nationalism of those days, and all of the countries were "hot" on going into war. Btw, the Kaiser, as useless as he was, wrote letters to his cousins (Tsar, the King) and the Austrian Kaiser, stating: as Serbia followed the demand/ ultimatum of Austria to hand over the assassinator to Austria, there is no need and reason for starting a war.
The rest is history ...
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@Nice0n3
Just some facts about the recent status quo =
The UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27 5 years ago.
This is why the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Some time ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The slogan "closer alignment" made by Starmer, made the EUs Commission to "test" the seriousness behind that, hence offered the youth mobility deal to the UK....which was partly refused, instead the UK wanted opt outs by excepting some of the 27 EUs member states to be part of the youth mobility deal...
That was proof enough for EUs Commission, how serious the UK is about "closer alignment"...
The EU27 are aware , that UK is trying to sneak into EUs SM/EEA/CU from the back door...as stated already by Barnier, who gave advice to the EU27 about that issue, considering his experience with the UK at the Brexit negotiations...
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@aliservan7188 😂
Oh dear...here some facts for you =
ALL EUs steel mills received €billions of subsidies, to build their own windmills/electrolyseurs and arc furnaces to produce green steel in the near future.
Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group space technologies Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035.
ALL newly build LNG terminals are convertable for hydrogen.
Daimler trucks and the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered trucks/vehicles, which are already in use since years.
2022 the worlds first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany.
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lits of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs are under construction everywhere as well.
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well.
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
It's on the way...
UKs railway network = 18.500 km
Germany's railway network = 39.200 km
Highspeed net = 6.600 km
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It never will happen, as it's not available for 3rd countries, but for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
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Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership...
January this year the "passporting" went back into the EU27, June 2025 the "Euroclearing" will be back in the EU27, then Brexit is complete, as the transition period of FOM for capital ends June 2025.
This is a huge loss for the City of London, as those financial services are making up about one third of worlds market for clearing services = a value of £ 260 trillion per year.
Starmer wanted to meet U v d Leyen beginning/middle of September, EUs Commission told him, that that would be possible earlist end of October or rather later...
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@Bjowolf2 You compare todays English language with todays high German, which doesn't work like that.
If you compare it with the Lower Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch and Frisian languages, you'll see, that there is much more in common.
Both languages are still spoken by about 4 million Germans all along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea).
Like:
E that/ LS dat/ G das
E water/ LS water/ G Wasser
E school/ LS school/ G Schule
E the/ LS de/ G der, die, das
E sister/ LS soster/ G Schwester
E he, she, me, you/ LS he, se, mie, yi/ G er, sie, mir/mich/ du/Sie
E clock / LS klock/ G Uhr
E ten/ LS tein/ G zehn
Ten o'clock = klock tein = zehn Uhr
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
Grüße aus Bremen
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@damianbutterworth243
The EU27 NEVER was a "common market" only, as agreed already in the treaty of Rome in 1957... =
"The treaty of Rome set up the EEC = bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade...it established a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
After 47 years of EU membership plus 4 years after Brexit you still don't seem to understand the EU, how it works and what it's for...oh dear...so sad...never mind 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Wird nicht passieren, genauso wenig, wie im letzten Winter "alles kalt und dunkel war" = laut Vorhersage der CDU/CSU...
Also wir hatten es warm/Gasheizung und Strom gab's auch reichlich 😊
Zur Ergänzung, bitte mal schauen unter:
Wolfspeed, US Firma, die eine gigafactory für Halbleiter im Saarland baut.
TSMC, Taiwanesischer Konzern, der in Silicon Saxony/ bei Dresden eine gigafactory für Mikro Chips baut.
Northvolt, ein Schwedischer Konzern, der in Heide bei Hamburg eine gigafactory für E-Auto Batterien baut
Bosch, Infenion, Intel, Ford, VW etc, alle bauen neue Werke zur Produktion von Halbleitern, Batterien, Mikro Chips etc...
Bitte auch schauen bei:
the "green hydrogen coast line", ein Projekt der Niederlande, Dänemark und Deutschland, Fraunhofer Institut Bremerhaven ist auch dabei...
Grüsse von der Waterkant 😊
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@smokeango Correct.
Therefor VW is/ has developed the " solid battery", which is without Lithium (please look up for the details). Those solid batteries will be build in the new VWs from 2024 on.
I don't see nuclear power as green energy, and the radioactive waste is acitive partly up to a hundredthousand years, I've looked up for that sort of time span, if we'd go "backwords", we would be at the Neanderthal's.
Those solid batteries have a much longer "life time", driving distance is about 40ish % more, and isn't as "sensible" about temperatures either.
The process of progressing engineering towards "going green" hasn't stopped yet.
In case you're interested, please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@vaibhavpal9873 The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels ( oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
All along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea) electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction.
The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have this project called
" green hydrogen coast line), all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks/ vehicles as well as the Faun Group, those trucks are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains
(Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
Btw, 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables ( wind, solar, water). 30.000 windmills including the offshore windmills are working in Germany, figures still raising.
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@johnrussell3961 I'm really sorry to say, but neither the Saxons nor the Anglo's came from Sibiria, believe me, as I also know a bit of our (Germanic) history. As said before, the Celts weren't one folk, but many different tribes in certain regions around todays Austria, Switzerland, North Italy, parts of todays France and the British Islands.
The word "Germanic" was made up by the Romans, as they declared all tribes living off the right side of the river Rhine as Germanic. The Germanics didn't call themselfs that, like the so called Celts neither. The, so called "Vikings"were by the view of the Romans also a Germanic tribe, coming from the regions of todays Sweden/Denmark, which were expanding towards Russia today (Rus). The Baltics are a side line of Indogermanic tribes, everything to the east of that are Slavic tribes, if you want to go back for 2000 years or more. Btw, partly some of North American tribes came over from Sibiria, but definetely not the Saxons and Anglo's, I've just done some research.
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@EllieD.Violet
Moin dear Ellie 😊
So I use that mailaddy, I'm using for yt anyway? Or do I need another one?
About M, infact that info is correct, it even was reported about in the Spiegel, T-online, Guardian, leMonde, etc and at the EUs Commission site....
April 18th 2024 = the EUs Commission offer was the "EUs youth mobility deal for youngsters at the age between 18-30 for max four years to study/Erasmus, work, etc"....
A few days later the UK rejected the EUs offer...
Looking at the EUs Commission site "Q&A Commission's proposal on EU-UK youth mobility"...
Let me know, please, when the discus is ready, looking forward to that 😊
Have a nice Sunday with greetings from oop north 🖐
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It's the importing country, which is doing the check ups...not though the exporting countries...the UK always used to be a bit ...about that, even when being in the EU...difference then : the EUs Continental ports were doing the checks, before the goods for the UK were past on towards the UK...
..this doesn't happen anymore now, goods for the UK just get "waved through" at EU ports...
Notice: the UK doesn't have ports, which can handle those huge container ships, therefor all those goods for the UK, always go via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, where goods for the UK get reloaded on smaller container ships...but still unchecked, as that is the duty of the importing country = the UK 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@X-boomer
Well, joining the EU would go like this:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Not available anymore is a "Swiss deal/modell" as stated various times by the EUs Commission, because of "too much hustle".
Norway/EFTA also has stated various times/since years, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only available option is "full EU membership", conditions/criteria are explained above...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Showing what one has depends very much on regional habits.
Like in the north of Germany/Bremen, Hamburg etc it's more like the "Hanseatic understatement", only when you look closer into it you might see the money 😊
Go to Rome or Milan, never ever you would see a Roman woman walk around with a fur coat, but going to the beach with full make up, hair styling and juwelry 😊
while in Milan, hot summer time, some woman still wear a mink coat (apart from wearing mink/fur coats is 🤨), it looks rediculess, but there you go 😊
Happy Easter to everybody here, we'll celebrate our big Easterfire with our neighbours tonight 😊
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Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Joining the EU goes like that ONLY =
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form..
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@CtrlOptDel No.
Neither was the UK "half in, half out, nor did it have to do permanent negotiatons or other whatever... " = instead it was a full member, which demanded opt outs, starting with Thatcher and the "Brit bargain" = hence UK paid about one third of its membership fee only (those £ 350 million never existed), one could say, that the UK had a EU membership "made to measure", up to the last minute, when Cameron was demanding another opt out for the UK = to stop FOM for all Continental EUropeans only, not though for the Brits...while telling the EUs negotiators, if they don't give him what's wanted, they'll start a Brexit referendum 🙄 😂
Even now, being a 3rd country, UK is misbehaving as usual by not implementing properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago.
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
Don't forget, Brexit did cost the EU27 member states € millions as well, getting prepared for Brexit without having a say in it (of course), supply chains and infrastructure had to be rerouted etc.. you really think, that any of the EU27 will change that quickly again, only because UKs electorate changed its mind again, and then at the next GE, Brexit 2.0 might happen again?
Not wanted, sorry..
Decisions made have consequences...
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@katywalker8322
Well, the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
EVERY EU member state has the right to veto the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining.
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), which could take decades..
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
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@missrayelyn3045 Uhh, why are you attacking me? I never said anything against the USA, was just admitting (and its NOT MY oppinion, but the US forces see it like that) about the bases spread over Europe (and others).
Btw, where are the Abrams? Gepard tanks and PZH2000s, MARS II, IRIS-T have been send, those "things" are also tanks, just not the so called "battle tanks", like Abrams, LeClerc, Leopard and others. None of the NATO members have sent any to Ulraine yet, might come, who knows? But still no reason to be so aggressive.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 Germany stripped down it's monarchy in 1918, but the aristocrats are still there, BUT their titles are PART OF THEIR NAMES, without any function.
And of course (not like the Russian descendants), the descendants of the German/Prussian Kaiser are alive, like all the other major aristocrats, princes, dukes etc.
They go to work like others, I used to have a collegues, which was/is a duchess, she was the secretary in that office, so what 😉
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Being in the SM is available only for EU members and EFTA members, not though for 3rd countries. Same goes for FOM.
Norway/EFTA stated various times since years, that it'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available is full EU membership.... estimated time needed for joining the EU are 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria at the moment.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No opt outs, no exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times...
The "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore either as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, because they don't want that "hassle" anymore...
ALL EU member states have the right to veto the UK joining the EU, ONE veto would be enough to stop the whole process of joining...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@davetekannon
Well, as stated in my other response to you = UKs electorate can hold as many referenda as wanted, still doesn't change anything, hence it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
Apart from, that the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment..
To solve that issue = fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria = will take ages, as one of the needed criteria is a national debt of max 55-60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...we're talking debts of about £ 1 trillion at the moment, the UK has to get rid of...
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@johncooper5293
Ukraine is not "fast tracked" but received the status as a "candidate for EU membership" only, because the EU can use different pots of money to support Ukraine better....
Ukraine still has to fulfill the Copenhagen Criteria first (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), and as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen recently, it will take about another 15+ years AFTER war for Ukraine, until Ukraine will join the EU27.
For the UK to join the EU it would go like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
Joining Criteria according to article 49 TEU...All available at the EUs Commission site...
Btw, the EU27 aren't responsable to sort the self inflicted mess the UK is in, a change of mindset has to come from within the UK and its citizens first, before applying for EU membership again, as the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0" again at the next GE...
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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Countries, which are applying for EU membership don't "negotiate" anything, as it goes like that =
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years...
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy...
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@Kian2002 Correct.
If you had made the effort to read about "article 49 TEU", you might have realised, that the UK is EQUAL to ALL other for EU membership applying countries = ALL have to start from the scratch by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST...
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs for any country in the world...not even for Ukraine being at war...as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years !!
Why should 27 independent and souvereign countries/the EU27, with their 450ish million citizens change their rules, because the UK/ex EU member state on its own free will, demands it for its own benefit, just because of the self inflicted economical desperation?!!
First of all it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals/treaties, it signed with the EU,...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Tiny correction please =
"How long it'll TAKE THE UK, to join the EU27 again...
Well, every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
There is a national debt of max 55-60 % needed, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently, that's about £ 1 trillion of debts, the UK has to get rid off...which will take quite a while..
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
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Problem about that is, as soon you're using broadband even if you have a landline, it's all VoIP, therefor electricity is needed, otherwise no Inet.
It's recommended, to have the "good old transistor radio, running on batteries", available, so you can at least receive important Infos from the Gvt.
Btw, no electricity, no telephone net, no water supply (because the modern pumps are running with electricity, no central heatings, no fuel (pumps are running on electricity), etc.
Cavemen is calling up 😉
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@eternal_ecstasy_77 WHAT??
I neither believe in "wonder nations", whatever that might be, but I know the history.
At that time Germany was neither ONE NATION, but a PATCHWORK OF MANY NATIONS, all with their own money, taxes, laws, partly even languages (NOT dialects), etc.
I didn't make it up !!
Btw, sort of half of those kingdoms/ princedoms are the todays Federal States.
Add on: in case of you talking about "nation" as some sort of "tribes", the territories of the ancient tribes are virtually simular to the todays Federal States again "gg".
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The Treaty of Rome set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH TRADE, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services, capital".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
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@peterrat100
You are aware, that EUropean schools not only teach English, but French, Spanish, German, Italian and Latin as well?
Lots of EUropeans speak three different languages, sometimes even more, my Belgian aunt speaks five different languages 😊
Oh, and when you're "claiming", that American English (which I don't like too much, btw) is no English, because of different pronounciation and various different words, how is it going for Canadian, Australian and NZ citizens, are those people also not speaking English?
Languages are "living" due being spoken, words might change their origin meanings or are "phading out" because of not being used anymore, others get "adopted" from other languages.
You only realise that, when speaking a second or more languages, how "interconnected" our European languages are.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@geoffbucks5803
Well, this is not, how the EU27 are working...
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries...
The UK has the TCA, as stated by the EU = "it's happy with it" = and it's ment serious !!
Referring to Barnier, when doing the Brexit negotiations "I'm fed up about the Brits, explaining them, how the EU works"...
Right now the UK has ignored all if the treaties/deals, it signed with the EU27, there is no big appetite for the EU27, to go agead with any "negotiations", the UK is demanding...UK has to sort its internal issues and implement those deals properly, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago...
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Joining the EU goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST..
It's not "negotiations", but rather = working off a bucket list, when joining the EU..
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@davidwebb4451
NO. It doesn't go like that, as it goes like this ONLY =
EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
The EUs Commission also stated since years, that "there won't be any bespoke deals, only option available = full EU membership or EFTA membership"
Norway and Iceland/both EFTA member states, are stating since years, that "they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a trouble maker in their club".
Therefor only option available = full EU membership...
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently..
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@james3547 Hi James 😉
Ze German's have a problem with the "th", I still remember learning it at school, we had "pronounciation training" saying "th" without the tongue "hanging out or spitting" at the person you were talking at LOL. Therefor "ze" is the "accident free" version...
We have the so called "community colleges/Volkshochschule", subsidiesed by Gvt, where one can do courses from painting to languages, all sorts of sports or whatever, cheap money, good quality, available up to the "smallest villages".
If moving to Germany living in the North, the German language is pretty "clean/Hochdeutsch", therefor good to learn.
Good luck and all the best with greetings to London from Bremen 😉
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@Rasarel
I am a descendant of the ancient Saxons...no mountains here, just the north sea coast line 😁
Oh, btw, English language is the fifth language, I'm speaking fluently..
Please look up about the "Heuneburg" = a celtic "castle"...
The descendants of the Germanic tribes are the todays Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Dutch, Belgians, English, Deutsche, Austrians, Luxembourgers, etc 😎
Hol di fuchtig met groetens ut Bremen 👋 dat woer Nedderdüütsch...😂
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@deehaytch8442 🙄
Man, what a quibble here..
what's your problem...still blaming the EU27..aren't you happy about your Brexit?!!
Don't worry, the EU27 will sort that issue...In case, you haven't realised = most British fishermen need staff from the EU27, otherwise they can't run their boats...most fish, which gets caught in British waters, either is poluted with Brexitters poo, therefor contaminated, or is fish, you Brits don't like...
Fish you Brits like, gets imported from Norway now, and the Norwegians don't let you Brits fish in their waters...and they are EFTA members...
Oh, and since the sea gets warmer due to the climate change, those fish, which used to be in British waters, have moved on further north towards Iceland, EFTA member...
Holy cod 😂
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Hydrogen is needed as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, cement, plastic, tyres, cosmetics, medication and lots of other things all of us are using daily .
Just saying...
Add on: remember, while the lock downs a couple of years ago (traveling by plane was down to the level of 1951 etc) so many experts/people were saying: ah, this might change the world for good, reducing our consumption of energy etc, lock downs were gone and the people went crazy "doing even more things/journeys etc" then before the lock downs.
What I mean is: do you really believe, that people are willing! to reduce their energy consumption by changing massivly their life style, youngsters included?!
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@Bjowolf2
Well, German language has "der, die, das", while Lower-Saxon and English just have "de/the" and so on.
Btw, by language scientists there are the West- Germanic languages: English, Dutch, Flamic, German.
And the East Germanic languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Just saying
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@Bjowolf2 All correct, but I was talking about the (still) visible simmularities between Lower Saxon language and English, as most people tend to compare "Hochdeutsch/High German" with English, and of course there the "roots" of both languages are not as visible.
Btw, I do speak the Lower Saxon language and (fun fact 😊) could have a nice chat with my Dutch collegue from Groningen, where they speak the "Groningen dialekt" (language!).
You shouldn't forget that languages don't stop at a "border", but "softly" mix, therefor at some parts there even exists a
"mix" of Frisian/Lower Saxon language and of course, like all languages they have their regional dialects on top of that, sometimes even from village to village (as in the old days without the todays infrastructure 20 km was a huge distance).
Btw, my London born spouse doesn't understand the Lower Saxon language 😄
Groetens ut Bremen to Danmark
Greetings to Denmark from Bremen 😉
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It's about €2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable and appreciated 😊
Btw, the UK never paid its full membership fee due to the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher....therefor it were €120 million per week only, which included the EUs services for = infrastructure, like border controls/customs controls/vet check ups/infrastructure for those controls/civil servants for all of that etc, as that is part of the EUs membership services, professionell negotiators/lawyers for all of those EUs trade deals, etc, etc... = ALL of that the UK has to pay and take care of on its own...which costs much more than being shared with 27 other EU member states 😂
Btw, NO money of those €millions are left, instead the UK =
lost £ 100 billion in 2022 due to Brexit
the UK lost £ 140 billion in 2023 due to Brexit
And it will get more, due to the Brexit related loss of = passporting, which is back in the EU27 since January this year...June 2025 Euroclearing ends and will be back in the EU27...
Those two, for the City of London big businesses are covering about ONE THIRD of the worlds business of clearing and passporting 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Yes.
Unfortunately the EUs Commission stated some weeks ago/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
If there is any chance for you, to move back into the EU27 (I know, you used to live over here, but had to move back to the UK, so you could take care of your parents)...then do it, as it'll take decades, before UK might be back in the EU27...
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27 👋
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@StoutProper Well, that was probably a bad joke LOL. The British press doesn't even talk about Brexit and its devastating consequences, or about all the legal changes that violate human rights, only about the "party gate", which is really shameful. With an English (London) family who are almost entirely Brexiteers, I can only say that they are still "floating" in the "sunny uplands" and think that Brexit was and is a great idea.
To come back to the Germans: small example: when I was about 10 years old, we visited the NL, then the arms automatically went up, accompanied by the --- shout, 🤮 That's pretty much how it went my whole life.
It was even worse when I was visiting friends in Rome and the great-grandfather received me enthusiastically because of the "friendship" between the Duce and his "best buddy". As a result, when I traveled through Europe, I always pretended to be some "Northern European", i.e. only spoke English.
That has since subsided, but things are still the same on the Internet as on the analogue live decades ago.
In addition, our past is talked about at length in all German schools, and I don't think Germans have a problem naming their governments' mistakes.
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@75VNK0 Just be happy over there in Bulgaria and enjoy the EU membership, where Germany is the largest funder 😉
Btw, do you know, what :barbar" means? No? The ancient Greek called everybody, who wasn't able to speak ancient Greek a "Barbar". As the Greeks didn't understand the other language, all they would understand was "bar bar bar". Therefor ..... yes, you too "gg" ....
Add on: forgot to say, the language, we're using here (English), is a so called "West Germanic language", like Dutch, German, Flamic. The "Eastern Germanic languages" are Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, all based on "Germanic language roots".
Oops ....
Did you really bother to ask all those people from the nine direct border countries of Germany? Wow, I'm very impressed with so much effort "gg".
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@75VNK0 We don't come to agree on this subject. And again, may be in certain professions it might be ok to do so, but the majority of Jobs need the official language of a country. On top of that, there also exists a private life. By refusing to learn the language of the country you're living in, cuts you off. I doubt, you wouldn't talk like that, if we wouldn't talk about German here .... I also used to live abroad, and for me it was a pleasure and a must, to learn the language of the country, I was living in, due to respect.
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.worlds 6th largest economy...
The UK "created" countries?
Are you talking about the "British Empire" = invading, occupation, so called "colonialism"?
Or are you talking about all those countries, where the UK installed all these artificial borders, when the Osman Empire dissolved, like = Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq...without taking care of the already existing tribal/territorial borders...which is causing problems in those regions until these days?
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@youfoundme2022
Well, yes, but it always needs two to tango, hence the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Instead the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
The EU27 are stating "messages" towards the UK all the time since the referendum happened, until these days, but it seems, that those official messages don't "arrive" at UKs gvt(s) unfortunately..
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@lellyparker
What most Brits don't seem to understand (even now after 6ish years of Brexsh£t):
the SM is the "core/ heart" of the EU, therefor it's highly protected.
If the EU27 would "open it just like that = UK/ GB gets full access", that would be a "sell out" of EUs regulations and the EU as a organisation itself, after that lots of countries (EU members included partly) might/would like to do the same.
Btw, the "access to the SM" you're having already now, just with the "frictions" Brexit caused.
The NIP/ Windsor agreement is only there to protect the GFA, and wouldn't even be needed without Brexit, therefor an exception only for NI/RoI, not comparable with the situation of the UK at all.
Why is the EU doing this?
Because it protects one of its member states: the RoI, to keep peace on the Island of Ireland, simple as that.
Apart from that: the EU27 plus the 4 EFTA members is a pragmatic, rule based organisation, acting on behalf of its members (within and abroad), not though for non members (even when they've BEEN a EU member state.
Greetings from the EU27
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@AnneHeyns
Every person which isn't his oppinion ends up in prison, hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned for political reason.
Lots of Turks have/ are applying for political asylum in Germany:
journalists, teachers, lawyers, doctors of medicine, politicians from the hardly existing (anymore) oppositions parties, etc, the list is endless and still ongoing, sadly ....
Just saying.
He is in power for 20 years now, I would call him an autocrat, which doesn't make it any better.
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@swanpride So far so good. Not meant as a cheap excuse, but WWII resulted of the Versailler treaty with maximum punishment. The Weimar Republic was on a good way, but got "kicked in the knees" from all directions, various coups happened, done by either royalists, trying to get the monarchy back, or the right wing (later on the Nazis). Twice there were starving periods happening because of the sea blockade from the Brits, and the French, still p.off because they lost the "French/ German war" in 1870/1871, which they started), therefor occupied the west of Weimar Republic (Ruhrgebiet/ steel and coal region, the "powerhouse" of Weimar Republic), to force the Germans to pay more and more reparations. Inflation came up. Some politicians got shot/ assassinated.
Went on like that until the "Black Friday" came up. The USA had given credits to the Weimar Republic and pulled them completely out straight away, hyper Inflation started. In the end a bread did cost one trillion (no joke) Marks.
Hitler and his people popped up again (with "simple" solutions), nobody took them serious,
the royalists thought, they could use Hitler and his party as a "step towards re-installing the monarchy" again. The thought behind that was, once he's in, get "rid of him" after some months and then the Kaiser comes back.
History showed different and 65 million people lost their lives.
Greetings from Germany
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@nightwish1000
To use Sir Christopher Clark in this context/WWI-the sleepwalkers-how Europe went into WWI" is ....errr... bs, as he wrote about WWI AND NOT about "German identy" since 900 AD...
"Protestant" church songs were in use first in 1524/Torgau...In the Protestant regions only...
Prussia existed for about 300ish years only, and the people living in the other kingdoms/Bavaria/Hesse/Oldenburg-Lueneburg-Hannover garanteed didn't feel "Prussian" or other... you're mixing lots of "things" together... sounds...errr... crap...
Misunderstood "patriotism/nationalism" has been the roots of wars all the times and is a real pest... until these days...like Putler and his "imperial hunger "...
"Farmers" were more likely peasants, as they even didn't have their own farms, but HAD TO BE in feudal service to their masters...
This is why there exists the saying "city air makes you free" = those peasants had to escape from their feudal masters, but had to be "within a city" for minimum one year and one day, if their master didn't come up with seven whitnesses confirming, that those escaped peasants were his, then they had to go back to their feudal masters...
And again, in all those times the majority of the people were peasants with NO RIGHTS, and had a "radius" of may be max 20/30ish km in their whole lifetime, doubtfull, that they identified themselfs as "Germans/Germany", but rather as, whatever the local/regional feudal master/count/prince/King was...
Your post sounds a bit like a "conspiracy theory", I'm sorry to say....
Nobody is "talking away" German history/like about the HRI of German Nations.... only since WWI ....this is why Sir Christopher Clark had done research to "sort history" about that context...
What is rather more concerning is, that the right wing parties are growing again, doing their usual unhealthy "nationalism/patriotism" crap, which had cost 17 million peoples lifes in WWI and 65 million peoples lifes in WWII...
Vive l'Union Europeenne 🇪🇺
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Hydrogen goes perfect for "heavy vehicles, planes, trains, trucks, ships", not though for cars, there the e-cars are better.
Please look up for those "projects (not new):
the "green hydrogen coast line", which is a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Electrolyseurs are under construction everywhere.
Some months ago the world wide first hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany, Daimler trucks has developed trucks running on hydrogen, the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered trucks as well, those trucks are already in use.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
It's on the way ...
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045, this project had started long before the war in Ukraine started.
This terrible war has actually "boost" the progress towards going green....
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@markaxworthy2508
As I wrote about Nato: you were mentioning, that the EU "armed" the RoI, my answer to that was, that the EU27 has the same "military agreement" within EU member states then Nato (duty to support each other in case of ..).
Again, as written before: in some ways you are blaming the EU by not giving Cameron enough of "exceptions" for the UK/ GB as wanted. As I wrote before, the UK/GB was actually from beginning of its EU membership more or less demanding exceptions, it had reached the limits. Nobody is/was forced to join the EU, and the coming rules with it are made by the EU member states, including the UK/GB ...
Btw, it was always clear, that the EU is permanently advancing, well known by the Continental EU citizens/ member states, just not by the UK/GB.
If you're interested, please read up about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (then German, later French), who's idea of an European Union started in the 1920s.
Greetings from the EU27 😉
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@EdJames-tb9oz
Those mentioned countries (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, etc) are EFTA members..
Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA and CU, because it goes like that ONLY =
EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
The recent subject spoken about is NOT FOM, but a visa for up to 4 years within ONE of the 27 EUs member states, for people aged 18-30, to either study, work or having an apprenticeship, that's it.
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@Alien-mu7ex
Nee, das eigentliche Problem ist "Merrit order" = zZt sind die Strompreise an die teuersten Energien gekoppelt = Gas ...wenn das entkoppelt werden würde, würden wir den echten Strompreis für erneuerbare zahlen...
Leider hängen da wohl noch zu viele Großversorger mit drin, und die wollen ihren Strom natürlich zu einem "guten" Preis verkaufen = die Aktionäre wollen ja schließlich ihre Rendite haben...
Na ja, die Windräder werden abgeschaltet, weil der Südlink nach Bayern fehlt...und da wir hier oben im Norden bereits einen guten Netzausbau haben, die in Bayern aber eben nicht, kostet unser Strom, obwohl "grün", mehr als in Bayern...
Die nördlichen Bundesländer würden das gerne ändern, aber Bayern hält dagegen 😒
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@paulmackilligin1754
Well, that sounds quite different to your first comment about "joining the SM".
The "Norwegian modell/EFTA membership " isn't available, because Norway stated various times that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore either as stated by the EU Commission because of "too much hustle".
Therefor only full EU membership is available by applying for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU, only then the UK/GB will get the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the real negotiations with the EU would start, which could take decades.
Btw, this time as a "new" member the Uk/GB has to accept the Schengen and has to implement the Euro.
No exceptions, no "fast track " for any country in the world as stated by the EU Commission.
The "four freedoms (of goods, people, services, capital)," are part of EU membership as well as the payment of the membership fee, and following the rules of the European High Court.
It won't be a "quick one", and "bespoke deals" aren't available either as stated by the EU Commission.
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@Andrew-rc3vh
Ahh, yes, didn't know about that issue.
The EU27 have taken consequences since the pandemic and the "supply chain problems" coming with it, therefor the EU27 decided, to bring back parts of the needed "critical infrastructure" into the EU, not all of it, but to make sure, that it doesn't go as bad as when the lockdowns were ongoing.
The EUs industry/manufacturers are much to vulnerable, when various/of course not all, parts of the needed stuff, like semi conductors or batteries etc, gets produced in Asia/China mostly... same goes for medication etc.
TSMC has decided, to "spread" its production plants in the EU/Germany and another one in the USA, since China is threatening Taiwan... TSMC is producing about 80ish % of ALL worlds needed micro chips...until now in Taiwan only... therefor...
Weird times, everything on the edge and under tensions...
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27 😊 🖐
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@chrissymoss514 Thank you 😉
To get a small impression of an surveillant/ dictatorship ruled country, I can recommend the film "the lifes of others", playing at the mid eighties in the GDR, showing how nasty it is, when you can't trust anybody anymore (your own children, husband/ wife, neighbours, friends, collegues etc). That is very pregnant and not everybody is an hero. Shouldn't be an excuse, as I myself don't know, how "brave" I would be in that situation or if I would go straight away into prison because of my oppinion.
Greetings from Bremen 😉
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@moonhunter9993 Bitte schön, gern geschehen 😉
Kleiner Hinweis: Friesisch und Nedderdüütsch sind anerkannte Sprachen, und als "Minderheiten Sprachen geschützt und eingetragen als UNESCO Weltkulturerbe", und haben natürlich, wie alle Sprachen, auch ihre eigenen Dialekte.
Falls Interesse bestehen sollte: die Uni Göttingen bietet das Studienfach "Nedderdüütsche Spraak" an, und es gibt das "Institut für Niederdeutsche Sprache Bremen", dort kann man ebenfalls Infomaterial etc bekommen.
The funny thing is, that I thought, that "my" London born spouse would "sort of" easily understand the Lower Saxon/Nedderdüütsch language, when I'm talking with our neighbours, but it doesn't work like that, as the pronounciation is too different.
Forgot to say, there are "West Frisia/Holland/NL, East Frisia/Lower Saxony/Germany, Frisia/LS/Ger, and North Frisia/Schleswig-Holstein, Ger. They can talk to each other easily, but of course with their regional dialects.
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
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Have a nice day 😉
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@markwelch3564
The EUs "rapid responce force" had its first maneuver ever in Rota/Spain with 2.800 troops from 19 different EU member states...the goal is focused on minimum 5.000 troops in 2025, rather more...
Since 1952 the EU had the "EUs forces" written in its treaties... since the war in Ukraine the organisation of this recent maneuver had been planned/organised....
The main task for the "EUs rapid responce force" is, to take care of EUs citizens in none EU countries, to evacuate them, do humanitarian aid and protect them at the same time with military support etc, like now in Gaza or other...
Rota is a naval base of the Spanish army...
The EUs rapid responce force will start its official "work" in 2025 under rotating troops and rotating leadership, starting with German leadership....
About Nato "eastern flank"...recently about 40.000 Nato troops are "taking care" of that part of Nato territory...
Since January 2023 the NRFNATO VJTF responce force with about 11.500 troops (from which 8.000 are German troops in rotation) incl full equipment, are recently at the Baltics..... they are the ones going in first, if Russia/Belarus troops would attack the Baltics...to give the "other" Nato troops time to get there as well...
The NRFNATO VJTF very high readiness joint task force/ responce force is in permanent "stand by", ready to go "in" inner 48-72 hours
In Lithuania the Nato EFP enhanced forward battle group Lithuania is there since 2017 with 1.200 troops from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway in rotation...
UK is doing so/leadership in Estonia, Canada in Letvia, USA in Poland etc...
Lithuania actually asked Nato partner Germany to have a permanent battalion of the German army stationed at Lithuania/ in agreement with Nato partners...
Don't worry...everything is fine over here... Nato is just showing "its presence" 😊😎
Have a nice Sunday with greetings from the EU27/Germany 😊🍻🖐
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I'm sorry to say, that the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
Joining the EU will go like this =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), which could take decades.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria at the moment.
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@MichaelSmith-ns8ow
In case you're talking about the "two, three, four tiered EU " here, then I have to disappoint you, as the "two, three, four tiered EU " was a "brainstorming of a think tank of 12 French-German guys" only, but NOT official at all.
It wasn't even in the media over here in the EU27...
What the EUs member states want to change is the "one voice veto system" for certain EU decisions being made, the EUs member states would rather change it to a "absolute majority system", that's it...
Btw, the SM is the core/heart of the EU and therefor highly protected, no chance of "cherry picking" here...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@paulbrady4579
Yeah, right, errr .... and EU citizens are eating hamsters and burning their furniture to heat their homes LOL
Meanwhile in the EU: hamsters are sitting in deck chairs drinking cocktails "gg",
10°C at night thanks to climate change, nat gas buffers are full, price cap for nat gas and electricity until April 2024, oh, and the supermarket shelfs are bursting full with fresh food from all over the EU27 😉
How is it going on your Brexit island, fish are swimming in sewage, exploding energy prices, food banks in hospitals for the staff, lack of medication, NHS is doing .... not so well, errr,
Yeah, but Brexit means Brexit 😉
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@simonnewman4240
Some facts again =
Fitch affirms UK rating AA-
outlook negative
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms the EU rating AAA
outlook stable
UKs national debt is at 101,2 %
Germany's national debt 66,3 %
Despite the technical recession in 2023 Germany is the worlds third largest economy since 2023 😊
While the UK, also being in recession, dropped from worlds fifth largest economy to sixth rank in 2023..
The EU27/Germany are in transition going green, the EUs "green deal" has a value of € ONE TRILLION for going green, to support the EUs member states and their economies/industries by going green...
Please look up for =
Wolfspeed, Infenion, TSMC, Intel, Bosch, Northvolt, Microsoft, Ford, VW, etc, etc = all these international companies are building gigafactories in Germany..
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received € 1,3 billion EU subsidies each to build their own electrolyseurs/windmills and arc furnaces to produce green steel in the near future...no job losses either...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@Purple_flower09
Well, the EU27 dropped their Russian nat gas imports by more than 80ish %, not too bad for 27 countries with their 450ish million citizens...
Opposit to the UK, where the City of London still is the largest laundromat for laundering dirty Russian money, more than ever since the war...
It's quite amusing, that the UK/ and its people, is looking towards the EU/Germany/France more than ever, since it left the EU27 😂
It's distracting from the recent status quo of the UK....infact it should be rather the opposit = showing all the other nations/EU27 included = how brilliant and successfull Brexit was/is, instead of showing = look, EU is "much worse than us and collapsing again since decades at any minute" 😎
Oh dear, so sad...never mind 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@maggieliz1059
I neither have to "calm down", nor am I "closed minded", Japan "can't agree to it either, as Japan isn't even Nato member", before writing more about "who can easily join either Nato or EU", I strongly recommend you to look up for the needed criteria to join any of those two organisations.
Nato AND EU ARE already supporting Ukraine as much as possible, with money, aid, military equipment, advice, etc.
The "only" support Nato and EU aren't doing, is support with Nato troops....
Why did Ukraine received the status as a "candidate for EU membership" already, eventhough it wouldn't even fulfill the Copenhagen Criteria yet (neither before the war nor right now)?
Because "the EU27" can use "different pots of money", when a country has the status as a candidate for EU membership, therefor the EU27 can support Ukraine even better...
As U v d Leyen and some EU spokesmen stated recently, that it will take minimum 10ish years AFTER WAR, until Ukraine will join the EU27...
Add on - the procedure needed for joining the EU27:
a country (in this case Ukraine) has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first (Ukraine received that, as explained before, without fulfilling it), Copenhagen Criteria including: a stabile democracy/economy, NO CORRUPTION, independent justice, free speech/press, human rights/womens rights etc...
Without war, it goes like that -
fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos that applying country, only then the implementation of the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) would start, which could take decades...
Btw, the EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working/acting on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
Greetings from the EU27
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@GammonBrexitNews
Hello back 😊
The EU27 didn't close anything, but as the UK was using the transition period, to get as much vaccine from EU towards the UK, the UK bought virtually the EUs vaccine market "empty", while promising, to partly distribute it to other countries in need, but instead kept it all on its own.
And yes, the EU27 are still passing on security related Infos towards the UK (smugglers, terrorists, criminals), but UK doesn't do its job properly...again, and doesn't pass on those infos towards the EU, same as it receives from the EU27 ...
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@Anonymous Illuminatus
Thanks for your compliment Sir, my pleasure 😉
Yes, of course it's difficult to keep 27 independent and souvereign nations going along with each other, but you shouldn't forget, those EU rules are made and agreed by exactly those 27 member states and have to be confirmed with one voice!
The EU isn't perfect, but it's been worked on permanently to get more advanced by doing progress, which isn't going easy, but mostly solutions get found and implemented.
Lots of compromises and patience is needed for those procedures .
The EU27 works like that:
it's based on a "framework" working like an "huge umbrella", the EU27 have imposed minimum standards (the umbrella) to protect its people/citizens in every possible way like
"human rights, labourship, environment, free speech/press, independent justice etc".
But also protecting its citizens to not get sh** quality of goods/food, or when technical progress is available getting the best/most energy saving goods, etc.
Like this huge "upset issue" in the UK/GB (only) before the referendum: lots of Brits were getting upset, that they have to get rid of their old, energy eating vacuum cleaner, which wasn't correct.
The EU27 (UK included) had decided, that from year x on technical equipment with low energy consumption should be available on the market only, but of course every EU citizen could use the existing equipment up to its gone/used.
And of course, because of technical progress the modern electrical equipment is much more efficient with using less energy.
But that info came mostly never across the channel and was used for anti EU oppinion 🤔.
About the EU27s "framework/umbrella": of course EVERY EU member state could act as wanted within or above that "framework standards", but never "below" those EU27 standards.
When those ten new EU member states joined (Poland, Slowenia, etc), the EU27 had implemented a law, which allowed all "old" EU member states to "open it's social systems/working market etc with delay" up to 7/10 (not sure about 7 or 10 years) years later so their markets (work, health-, social system etc) don't get "flooded".
All EU member states used that law, apart from : Britain, and of course they all came.
Afterwords big complains were done, including the British politicians.
So much misinformation about the EU was done by politicians as well as the British media, always and only as a "benefit" of British politicians.
You were asking about the EU becoming a "super state".
No, but there were thoghts about a "fiscal union", but that would mean, that all 27 member states have the same tax system, and national households have to be interconnected etc, I don't see that coming because of national issues from each EUs member states.
The idea of a European army is a different issue, that would be "sortet" like Nato works: each member state has its own army, but also provides military equipment/troops to "the club".
Lots of text that was, I'm sorry for that 🤔 😉.
I hope, I could answer your questions ?!
Have a nice day !
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@dirkdupont5004 Unfortunately I would think, it'll rather happen in the EU (to be sortet at court), not though in the UK.
As written before, there is already a anti corruption task force existing, this is how it came up, but the EU will enlarge this anti corruption system also for countries.
But as usual, some people think, they are smarter then others, when doing stuff like that, until they get caught 😉
I trust the EU system, she's lost already all titles/Jobs she had, her "immunity" has taken away from her, the independant EU judge system is working, the investigations have just started.
I cross the fingers, that one day the UK will be back on that system some time again. But at the moment I don't see it.
All the best to you with greetings to the UK from the EU 😉
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@britingermany
About 2.2 million Germans are speaking fluently/very good the Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language, another 5 million are speaking Lower Saxon fluently/ good.
This language has, as every other languages, its regional dialects, and is registered as a "Unesco world heritage protected minority language", the same as the Frisian language, the Sater Frisian language and the Sorbic language
or the Welsh and Scottish languages.
Around the Sorbic areas in Germany (Kamenz is the "capital" of the Sorbic people), all signs etc are written in Sorbic and German languages (like in Wales Welsh/ English).
In Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, people which are able to speak both languages (Lower Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch and High German) get employed with priority when working at a bank, certain public gvt offices/ Behörden with public contacts, care homes and others.
At the Göttingen University you can study Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language.
There are talk shows, news, radio programms etc, all in Nedderdüütsch/LowerSaxon/German available.
Lower Saxon = English
he/se/mie/yi = he/she/me/you
wat/dat = what/ that
de = the (dd =th) = no "der, die, das"
us = us
modder/vadder = mother/father
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
soster = sister
melk = milk
klock tein = ten o'clock
de Welschen = the Welsh
"De Welschen/ the Welsh " means
"the other ones/ the ones from abroad/ the strangers".
The ancient Saxons were calling all those tribes which were living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh".
You're still "de Welschen" when moving into another town/village in Lower Saxony 😉
And of course the pronounciation is different to the English language, therefor English speaking people don't understand Lower Saxon language but the Dutch from the area around Groningen (Holland/West Frisia) do "gg".
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
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There are no "unofficial" EU member states available , there are either full EU member states or 3rd countries, like the UK is since Brexit !!
A country is either "in" or "out", UK is "out" !!
The UK has the TCA with the EU27, which it signed on its own free will 4,5 years ago, and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals properly, it signed with the EU27 !!
The UK is NATO member state, like most EU27 and EFTA member states as well !!
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
UK is NATO member state, like most EU27 and EFTA member states as well !!
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@Tetiana Nemchenko
Add on: Cosco has percentages at these EUropean ports terminals:
Rotterdam, Antwerp, Zeebrugge, LeHavre, Bilbao, Marseille, Pyreaus etc, etc, just Google about that or look up at statista, it's all there ...
And of course Cosco has that done all around the world, as it is a usual thing to do for all huge shipping companies like MSC, Maersk, DFDS, Hapag Lloyd etc.
Difference here is, that Cosco is a Company owed by China 🤔
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@scotsam7590
Well, unfortunately it looks like, that many Brits don't seem to understand the EU, how it works, and which "joining" criteria are for which "parts" of the EU and/or EFTA...Starmer, being a lawyer, of course knows about the needed criteria, therefor can't promise something, which can't be promised, as it is up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when...
When people/Brits, don't know the facts, of course they're getting angry about Starmer, thinking, that he won't "fulfill" their wishes = a quick joining the SM...which in reality isn't available...as written before...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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As a born EU citizen living in the EU27 with my London born spouse I can't be a "Brexitter", but it looks like you're in line with all those Brits/ Brexitters as well as Remainers, that don't like facts about = the EUs joining criteria article 49 TEU 😂
All these supposed "options" the UK seems to have, like the two, three, multi tiered EU "membership", the "closer alignment", just joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU etc DON'T EXIST !!
The UK is talking to itself and always seem to forget, that it's the EUs decision ONLY...
Our club, our rules !!
As joining the EU goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades (see Turkiye, candidate status since 1999).
The average timespan needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST !!
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment !!
To fulfill those needed criteria will take ages, as one of them is to have a national debt of max < 60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
If only you would have Inet...
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@cyberfunk3793 All of this was put up after 1945, it's called "power split" to prevent dictatorships.
The situation you mentioned (President against Chancelor), which never happened before/yet, it can be sorted by the Federal Constitution High Court.
As you were stating, that "the President could sent an army into war, but the Chancelor doesn't want it", sorry, but it doesn't work like that !!
Germany has a Parliament Army, that means, that the following institutions have to confirm anything to do with soldiers, armery: the Federal Defense Commitee, the Federal Parliament, the Federal Upper House, the Federal President, the Federal Chancelor, so that never ever just one person in Gvt can start a war by sending the army to somewhere. And there it is again: power split.
Greetings from the Federal Republic of Germany 😉
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Agree to that, but: hardly any heat pumps are available anymore (sold out) because of the recent situation! But nat gas for heating is only about 15%, the most of nat gas is used in the German industry as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units, Aspirin, dairy products, cosmetic products etc, etc. This is why EU/Germany want to replace nat gas with green hydrogen in the near future. Its on the way, time plan was focused on 2030-2045 to be compleately off with coal/oil/nat gas. Because of this terrible war it all has to be done in "fast forward" modus including interims solutions.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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UK is in NATO...
Joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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@xXAscendingPhoenixXx
When people are coming to western European countries, in this case Germany, for a better life, with may be wrong expectations (culture, lifestyle etc), and then are not able to handle it because of their cultural backround, it starts getting difficult. That's got nothing to do with racismn.
If you're thinking it's "normal", that police appearance is needed at public fests to protect women in case of ...., NO it's not :-((
Btw, most of immigrants are doing good over here, it's just and always a specific group, unfortunately always the same clientel :-((
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@satyr1349 Frisian and Lower Saxon/Nedderdüütsch language are partly the roots of English language, both languages are still spoken over here in Germany all along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea) by about 4 million Germans.
Like:
E the/ LS de/ G der, die, das
E water/ LS water/ G Wasser
E that/ LS dat/ G das
E school/ LS school/ G Schule
E he, she, me, you/ LS he, se, mie, yi/ G er, sie, mir/ mich, du/ Sie
E sister/ LS soster/ G Schwester
E ten/ LS tein/ G zehn
E clock/ LS klock/ G Uhr
So ten o'clock = klock tein = zehn Uhr.
Groetens ut Bremen
Greetings from Bremen
Grüße aus Bremen
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@urseliusurgel
Well, I never said, that they're not dangerous, because they are !!
But, like Meloni, has silenced about "leaving" since being in power...doing quite "moderate" EU politics, but national politics, she is doing exactly as "promised" to the Italian electorate...😒
They all know, that none of them would be able to stand on their own = Brexit/UK is the "best" example for that...
We're keeping "an eye" on them, as shown at huge demonstrations "anti fas☆☆☆s 😎 with hundreds of thousands of people over here 💪, to show them, that we are the majority, not them !!
Resist the beginnings !!
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Apart from no other country has sent any modern western battle tanks yet either....
There are about 2.000 Leopards 2 in the EU and Turkiye.
Turkiye and Greece have about 500 Leopards 2 each, but won't send any, nor won't Austria.
From the about 950ish Leopard 2 A4/5/6/7 most of them are in actively use for the NRFNATO responce force all along the east Nato border.
The EU member states will send about 90ish Leopard 2 A4/5/6 to Ukraine this spring time.
Training has already started.
The 100 Leopard 1 from German stock plus another 80ish Leopard 1 from the Netherlands and Denmark plus some Challengers will be sent as well ...
Abrams will be send in one year.
Add on: Germany has sent MARS II, IRIS-T, PZH2000, Gepard systems, COBRA, Marders, Buffalos, Beavers and other "heavy animals" as well, still ongoing ...
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@diegomartinez7180 Yes.
It' origins on the ancient Germanic tribes, like the "Alemannen", todays federal state of Baden-Württemberg, bordering todays France...
Depending on which ancient Germanic tribes where located to their neighbours, todays Germany's neighbouring countries are calling Germany = Saxion, Prussian, etc = Germany is the country with the most different names 😂
Greetings from Deutschland 👋🍻
Btw, the term "deutsch" origins from the term "Thiutisk = us people", and then evolved over the last 2.000ish years to = tuisk, tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch" 😂
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 Ok 👌
Just on the main news over here: apart from Poland all other countries are very reserved, like Turkiye (500 Leos), Greece (500 Leos), both countries don't want to deliver Leos, and even Finland
now is just offering a "may be we could support with some training".
There must be some concerns, where nobody wants to talk about in public.
Poland recently (suddenly after shouting out the whole time) stated, that it "might" do the official request to German Gvt to give permission for passing on the Polish Leos.
At the same time the Ukrainian Gvt/ ministry of defense is under pressure because of severe corruption, as various hundreds of millions of € (Ukraine financial support) disappeared. Zelensky stated, it will be sorted, but severe corruption was one of the main problems, why Ukraine wasn't allowed to apply for EU membership.
Anyway, looks like, that we won't solve those problems.
Today the German army startet to install various Patriot air defense systems (owed by German army) at the eastern Polish border, to defend towards Russia.
It will be sortet, I'm optimistic about that ....
Have a nice evening with greetings to NI from Germany 😉
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@michaelkrzak5414 Ok 👌
Those Patriot air defense systems are owed by the German army same as Poland owes some Leopards. Germany is putting some up in Poland, some others (as far as I know), are already in Slowakia.
Since January the NRFNato VJTF responce force with about 11.000 troops ( from which 8.000 are German troops) incl full equipment ( like about 40ish Leopard 2 A7V and other " stuff") are at the Baltics as well.
The western EU/ Nato countries are aware of the situation, Germany has sent MARS II, PZH 2000, Gepard and COBRA systems, IRIS-T and other most modern "stuff".
They just brought it on the news, Turkiye (500 Leos), Greece (500 Leos), both countries don't want to deliver Leos, even Finland now is stating, that it could offer "some training".
May be there are some concerns going on, where nobody wants to talk about in public?! Understandable, as it's war.
Also just on the news: Ukraine/ ministry of defense is under pressure because of severe corruption ( various hundreds of millions € of financial help for Ukraine disappeared), Zelensky stated it will be sortet ... :-((
The Baltics are highly protected by Nato, Germany is there since 2014 doing its NATO job with about 1.700 troops, from which two thirds are German plus another 2.000 troops are on stand by in case of urgent needed action.
Germany is also doing the air policing at the Baltics as well as some German Fregates are "cruising" in the Baltic Sea to protect the Baltics from the sea side.
I'm optimistic about that subject/ tank delivery .... it will get sortet.
Have a nice evening with greetings to Poland from Germany 😉
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@Tititateo63 Its the other way around, I'm afraid so. The nat gas is mostly (at least in Germany) used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units, Aspirin, car tyres, cosmetics, plastics etc. Only about 15% of nat gas is used for heating in Germany. 43 % of electricity is produced by renewables (wind, solar, water) in Germany. The coal power plants will be used temporarily as power back up in the winter and can also handle the changing inputs from the renewables. EU/ Germany will replace oil/ coal/ nat gas with green hydrogen in the near future. Goal is focused on 2030-2045. Hydrogen can also be used as battery storage for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. If that terrible war wouldn't be, we wouldn't even have to talk about this subject (reactivating coal power plants etc). This situation will just speed up the development towards green energy.
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@logansolares3699 NO.
After the Russian army left the region around Kiew, the Ukrainian army found all those Russian "left overs" = tanks, all military equipment, parade uniforms, ready for doing the "victory parade", they also found written down diaries, stating, that "the Russian soldiers are looking forward to celebrate the freeing of Ukraine with Ukrainian people"...and Ukrainian people themselfs discribed, that after some days the Russian army ran out of fuel/petrol/food/ virtually everything = therefor the Russian soldiers started to plunder shops/bakeries etc, because they were hungry ...
The Russians thought, it would be a quick and easy take 😂
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@johnfisher697 NO.
Joining the EU isn't "negotiations", but "working off a bucket list" and it goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
Right now the EU27 don't have any appetite to have the UK back in their club.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
Instead the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Again = our club, our rules !!
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@awonderingsoul2445 Canada? Mein Bruder hat bis vor einigen Jahren in Calgary gelebt.
Ja, danke, das wird schon! Die EU / Deutschland hat einen "strammen" Zeitplan, um von allen fossilen Brennstoffen auszusteigen, Ziel war/ ist 2030-2045. Die jetzige Situation beschleunigt aber gerade alles. Wärmepumpen Solar Paneele etc, alles ausverkauft. 48% des Stroms werden bereits mit Erneuerbaren produziert (Wind, Solar, Wasser). Wir könnten bereits weiter sein, aber na ja.
Daimler und Volvo Trucks und die Faun Gruppe haben Wasserstoff betriebene Trucks entwickelt, die bereits in Betrieb sind und vor einigen Wochen sind die Weltweit ersten 14 Wasserstoffzüge (Alston) in Niedersachsen in
Betrieb gegangen.
Namibia und Deutschland wollen den Weltgrößten Solarpark errichten, zusammen mit einer Produktionsanlage für grünen Wasserstoff und Ammoniak.
Grüße nach Canada 😉
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@davidrenton
Whatever. . just believe harder ...looking at the recent situation the UK is in = raising cases of Victorian deseases = rickets and scurvy, bankrupt cities/communities, like Birmingham and Nottingham etc, crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, etc, etc...
Fitch affirms UK rating AA-
outlook negative
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms the EU rating AAA
outlook stable
UKs national debt is at 101,2 %
Germany's national debt 66,3 %
The EU27 have put up € ONE TRILLION for going green = the EUs "green deal"
The EU27 are the biggest supporter of Ukraine, financially, military and humanitarian aid, and took about 4 million Ukrainian refugees...
Germany is by far the second largest donor to Ukraine and has taken about 1.1ish million Ukrainian refugees so far (figures still raising)
"EU can't even defend itself".... but UK can? 😂
You're aware, that there is NATO, of which the UK is member, like most EU member states?
And that there is the biggest NATO maneuvers happening recently? With 90.000 troops, btw, at the moment the maneuvers are ongoing in Poland, where British/German pioneers are Training, to get the other NATO troops across Polands biggest river...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@smokeango
I stand corrected, as I misread the instruction about it.
But how to you want to use any of modern equipment, as Lithium is build in: computers, notebooks, smart phones, e scooter, every wireless tool/ drill etc,
If your concerns about Lithium are that "tight/ strong", you shouldn't even be using the Inet nor your "tool" for using it. What would be your alternative solution for that?
Btw, the Inet on its own is using about one third of ALL on the planets electricity consumption, just for keeping up the needed infrastructure (server, clouds etc), not very ecological either.
Just saying ...
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The Romans called ALL tribes living to the right side of the river Rhine "Germanic", while those tribes which were living there didn't even call themselfes that.
The term "Deutsch" origins from the term "Thiutisk = us people", which evolved over the last 2.000ish years to "tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch ".
Germany is the country with the most different names, given by the neighbouring ancient tribes, which were living to the ancient "Germanic tribes....like the "Alemannen, todays federal state of Baden-Württemberg", bordering todays France....etc 😊
Greetings from Deutschland to Canada 😊👋
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@GlynBoughton 😂
The £ 350 million never existed due to the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher...the UK never paid its full membership fee...instead it paid about one third of it only...
Considering that EZs membership fee is used for the needed infrastructure, shared by ALL EUs member states, like the border police, customs controls, vet check ups, including civil services and infrastructure, professional EUs negotiators working on behalf of ALL EUs member states, the loss of those 756 EUs trade deals/agreements with best conditions due to EUs size/soft power with countries all over the world ...
And the loss of EUs subsidies, like those €650 million, Cornwall received every five years since the UK was EU member state...
Eus subsidies always go to the regions/districts/projects directly, like EUs fund for infrastructure, social projects for kids/youth etc, culture, art, for poor regions etc...
UK lost £ 100 billion due to Brexit in 2022
UK lost £ 149 billion due to Brexit in 2023 | Bloomberg and Financial Times and UKgov 2024
All if what was sharde within EUs member states the UK has to supply and pay for on its own now 😂
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@johnrussell3961 Errr, such a strange view of history you have, John 😉
It might calm you down a bit, in case you're English, then one third of your DNA is Saxon (research from 2019). Opposit to all other people from other countries, which were in ancient England, only the Saxons left the largest DNA impact on the English people, why ever ....
Btw, the "Celts" weren't a specific tribe ("races" don't exist, defined by science of today), but more of the same culture over a certain region in Europe and the British Islands.
Greetings from Bremen
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@JupiterThunder
Remember the British Empire?
While the Osman Empire dissolved, the Brits took over by installing all those artificial borders without taking care of the already existing tribal/territorial borders at todays Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq...
....until these days trouble is ongoing in all those regions/countries, due to those, by the Brits installed artificial borders...and most of refugees, coming over towards the EU27, are coming from those areas...
...and all of that the Brits did, to protect their already dissolving British Empire..
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@Mudireddy First of all it's Cosco, which only bought 24.9% of one of the smallest terminals at Hamburg ports. Therefor no say about the management/ politics/ decisions made at Hamburg ports. It's a common issue for huge shipping companies to buy parts of an terminal, like Maersk, MSC, DFDS or others.
Btw, Cosco also bought parts of terminals at Rotterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Bilbao, Valencia, Pyreaus and 10 other EU ports and lots more world wide.
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@Gary Phelps He is saying it, because the UK/GB CAN'T RETURN to the SM, as there are only two options available: full EU membership or EFTA.
EFTA (Norwegian modell) isn't available either, as Norway is stating since 2016 that it'll veto the UK/GB joining EFTA, as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
To become a full EU member, the UK/GB has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, and only if none of the EU27 member states vetoes UK/GB, the entry negotiations with the EU would start, which could take decades.
Just access to the SM was and is never possible, as the SM is the core/heart of the EU and therefor highly protected.
No "fast track", no exceptions for any country in the world, as stated recently by the EU Commission.
Greetings from the EU
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@JJVernig
It's not that, problem here is, that all those Brits, which are hoping to get back into the EU, are exited about him talking like this, that gives wrong hope...
Why?
Because to be back into the EU will go like this:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated various times by various EU spokesmen.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Verhofstadt knows about all of this... as he was in Barniers team for the Brexit negotiations.
Btw, right now the UK is moving away from the Copenhagen Criteria...
Estimated time about 15ish years for joining the EU again, which includes the time BEFORE fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria (EUs Commission estimate due to experience of other countries joining process).
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@eagleearberry5613
Yeah, a bit too optimistic ..
About Turkiye: the EU have put the joining process with Turkiye on hold... since years... why?
Well, since Turkiye had stripped down the human rights/womens rights, independent justice, free speech/press, has still occupied parts of Cyprus, and has massive problems with heavy corruption, Turkiye doesn't even fulfill the Copenhagen Criteria anymore, and is further away from joining the EU then ever...
About Ukraine: as stated by various EU spokesmen recently, it will take minimum 10 years AFTER the war has finished, before Ukraine will be able to join the EU. Eventhough it received the status as a "candidate for EU membership", which normally a country only receives AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, which Ukraine WOULDN'T fulfill recently.... it got it because of the war, so the EUs Commission can use "different pots of money for Ukraine", but of course the still existing corruption has to be sorted and lots of other issues...therefor Ukraine (apart from fighting the war) still has a long way to go.
Before the war Ukraine didn't even fulfill any of the EUs member ship criteria...
Your guess, that the UK is decades away from joining the EU again, I would agree on that, I'm afraid...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@NoName-hg6cc
Not comparable at all...war mongering/criminality can't be compared with a country, which doesn't have its taxation system in order, where people, which died ages ago, still received pensions, etc: no money coming into the countries household, therefor the whole of the €/Euro zone was in danger to collapse...this is why Germany, France and the ECB took care, including giving credits to Greece, to stabilise its financial system, BUT, with conditions TO SORT its messed up system..... and in the end, it worked...
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You are aware, that all NATO members had reduced their military (soldiers, armery) by 70% (yes, I also thought, that it can't be correct, but it is!) in the last 30 years, because all thought, after the wall opened, its over with the Russian thread. Most European army's nowadays are layed out for missions like Mali etc, not so much for home defence anymore. European NATO member states have to work together, than its a strong army.
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@anarchords1905
Yes, you were, but 🥳
I know it must be pretty frustrating over there, knowing, that it'll last for quite a while...and then I'm coming up with.. facts..
At least one can adjust better to that, instead of having wrong hope all the time..
The EUs Commission/negotiators/spokesmen are stating the same over and over since years now, what has to be done by the UK, like "implementing the TCA/NIP/Windsor agreement properly", that "joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement...
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
But, it seems, the UK, its politicians as well as its electorate seem to be deaf about those messages...sigh...
Btw, both of your posts are still there, please go in from beginning of all comments, click "newest", back to the original post = voila, visible 😁
Anyway, I wish you all the best with greetings to Scotland from the EU27/Bremen 🍻👋
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@GammonBrexitNews
Well, tell me then, how it was possible last year, that 20 of 21 trucks with food coming via EU, weren't ok anymore....
Again, when there is just a huge British company/food supplier, buying food "en masse", from somewhere in the EU/or via EU, the stuff arrived and gets distributed all over the UK, ending up at supermarkets...
Normally it goes like that: food imports get checked at the borders by all needed institutions/or vets... and when tested to be ok, the food gets distributed all over the country...which the UKs Gvt doesn't do since Brexit...your borders are wide open to anything and everything...and the smugglers etc know about it...
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To pick out just Germany, when in fact the G20 are making up 81% of the worlds polution...
Yes, us people living in the EU27, USA, Australia, Canada are using the most/per head, I know that = tell that the people, which don't want to change their habits =
like online shopping, fast fashion, coffee to go, buying all stuff/tents, clothes, sleeping bags, seats = just for one festival and leave it there/dump it, after the festival is done = brilliant NOT,
... lots of packaging for all those "online shopping actions", streaming = one third of worlds energy consumption is used by the inet/servers etc, digital currency= uses xx-times more energy than anything else, the ever getting bigger cars/EVs included/more horsepower..buying cheap stuff from online platforms from all over the world, etc = not helpfull either
....if every person on this planet would use as many resources than us in the western countries = we would need 2,6 planets 😒
It's ALL up to US, to change that = the CONSUMERS ...
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The Romans left Britannia at 410 AD (written down by them).
The ancient Saxons arrived first at about 450 AD in todays England, at that time they were pagan, no church people had been around there in todays federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
Wilehad, a monk from Lindisfarne, was missioning the ancient Saxons on behalf of Charlemagne, while the ancient Saxons were still fighting against the ancient Franks/Charlemagne troops, Wilehad was the first Bishop of Bremen in 789 AD.
This is, why I wrote "Lower-Saxon language/then", but of course over here it's Low German /de Nedderdüütsche spraak ...
Hol di fuchtig met Groetens ut Bremen 😊
All the best with greetings from Bremen 🍻
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Hi there, Steve 🖐,
yes, I agree, but there has to be a "change of mindset towards the EU" first, which has to come from within the UK and its people, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote for "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0" again.
Also urgently needed in the UK is education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs (with PR), working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, education should start already at school, like it is in most of the EU member states...
The UKs FPTP system should be changed to a "PR voting system", like it is in ALL the other EU member states and the EUs Parliament, to make sure, that a minority of 35% doesn't get a majority of 80 seats in the UKs Parliament... a proper Constitution (all in one, not a collection of loose papers) might help as well...
There is lots of work and ambition needed for all of you over there... and patience, as THIS won't be a "quick one".
The EUs Commission has estimated (due experience), that it'll take minimum 10-15 years AFTER applying for EU membership... please don't forget, that the application can be done only, AFTER an applying country has fulfilled the Copenhagen Criteria, which gets monitored by the EUs Commission, and then ALL EU27 member states have the right to veto the UK joining the EU again...
All infos/criteria needed for joining the EU are available at the EUs Commission site 😊
Being married into an in England living English family, but living in the EU with my London born spouse, who had to get dual citizenship because of Brexit, I'll cross the fingers for you !
Good luck and all the best with greetings from the EU27 😊 🖐
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Well, it's going like that ONLY =
every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
The EU27 changed some joining criteria due to the financial crisis in 2008, therefor ALL APPLYING 3rd countries need to have a national debt of max < 60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
As it's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, those new EUs joining criteria/national debt are part of that.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Those criteria are for ALL APPLYING 3rd countries...not for UK only !!
No opt outs, no exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track anymore for any country in the world, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen/Commission various times since years !!
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@harold4506
Don't know, in which country you're living, but I just give you an example about "Germany's energy consumption", in this case BASF, the worlds largest chemical production plant has the same consumption of energy per year as Switzerland...
Btw, about 52% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water), still raising...
Don't wait for the EU27/Germany to "collapse", like it's doing so since decades at any minute 🤣 😎
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt, and one in Spain or Portugal.
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Well, I'm from Bremen, where I'm living with my London born spouse 😊
Again, the EU27 are in transition going green... investing into the future while at the same time "running" the usual business...
The whole world is a bit "out of tune" recently, which isn't very helpfull... but the timespan for going green was already agreed on before the pandemic, wars etc happened, considering that Germany is the second largest donor to Ukraine (1st USA), has taken about 3,3 million refugees so far/ still raising, it's going quite good.
AfD, yes, but don't forget, we've got PR voting system over here, therefor the other 80% of the electorates voices go to the other parties 😊 and its another two years to the next GE in Germany...
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms the EU rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms UK rating AA-
outlook negative
Greetings from Bremen 😊🖐
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It goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
Every EU member state has one voice, Malta (about 550.000 people) the same as Germany (about 84ish million people), every EU member state has one voice.
Various EUs member states stated recently/analogous, that they'll "wouldn't even take UKs application form" at the moment...
Forgot to say = the EUs Commission is WORKING ON BEHALF of the EU27 member states !!
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The "Swiss modell/deal " isn't available anymore, as stated by various EU spokesmen over and over again, because of "too much hustle".
Norway/EFTA also has stated various times, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available is full EU membership by applying for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated various times by the EUs spokesmen.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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VW has lost 14 %, NOT 50 % 🙄
It's mostly the Chinese market...but VW owns Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, Ducati, Audi, Bentley, Porsche, and vehicles production..114 production plants with 675.805 people working there...
Neither the EU27, nor Germany or VW are "collapsing"...
Germany is the worlds third largest economy, inflation rate is 2,2 %, national debt 66,3 %...
Rather make sure, that you don't have the "heat or eat" issues over there again this coming Winter...
Btw, U v d Leyens husband is German, born in Hanover...
If only you would have Inet, then you simply could look up about those facts 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 👋
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@urseliusurgel 🙄
Oh, please, that's a bit of a stretch and quibble here, the €/Euro coins only show partly the outline of the left part of the European Continent ..the Baltics, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Balkans etc are missing, eventhough most of them are using the €/Euro ..
Quite funny your statement, especially as the UK never joined the €/Euro zone 😂
I'm seeing the "situation" very clear, as half of my family are British living in England, of which half of them voted for Brexit...while my London born spouse and I are living in the EU27....🥳
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@peter_meyer
Well, the whole Region was flooded at x-mas 2023, same as most of Lower-Saxony/Bremen/Hamburg.....when the sea level is too high due to inlands going storms, pushing the sea water towards the coast lines/inlands.... therefor higher high-tide levels, higher waves, hence the rivers can't get rid of their water-overloads into the sea, get pushed back ... water levels in the rivers/ditches etc raise, caused by permanent heavy rain for weeks, groundwater levels raising, dykes get soft due to permanent heavy rain..,, and had to be stabilised with sand bags, or weeks ongoing heavy rain = floodings happen...
It's a terrible "chain reaction"...
Greetings from Bremen 🖐
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The EU27 are the ones, which will "declare a applying country to be a candidate for EU membership", NOT the applying country does !!
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently..
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria...
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
No "negotiations", but just a "list of joining criteria" have to be fulfilled and implemented by every applying country !!
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Add on =
the EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA/CU included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states !!
The Treaty of Rome "set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
All of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957 and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s, and Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU, and the "creator" of the "Schuman plan".
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Robert Schuman/French Minister/PM and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925, talks about a EUropean Union stopped..
But Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet went ahead with it 😊
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 💪😊
Btw, the EU27 just put up € 800 billion for its defence and to go ahead with supporting Ukraine !!
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@swiftflight7927 😉
Don't worry, I had funny discussions with my London born spouse why a table is "male", but the UK is "a girl/das", the Netherlands are " female/die" and the Lebanon is "male/der" LOL
Btw, the "German moon is male/der" and the sun ist "female", while ALL other countries, like Spain, Italy and France have it exactly the other way around: sun/male, moon/ female "gg".
But Germans find it quite strange, that native English speaking people are "afraid when being sorry", but that's how languages are LOL
Ahh, I love languages 😉
May I ask, are you learning German because you want to move to a German speaking country?
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@swiftflight7927 Hi and thanks for answering 😉
That's interesting indeed, I only found out some years ago that the German language was one of the three leading languages of science until 1919.
I've also got "relatives" somewhere in Virginia (no contact though, I only know through old documents), they left Bremen with the "North-German Lloyd" shipping company some time around 1821-1840ish.
Recently I visited the "Emigrants House Bremerhaven/Auswanderer Haus ...", where they keep/store all records/figures/people/ships etc since people started to leave the EUropean Continent by ship.
As I wanted to find my ancestors (two men, Johann/John and Heinrich/ Henry), but unfortunately our ancestors/ civil servants decided in 1875 to errase all data until three years before departure because of "overload of files", all together about 7,5 million people left EUrope via Bremen/ Bremerhaven, so it's understandable.
So if you still know when and with which ship your ancestors came and where from (country/region/area) keep it, and may be pass it on to the "Auswanderer Haus Bremerhaven", as everything is digital now 😉
If ever you might have the chance to visit Germany/Bremen/Bremerhaven it would be worth it to visit this "interactive" museum.
All the best to you with greetings to the US from Bremen 😉
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@philip_fletcher 🙄
Doesn't matter, as it's for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, and the EUs Commission stated various times since years, that "a Swiss deal won't happen anymore, because of too much hassle"... Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
On top of that = ALL 4 EFTA member states have about 16ish million people living there, the UK has about 67ish million people, THAT would outbalance the EFTA members, which isn't wanted !!
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK !!
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
It'll take decades to be back in the EU27..
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@mayanormesdik
Einfach mal googeln, "Skorbut und Rachitis in UK"....
Bei extremer, Brexit bedingter Armut gibt es im UK = Dosenfutter, auch Kartoffeln, vorgekocht, selbst Milchreis etc, weil die Leute nicht das Geld haben, zu kochen "heat or eat", es wird kalt aus der Dose gegessen, die British food banks haben extra Lebensmittelrationen, die vorgekochtes Essen verteilen, weil die Leute sie darum gegebenen haben ihnen kein frisches Gemüse zu geben = nicht mal Kartoffeln, da sie es aus Kostengründen nicht kochen können.
Viele Mietwohnungen haben diese "Strommeter", dort zahlt man mit einer Prepaidkarte = gibt's nur in speziellen Läden (wenn die geschlossen haben, bleibt die Wohnung kalt und dunkel), und dann gibt's es für 20 £ für max drei Tage Strom, wenn man vorsichtig haushaltet...geheizt wird übrigens auch mit Strom..
Die Stromanbieter kann man sich bei den Strommeter-Betreibern nicht aussuchen, weshalb der Strom dann nochmal erheblich teurer ist...seit Brexit wurden vermehrt Strommeter in Britischen Wohnungen eingebaut...
Die Hälfte meiner Familie sind Briten, bin also bestens informiert ....
Apropos =frisches Gemüse/Obst", hatte Frau Dittert doch in ihrem Bericht erwähnt, Brexit bedingt kommt das meiste Obst/Gemüse bereits halb verwelkt im UK an...deswegen Sauerkraut = lange haltbar, mehr Vit C als Kiwi und Zitrone zusammen.... wussten schon die alten (deutschen Seefahrer = Krauts 😁)...
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@huginnmuninn2155 OK, see here, please:
the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have this project called
" green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Hydrogen can be used as battery storage for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities.
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (coal, oil, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction all along the coast lines.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks as well as the Faun Group, those trucks/ vehicles are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water).
About 30.000 windmills all over Germany are producing electricity, figures still raising.
Greetings from Germany
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@timonsolus Errr...no.
No ship from the American Continent has to "ship around the UK", but use the channel, like all other ships, and France, the Netherlands, Germany also have radar, submarines, jets and stuff 🙄
Btw, some months ago there were Dutch, Norwegian and German mine hunters, frigates etc at Canary Warf/London = NATO maneuver 😁
British and German air forces are doing the air policing at the Baltics, always with British/German cockpit crews..
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Errr, I didn't "call out" any Empire, IF you would have been reading my various posts as seen above.
NO WAR or other is good at all, neither what the Nazis did, nor any of the so called "colonial powers/empires, as ALL of them did actually just "occupied/invaded/colonialised" countries, where also millions of people died either due starvation (about 50ish million Indians/Bengals) died through British occupation/colonialism, about 1,5 million Irish people died through British occupation/colonialism, all together due to British "colonialism/occupation/colonialism/invasions" about 185ish million people died worldwide ... nothing to be "proud off" really....
At least Germany/the German people are admitting their past, trying to make sure, that "this will never happen again", have paid compensation, as much as it's possible, have given back stolen items to the original owners/countries/people, and are supporting those nations with humanitarian aid/money.
Opposit to the UK, which still "thinks", it's an "Empire", and most of the British museums are stuffed with "stolen goods" from all around the world, where the British Empire had set its "foot" on, including most of the "Crown juwelries, those huge diamants etc...
It's about time, as we're living in 2023, to get "rid off" these "imperial habits".
Btw, Waterloo you Brits only won, because of the support of the Dutch army, the army from the house of Hanover and Brunswick, and the Prussian army under leadership of General Blucher.
Same goes for both WWs, of which only WW II was started by Germany, but at both WWs without the support/help of the French, Polish, Americans, Canadians, Russians the UK would have had problems.
Notice: I'm very happy, greatfull and thankfull, that all of these nations/people freed Europe from the Nazi dictatorship.
Forgot to say, this vlog is about "King Charles", as far as I know, he's the King of the UK/GB, therefor it's quite normal, one would think, to talk about the UK ...
About the Nazis and King Edward VIII, thankfully he had to resign because of his (later) American wife, as he and her were Nazis and both good friends with H.
Like that Oswald Mosley and "his blackshirts".
Imagine the terrible reputation the UK would have had, having a Nazi King.
Btw, my London born spouse and I are living in Germany. Half of my married on English family has been in service for the Queen ...
Have a nice evening 😊
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He can't promise "joining the SM", as being in the SM is available only for EU members and EFTA members, not though for 3rd countries...
Joining the EU again would be like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Starmer (being a lawyer) knows ALL of those needed criteria very well, and this is, why he can't promise any of that...
Btw, before applying for EU membership again, there would be urgently needed education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs working on behalf of the EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens etc, best to start that education already at school, like it's happening in most EU member states..., otherwise the UKs electorate might vote for "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0" again.
About Johnson and his lot: NONE of these guys/British negotiators included, had any idea about "how the EU works and what it's for", Barnier and his team stated various times while the Brexit negotiations were ongoing "that he is fed up, that they (Barnier and team) have to explain the Brits, how the EU works and what it's for".
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site book shop...
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Treaty of Rome = "....set up the EEC = bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
Churchill as well as Thatcher jumped onto an already existing train ...
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@DavidMoxham957
Dear David,
@aukebij, Marinus, Maarten, a b, and I are born EU citizens, living in the EU27...over here the EUs Commission/negotiators/spokesmen/statements are very present all the time...hence we're quit e well informed...apart from, that everything is available at the EUs Commission site...what we're posting here/analogous..
The EUs Commission is stating since years now, that the TCA is as it is, that there won't be any re-negotiations or other, just a REVIEW...the maximum will be some issues like the "youth mobility", or simular..that's it..
I'm sorry for all of you over there, which didn't want this, but have to live with the consequences !!
My London born spouse wasn't even allowed to vote because of the "living more than 15 years abroad" rule, had to get dual citizenship because of Brexit...
UKs recent status quo as a 3rd country will stay for quite a while..
I wish you all the best with greetings 👋
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Well, Farage cheated, when filling in the application forms for German citizenship...
One has to live in Germany for eight years, before it's possible, to apply for citizenship...
Farage used his German brother in laws address, not knowing, that everybody, living in Germany, has to get registered at that village/town/city with ones addres, it's needed, because in Germany tax has to be paid, where one is living, and not, where one is working...
Therefor the German authorities sussed out pretty quick, that Farage didn't appear anywhere 😂
Such a shame that is ..NOT 😎
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Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
The former Tory gvt left the recent gvt a pile of shards...you should "hold accountable" the Tory's, which were in gvt for the last 14 years !!
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@MrMeow-xl7pd Pyreaus 100 %, Valencia 51%, Bilbao 39,5 %, Seebrugge 90 %, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Marseille, Le Havre, Genoa, etc, all those EU ports are partly rented/sold to Cosco/ China. And yes, I do understand very well about this issue, living in a city with a large port.
Greetings from the EU
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@EdJames-tb9oz 🙄
Try to read again = Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Todays EUs joining criteria AREN'T the same anymore as they were in the 1970s...and EFTA is NOT the first step to join EU !!
The EU27 have changed some joining criteria due to the financial crisis in 2008, hence there is a national debt of max 55-60 % needed, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently..
A written Constitution is needed as well..All needed EUs joining criteria article 49 TEU are available at the EUs Commission site..
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No opt outs, no exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years !!
"...while UK is currently misbehaving" 😂
Well, 47 years of demanding opt outs up to the last minute of its membership and even now misbehaving, as UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago ...
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
ALL 4 EFTA members make up about 16ish million people, the UK about 67ish million people...that would outbalance the EFTA members, which isn't wanted.
As that will never change, it's more than likely, that UK won't join EFTA ever...
About EUs voting system =
yes, for IMPORTANT decisions to be made, like for EUs household or NEW MEMBER STATES the ONE VOICE VOTING SYSTEM gets used...for all other EUs decisions the qualified majority with a 73,91 % majority gets used.
The average timespan needed is stated by EUs negotiators, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
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@lucasgssilveira
Just look up for the "green hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts.
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
When 27 countries/EU, with their 450ish million citizens and the USA with their 350 million citizens are going green, don't you think, they know, what they're doing?!
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"They" = Germany, is my country, and lots of projects are ongoing here since years, as this "going green" isn't just a "new" issue, but ongoing since years...like the EUs green deal = value € 1 trillion to support projects within the EU27, like building electrolyseurs (wind to power), for steel mills, etc...
Please look up for "green hydrogen coast line ", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and the gvts.
Quibbling and whataboutism isn't helpfull one bit... and again, one would think, that when 27 countries/EU with their 450ish million citizens and the USA with their 350 million citizens are going green, they should know, what they're doing...
And again...greetings from the EU27 👋 😎
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Oh dear 🙄
The "European Courts" = is the ECHR, which was founded after WWII, and DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING to do with the EU27, since 48 countries are members in the ECHR, of which 27 are EU member states only.
The ECHR was founded to protect HUMAN RIGHTS, yours included !!
About British borders = claim your own Gvt for not taking care of any of national issues...which is, what your gvt could have done ALL THE TIME while being EU member state 😂, instead it preferred, to blame national politics on the EU, as that was so comfortable...
By voting for Brexit, you voted for supposedly EUs issues, but in reality it were/and are still your crappy British national politics 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@The1trueDave
Well, when I look back, there were people on the streets in the 1950s, 1960s 1970s, 1980s etc, for all different reasons: peace, freedom, human rights, women rights, etc. Each generation has it's "issues", and the "nasty ones" were and are always amongst us.
Greetings from the EU
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@ElMaestroGordo
Well, EVERY country, which wants to trade with any other countries, has to follow the rules of its trading partners...independently from if it's the EU or any other countries all over the world...
The closing of Port Talbot steel mill has got NOTHING to do with the EU27...
The EUs "green deal" has a value of € ONE TRILLION for "going green"...
Therefor various steel mills within EU27 member states received already € billions, to build their own windmills/electrolyseurs and arc furnaces, to produce green steel in the near future...
It was a Tata Steel decision only, to close down Port Talbot steel mill, but that had nothing to do with the EU27 or "going green" !!
None of those steel mills, which are located within the EU27, have made any steel workers redundant...because, all it is = instead of burning coal/nat gas, green hydrogen is doing the "job", but everything else of the steel producing proceedure stays the same...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Yes.
But don't underestimate the lack of 60.000ish staff for customs/border/vet check ups, including civil services etc, and missing infrastructure, which the former Tory gvt didn't prepare...now Starmer has to sort this, but can't, as he can't pull it out the hat, like a magician..
When visiting the EU27, he got told, that the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as the UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Forgot to say = some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Pretty clear statement that is..
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@aaronwinegar9724
No EU member states are thinking about leaving the EU27, and those right wing parties, which had been very loud about that subject before Brexit, have gone completely silent.
It costs us 450ish million EU citizens € 2,33 per month/head to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable and appreciated 😁
While the UK was EU member, it was continiously demanding opt outs (and still does /treaties etc, eventhough its not a EU member anymore), the British MEPs were, when being in the EUs Parliament, behaving like the "bad boys from the back bench, trampling with their feet, while waving a mini union jack", while their EU collegues/MEPs were doing their work.
The UK/Brexit isn't a subject over here anymore, it's done, and as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen "the UK can join the EU again UNDER THE KNOWN CONDITIONS", and THAT goes like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (if not done properly, joining process stops instantly), which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU is 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria at the moment...
Urgently needed, before the UK would apply for EU membership, would be education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs (with PR), working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0 " again.
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@LloydTaray-bt7ho
The Russians were in Afghanistan first, and left a mess there, when they left...
Nato went into Afghanistan after 9/11, while schools, hospitals, water supply etc were build, women/girls could go to schools/universities/ work, the Taliban were cowardly hiding in Pakistan or in the rural areas of Afghanistan for 20 years, and only crawled out of their holes, when Nato left.
One can't help a country/Afghanistan, when half of its population/men, support the Taliban...those changes of mindset have to come from within the country and its people, not though from the "outside".
After Taliban have taken over Afghanistan again, six months later Taliban are begging for money, food and medical aid now at the evil western countries 😅😎
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There are no "closer alignments" with the EU27 available, instead UK should finally implement those deals, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago !!
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
UK is a 3rd country now = 3rd country rules apply !!
As stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen/Commission "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member state", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only".
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@seanpatrick1243 🙄
So you expect 27 countries with their 450 million citizens to "change their voting rules" to benefit UKs wishes? 😂 Wow.
"Have you ever been involved in high level negotiations, because I have" 🙄
Especially then you should take those statements, done by the EUs Commission/negotiators/spokesmen quite serious...
Why do Brits seem to think all the time, that "the EU27" are spinning around the UK?
If only one of you would have a look at the EUs Commission site, where all those official statements are available, then you wouldn't come up with such claims...
First of all it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals/treaties, it signed with the EU27...
Just in case, you want to blame me now for being "anti Br ..." = half of my family are British living in England, of which half of them voted for Brexit...
Btw = the UK/and its electorate, is the only 3rd country world wide, which seems to have problems with accepting its 3rd country status and the 3rd country rules coming with it..
Apropos = high level negotiations = the EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries...and NOT a project, like a huge construction project or whatever, where "negotiations" about standards/price or other conditions are possible..
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Opposit to the UK, over here in the EU27 there was the documentary about those two years of "negotiations" shown...ohh, and = yess, I know, how "high level negotiations are going" 😎
The EUs team around Barnier were "negotiating" for more than two years, with teams of all sorts of lawyers etc, to get the first /May deal done = 700 pages, and then the UKs Parliament did its "no, no, no action", a second one was done while the transition period was ongoing, which also was extended three times in three months terms, then the Windsor agreement came on top of the NIP...= this c☆☆p is ongoing since EIGHT YEARS now, the EU27 have moved on and definetely other things to do then doing more "negotiations" with the UK.
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@lhmsc
Add on: about "xenophobia" and giving blood - ALL NGOs or others, where you can give blood (and believe me, blood is always needed urgently), are in duty to test the given blood upfront, to make sure, that NO ILLNESSES get passed on via blood transfusion or blood plasma.
Before I went to Brazil I needed to get certain vaccinations done, otherwise I wouldn't have been allowed to enter Brazil.
Is that xenophobia as well?
No, it's to protect people to catch/ or bring in unwanted illnesses.
In case you have chronicle deseases/illnesses, you're also not allowed to give blood, as well as protection for the people which will receive that blood.
I wouldn't want to get blood, which would save my life that minute, finding out later on, that I "received" an illness with that transfusion as well. I guess, you wouldn't like that either.
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@frogandspanner There are only two options available: full EU membership or EFTA.
The so called "soft Brexit = just access to the SM" never existed. While the Brexit negotiations went on, the British negotiators were demanding continiusly full access to the SM, without any of the coming duties with it (the four freedoms- free movement of goods, people, services, capital), the "member fee" plus acceptance of the European High Court. The British negotiators didn't understand, that the SM is the core/heart of the EU, therefor it's highly protected.
The "Swiss modell" isn't available anymore, stated by EU Commission, because off "too much hustle". The "Norwegian modell" isn't available either, as Norway stated since 2016 until today, that it'll veto the UK/GB as they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
EU Commission stated, that there is no "fast track" joining the EU for any country in the world, not even for the Ukraine, being at war.
Btw, the Republic of Ireland IS AN EU MEMBER.
Greetings from the EU
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Well, the EUs Commission installed a site,BEFORE the referendum extra for the Brits "all about EU- FAQs".... one just had to type "EU" and it would have popped up, as it was set on priority.
Unfortunately the Brits decided, to look for those needed Infos AFTER the referendum, as stated by Google "the most asked question AFTER the referendum was- what is the EU".
Btw, when your Gvt told you, that "nothing would change, when leaving the EU", what sense does it make then, to leave, when nothing is changing anyway .... just saying...
As stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators recently "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member".... and "club member benefits are for club members only".
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@ebikeoutdoors
No problem 😊
Yeah, you're right, I needed to get more informations about Brexit, because being married into an in England living English family and friends, living over here in the EU with my London born spouse, it was needed...
About "the EU", which are a union/organisation of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working/acting on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens....
The EU27 are not perfect, but is the best thing ever happening to the EUropean Continent.... peace (within the EU member states), and, being the biggest SM world wide, is always helpfull, as no country from the European Continent would survive on its own these days, as ALL of them Germany, France etc included are still "small" countries in the context of USA, China etc...
As you can see all over the world, countries are doing "blocks/cooperations" etc, to have more "soft power = trading", and looking at USA, China, India, the 54 African countries... no chance for us "tiny European countries on our own. But as "the EU27/450ish million citizens", and being the biggest trading block/SM world wide, it's a complete different issue 💪😊
On top of that it is a real advantage, to be able to decide, if one wants to live/work or whatever in any of the 27 EU member states without having to get permission/working visa etc...and the EU27 is working for its citizens, to protect them as much as possible with human rights, protection of labourship, environment, customers rights etc...
See it like that:
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong",
THAT are the EU27 member states 😊
Btw, the UK is loosing about £100 billion per year since Brexit | Bloomberg
Opposit what the Brexiteers/hardliner are trying to tell you.... the UK received for every pound given to the EU 10 pounds back, due to trading/SM within the EU, and the xxx-trade deals the EU has all over the world...
Some time ago Richard Tice stated "Brexit was about stripping down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style".
He was smiling when saying that...
I hope, I answered all of your questions.... otherwise.... ask 😊
Have a nice day with greetings from the EU27 😊
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@hermes6910
Well, here they come: crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, disappearing protection for labourship, environment, banking etc, food banks for hospital staff, sovereignty, which you always had 😅, blue passports printer in Poland, and sewage in all British waters....
GreetingsfromtheEU27😊...
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The decision was done under Merkel Gvt, directly after Fukushima happened...
Germany doesn't have a lack of electricity, but nat gas is needed as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc ...
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Btw, the most dangerous stuff of the nuclear waste needs about one hundred thousand years, before being not dangerous anymore.
Counting that timespan backwords, you're at the Neanderthal's...
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@dav3bassman NO.
This is not, how the EU27 are working...
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
The EU27 are a peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states and their 450ish million citizens with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
It's about €2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable...
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years..
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@xaverlustig3581
Correct, and my answer was and still is = Lower-Saxon language still is in use until today....by about 4ish million Germans living along the coast lines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea 😊...and the simularity still is VERY visible 😅
Lower-Saxon = English
he,se, mie, yi = he,she, me, you
dat/wat = that/what
de = the (no : der, die, das)
us = us
as = as
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
open = open
beer = beer
soster = sister
modder = mother "dd" = "th"
klock tein = ten o'clock
etc, etc... 😊
Greetings 🖐
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@WaterShowsProd
The Lower-Saxon language doesn't have noun genders either.
It also has just "de" = "the", the "e" in "de" gets pronounced like the "e"in "the".
Unfortunately high German always gets compared with English and the other Germanic languages, instead it should be compared with the Lower-Saxon language, as that is the root of todays English...
Lower-Saxon language still gets spoken by about 4ish million Germans living along the coast lines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
Lower-Saxon = English
he, se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat/wat = that/what
de = the "d" = "th"
us = us
as = as
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
open = open
beer = beer
soster = sister
modder = mother "dd" = "th"
klock tein = ten o'clock
etc, etc
Lower-Saxon gets pronounced the "German" way, but the "r" gets rrroled ...which might sound a bit "Scottish" 😁
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Well, the UK has to sort it on its own, because every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as the UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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Norway/EFTA stated various times since years, that it'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The UK has a deal with the EU = the TCA, would be nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals, it signed with the EU.... including the NIP/Windsor agreement...
"No deal will be as good or even better than being EU member ", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only", as stated by various EUs negotiators /spokesmen.
The UK is a 3rd country now and has to follow the existing 3rd country rules, which existed already all the time, when the UK was EU member.... and on which the UKs Gvt had been worked on, to make them as hard as possible, which it has to follow now by itself..... 🤣😎
Because, it's the EUs Council = the EUs member states Gvts and the democratic elected MEPs, which are the EUs rule/laws/decision makers in the EU... of which the UK was part of, when being a EU member state...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@StoutProper You know what's really annoying? We Germans are very well aware of our history and the great guilt associated with it. And our task is to make sure, that something terrible like that never happens again.
But, even if this vlog had been about the weather in Germany and not about German romanticism, the WWI and WWII topic would have started again after 5-10 comments at the latest.
Btw, the current issue of arms deliveries also seems to be problematic: too much, too little, to late, Germany is taking over again, or what ever, it doesn't matter, always exactly the wrong thing anyway. The usual "German bashing".
And the associated generalizing assumptions that "all" Germans are like that. Really pathetic.
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@StoutProper An interview with Prof. Clark
"Germany was not the villain"
January 04, 2014
Professor Clark, Der Spiegel "makes suspicious that your position is reminiscent of that of national conservative German historians". Are you a German friend?
Clark: I like Germany, I speak your language, I like visiting here. But I'm not pro-German in the sense of a doctrinaire attitude.
Then why do you doubt Germany's sole responsibility for the First World War?
Clark: Oh, certainly no one, not even the most die-hard followers of the Fischer school, speaks of sole guilt.
In the 1960s, the historian Fritz Fischer triggered a debate about war guilt, the "Fischer controversy". Der Spiegel again: "In the controversy, he blamed Germany alone."
Clark: In fact, the Fischer thesis has become established as a kind of orthodoxy, but usually not in a radical form, but as a light version. For my Anglophone colleagues, this goes something like this: Russians, French or British have done stupid things – but only the Germans wanted the war and only they brought it about.
In Germany, however, the radical variant usually applies. A ZDF editor, for example, accused you of "protecting Germany too much".
Clark: Not at all, I am clearly naming Germany's shared responsibility. But it's strange: Only in Germany are people accused of being too friendly to the country. This is only considered disreputable here.
In what way?
War enthusiasm in Berlin: "There was no German conspiracy to war"
Clark: I remember a discussion in Berlin on the subject of Prussia. After that, a very nice, educated, elderly lady approached me: "Mr. Clark, you seem to like us Germans." "Well," I replied, "why not?" She: "Because we're so terrible!" I don't think anything like this will happen to you in any other country in the world.
Your book is a bestseller in Germany. Maybe because it goes against the prevailing attitude and is provocative?
Clark: That would be possible. However, it has also produced offended slating in England, motto: "We know who is to blame for the First World War! What is this Clark saying?” I myself learned at school that the great powers only showed solidarity against Germany in 1914 because it was provocative.
And it wasn't like that?
Clark: The whole thing is much more complex. Russia, for example, allied itself with France because it feared that London might join forces with Berlin. And London did not seek proximity to St. Petersburg to intimidate Germany, but to secure Persia and India against Russia.
The conclusion of your book is: In 1914, the German Reich was not the villain it is often portrayed to be.
Clark: No, Germany did contribute to the outbreak of the war and is therefore partly to blame, but nothing more. There was no German conspiracy to war. Germany wanted to be a great power, so it behaved like a great power. German politics remained completely in step with the times.
But wasn't Germany reaching for world power?
Clark: It is correct that it proclaimed a German "world policy". The result was a few colonies in the Pacific and in Africa. Overall very poor. No comparison to the established world powers. I like to ask my students: What was the difference between the British and German fleets of the time? The British was always in use, but the German hardly ever. The same applies to the British and German armies.
I hope, you saw, what he wrote about Prof. Fischer´s view about Germany.
Greetings from Bremen 🙂
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@StoutProper Well, 40 years of "EU bashing" weren´t helpfull either. More education are needed, about how the EU works and what it is all about. Ok, it was an democratic decision, but, on the other hand, over here in Germany an such important decision could have made only with specific rules, like: 75 % of people´s majority would have been needed, with a two third pro or contra, and not just an "one voice" majority on something. When you look at the figures, there were more people against it, but because of the British voting system it ended as it did.
Ok, the EU isn´t perfect, but the best for Europe ever. Not to forget, the EUs Parliament is the second largest democratic, free and independant Parliament in the world, after India.
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@xanthias2001
Infact "critical thinking" gets taught at most EUs member states schools, from 5th grade on ☺️
It's included in lessons like history, art, languages etc = questioning, interpretations, etc..
Taking care/doing self reflection on your countries past comes on top of that.... remembering about it, to make sure, that it never happens again !!
A good start for the UKs people would be a self reflection about the "British Empire" = invading, occupying, so called colonialism, which went on for about 300ish years and cost 165 million peoples l☆☆☆☆
But reading/partly, British newspapers = analysing them, yellow press included...
Greetings from one of the EU member states 👋
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😂
Well, "de Welschen/the Welsh" the ancient Saxons were calling all those tribes which were living to the west of their territory (todays England), the meaning is "the other ones, the ones from abroad, the strangers".
Btw, the Romans were calling ALL tribes living to the right side of the river Rhine "Germanic", while those tribes which were living there didn't even call themselfes that.
Like you are calling yourself "Cymry", the "Germans" are calling themselfs "Deutsch"...
The term Deutsch origins from the term = Thiutisk = us people....and over the last 2.000ish years changed into tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch 😊
There you go...😅
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Errr...no.
They stated/analogous "that the UK could join the EU again UNDER THE KNOWN CONDITIONS" !!
THAT part of it always gets overseen by the UKs electorate..
And it would go like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades...(see Turkiye, status as a "candidate for EU membership" since 1999, since then on hold).
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy !!
Perks for former EU member states don't count in anymore, the UK is a 3rd country now, like all the other 3rd countries world wide...
EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is full EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Right now the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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@steverichmond7142 NO.
There won't be anything "waved" through, apart from it goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades...
The national debt has to be down to 55-60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently..it's about £ 1 trillion of debts, the UK has to get rid off...
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@Flipdonyk
Please read your own answer to @Finn Mrck, where you wrote, that France had to Import lots of electricity in 2022, which was exactly what I wrote.
Btw, why did Germany have a higher CO2 ermittation then normal? Because it had to boost it's electricity production to do the back up power for France.
About 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water).
Forgot to say, most of the nat gas in Germany is used by the industry as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
All over Germany electrolyseurs
(wind to power) are under construction.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line ", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany 😊
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@MichaelBrown-yj9kj
I'm sorry, but it wasn't official at all, as it was a think tank of 12 French-German guys only, which had a "brainstorming", but NOT official at all.
Infact this "report" had about 80ish pages, and on Page 41 there was half a sentence, where the UK was mentioned like "it might be ...for the UK"... that was it...
This subject "two, three, four tiered EU " pops up regular every five years or so, and disappears again silently...
It wasn't even in the media over here in the EU27, but a "huge hype" in the UK. I only knew about it, because of these yt channels talking about it.
Same goes for the German Minister (UK can call...) only read about it in these yt channels, had to search for it, it was a "one liner" only.. not even anywhere in the main news over here...
It doesn't mean anything, because there are 27 independent and souvereign
EU member states, and ALL of them have to agree.
Same goes for Guy Verhofstadt, when coming to the UK, joining the "re-joining marches".
Verhofstadt is a brilliant MEP, but when speaking at these marches, he is talking as a private person only, but NOT in the name of the EU27.
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@LeonLShaw As deGaulle and Adenauer, both same age, had been in WWI and WWII, knew what that means, the idea was to fund the "Montan union", which included that the French could "digg their coal pits" through over Germany and the Germans through over France. The logic behind that was, that coal and steel were the main materials to produce weapons/ armery, and when both country's France/ Germany use the same pits, crossing the border, it would calm down both Nations. Btw, the origin of EU came from Robert Schuman, (the father of Europe) and was already spoken about in the 1920s, (Schuman met various times with Friedrich Ebert,First President of the Weimar Republic), but before a treaty could be signed WWII started. The French/German war (France invaded Germany and lost) in 1870/1871 was the reason for Schuman's idea, as he experienced change of Nationality 3 times due to French/ German wars, being born in Luxembourg, the "French/Luxembourg, German border region".
So as you see, its a much earlier story/ history of EUs "birth".
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@FamilyTherapist
"The EU27" are a union/organisation of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
What Slovakias Gvt is doing recently is a national issue, but NOT the EUs Commission issue, apart from, when there are antidemocratic issues ongoing, like in Poland or Hungary, or corruption, like in Slowakia or Hungary, then "the EUs Commission can "punish/sanction" a country by not paying EUs subsidies, like it does with Poland and Hungary...
Look at Serbia, which is on the edge of antidemocratic, this is why its still NOT EU member...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Ten countries have the status as a "candidate for EU membership" already, some since years...
Joining the EU27 isn't to "negotiate", but simply "working off the list of criteria needed to be implemented properly" = which gets monitored by the EUs Commission, if not done properly, joining process stops instantly !!
It goes like this ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
This is, why part of the APPLYING criteria includes a national debt of max 55 % !!
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NO.
The Treaty of Rome in 1957 set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands = to work together towards integration and economic growth through trade ...it established a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital...
When will you Brits do some research about "the EU27", how it works and what it's for...before always over and over again posting "wrong facts"?!!
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site...
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan"...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@Leberteich
My post was about, that it was neither Thatcher nor any other Brit, who's "idea" it was, to "create" the EUs SM, as it was already part of the treaty of Rome in 1957...as "the EU27" are in a permanent developing "modus", therefor the treaty of Rome still is the core of todays EUs SM/EEA...
This part of the EUs developing "history/backround" lots of you Brits still don't seem to understand...
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe, born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site...
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
All of that, what the EU27 are today, exists already in the Schuman plan ☺️
While there are hundreds and thousands of EUropean citizens were/are involved of developing todays EU27...only the Brits are permanently claiming "what great influence they had on creating the EU27"... no other EUs member state are doing so, as it is a peace project for all of us 450ish million EU citizens...
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong. THAT are the EU27 ☺️
No EU member state is more important than the other ...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Errr... the UK is paying back the "overpayments", it received, when being a EU member, the EUs household is mostly based on a seven years term, therefor subsidies for certain projects etc, get paid upfront, on top of that, the pensions for the British MEPs and their backoffice staff and other, which had been working on behalf of the British people for 47 years being in the EU, have to be paid as well.... or do you think, that the EU citizens should pay for money and pensions, the UK received....
Btw, since Brexit the UK is loosing £100 billion per year, due to Brexit |Bloomberg
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@willyhill7509 Oh dear...
after 47 years EU membership, 7 years after the referendum and 3 years after Brexit happened, you Brits still don't seem to understand, how the EU works...
Again: the membership fee is for ALL the infrastructure (like Frontex, customs service etc and partly gets used for subsidies, trade deals (with professional EUs negotiators) all around the world with good conditions, because of being the worlds largest SM etc....
The gained benefits are much more than just counting "the membership fee" and how much money did we get back....
Frictionless trading within 27 EU member states the UK had access to, "delivery on demand", etc... would you count the "membership fee" being paid for your gym comparing with "how much money you're getting back? No? But you would count in the offered service etc....
In case you're planning on visiting Blackpool, please enjoy the nice restored Blackpool Tower, the whole seafront including the beach, the road along the beach and the coastal protection at Blackpool, as ALL of that was paid with EU subsidies (EUs infrastructure fund).
Ask Cornwall how it's going since Brexit... because Cornwall received €650 million over five years (EUs infrastructure fund), EVERY five years when the UK was EU member, because Cornwall was one of the five poorest regions in the EU (from which four were in the UK).
Since Brexit Cornwall received £ one million from Westminster...
ALL social projects for kids/youth etc had to be closed down, because ALL of those projects were paid by the EUs social fund... since Brexit no compensation for those urgently needed social projects...looks like, that the British Gvt doesn't bother about British kids...
Could go on like that, but to be honest, I can't be bothered anymore, to explain how the EU works...
Be happy with your crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters.... etc... it's going really good over there, innit? 🤣😎
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Die AfD will das gesamte Sozialsystem abschaffen, Krankenversicherung, Rentenversicherung, Arbeitslosengeldversicherung, Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, Sozialversicherung, Kindergeld, Jeder soll selber zusehen, wie er klarkommt, hat damals schon Meuthen von gesprochen...
Eine Partei, die 65 Millionen Tote und anschließend noch 40+ Jahre ein geteiltes Land, als "Vogelschiss in der Deutschen Geschichte " bezeichnet, ist definitiv eine rechtsradikale und faschistische Partei...als solches darf sie übrigens laut Verfassungsschutz und Gerichtsbeschluss auch bezeichnet werden.
Zieh doch nach Russland, Putler braucht Frischfleisch für die Front, dort gibt es auch den echten Staatsfunk =Russia Today= was Putler sagt, ansonsten 10 Jahre Knast 😎
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Nee, die AfD will alle Subventionen abschaffen...aber die Demokratie gleich mit, die hat ja jetzt schon Probleme damit, dass wie üblich in einer Demokratie, die Presse bei Parteitagen anwesend sein und berichten darf...
Eine Partei, die "65 Millionen Tote und anschließend noch 40+ Jahre "als "Vogelschiss in der Deutschen Geschichte" bezeichnet, Nazisprech verwendet, ist eine rechtsradikale und faschistische Partei...
Nee, der Angriffskrieg, den Putler aus imperialen Hunger in der Ukraine führt, hat unsere Energiepreise in die Höhe getrieben...
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@karlmarxx6228 Well, my answer was to your origin post, which was "but even more sad is anti German propaganda which strangely is strongest in Germany then anywhere else (showing WWII atrocities on TV 24/7 blaming today's generation for the sins of the past) which makes German people to be like sheep!"
Does that mean, that you have problems with all the other documentaries being shown in a loop, like about the Celtics, the Romans, the English and Scottish kings/ queens? I call that education, nothing else. Ok, sometimes it might be a bit (yawn the same again again again), but there is no duty to watch it. Not to forget, that all TV programs try to save money, therefor they put the same things up in intervalls.
Btw, as you might have noticed, ALL western countries are "sorting" their stock of military equipment, because of the recent war in Ukraine, not only the Germans. If you want to have a rage, talk to Putin about that subject !!
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@karlmarxx6228 Writing BS like that, at least write those names correct !! Btw, your post is, as usual, banned from the public, because of what you're writing, therefor only I can see it.
You are aware, that we're living in a democracy?!
IF you don't like it here, I would suggest, that you're moving to one of the "cozy" countries, like Russia, Iran, Afghanistan ....
I think, you really would enjoy it there LOL
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Add on...from my own family....which I was able to trace back to 1570 😊
First mentioned in that church book 1570 "A..., born ..., is a "Koether"... What? How dare ....
Until I checked the meaning of it "Köther, Köthner, Kötter, etc, please look up about that term at Wikipedia...
Another family register from about 220 years ago shows the following ".. gave birth to 8 children, of which 3 were born dead, another 3 boys always got the same first name/fathers name... which was quite confusing .....why?
Because they all died again and again inner their first five years after birth, ...but at those days it was the tradition, that the "oldest" boy gets the fathers first name... In the end only TWO of the eight survived the age of twenty, of which one of the two is my direct ancestor....
Now tell me, when you have a daily struggle to get food for your family...and making sure, that you fulfill the duties to your masters etc... you think, that those people had the "time" to think about "I identify myself as a German"?
I doubt...
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@adyy83 NO.
As I wrote in my first answer to you, were I explained all institutions of the EU...
The PM of the UK doesn't get elected by the Brits, please get informed before posting..
The German Chancelor doesn't get elected either, but the party, which states upfront, which MP will be the candidate for chancelorship...
Same goes for the EUs Parliament, btw, the candidates for Presidents (Parliament and Commission) get recommended by the EUs Council and get elected by the EUs Parliament/MEPs, which are working ON BEHALF of the EUs citizens.
The British voting system is FPTP, where a party /Tory's can win a 80 seat majority with 34% minority... if you call THAT democratic... well...
All EU member states and the EUs Parliament have the PR voting system, which is the most democratic voting system available...
Btw, next year elections are coming up in the EU...for a new Parliament etc 😊
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"They" didn't "run away", they couldn't be bothered anymore.
THAT makes a huge difference.
When a country/Afghanistan, gets support with infrastructure, money, schools, hospitals, drinking water, electricity etc, and still after 20 years of doing so, half of its population can't be bothered to support any of that, then it should be left alone.
This is exactly what "they" did.
Ahh, and now the "fantastic" Taliban are crying for ..... errr...
money, food, water, medicine, hospitals, .... bla, bla, bla ...
Sort your own sh*t.... 😎
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Well, every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
About "UKs access to EUs markets" =
the UK signed the TCA with the EU27, and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals properly, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago.
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals,it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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Good morning to Stoke,
well, it's the gvts job, to take care of the countries infrastructure/economy/citizens, as a democratic elected Gvt should work on behalf of the citizens of that country.... which hasn't been done in the UK since ages...
About the EU27 it goes like that:
the EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
The EUs Council = the EUs member states Gvts and the democratic elected MEPs, are the rule/law/decision makers in the EU.
The EUs Presidents (Council and Commission) get elected and confirmed by the EUs Council and the democratic elected MEPs.
Next year elections are coming up for the EUs Parliament and both EUs Presidents...ALL WITH PR...
About 90ish British MEPs were working on behalf of the British people...
Again, if a countries Gvt/UK, doesn't do its job properly, by not taking care of the countries infrastructure, supporting industry/economy/citizens, which would help to create proper jobs, therefor the people have money, to buy things, can afford to go into a pub/cinema or whatever... only that keeps towns/cities/villages alive...
Btw, Cornwall, one of the five poorest regions in the EU (from which four were in the UK), received € 650 million EU subsidies over a timespan of six years (ALL the time while the UK was EU member state), the EUs "infrastructure fund for poor regions).... since Brexit Cornwall received £one million from Westminster....
Some time ago Richard Tice stated "Brexit was about stripping down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style".
He was smiling when saying that.
Merry christmas with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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BS.
Rather look at your island, btw, Siemens Energy is building a submarine cable from Grain Island towards Wilhelmshaven/Germany, it'll provide green electricity for 1,5 million households in both directions 🥳
Over here we don't have heat or eat issues...
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
All EUs steel mills received € billions of subsidies, to build their own windmills/electrolyseurs and arc furnaces to produce green steel in the near future.
Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group space technologies Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035.
42 countries world wide with about ONE BILLION people are going green...it's on the way 😊
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@Sealed
Drittland- Regularien galten bereits vor dem Brexit und wurden übrigens von den Briten, als das UK noch EU Mitglied war, mit ausgearbeitet.
Es gehörte zur Brexit Kampagne dazu, den Briten zu vermitteln, dass sich trotz Brexit für die Briten nichts ändern wird, nur für all die anderen/EU Bürger.
Der typische "British exceptionlism".
Übrigens, die EU Kommission hatte extra für die Briten eine priorisierte Site ins Netz gestellt: "all about the EU - FAQs", man hätte lediglich "EU" eingeben müssen, und die Site wäre sofort da gewesen, aber .. .
Google vermeldete, dass die häufigste Frage auf Google NACH dem Referendum "was ist die EU" gewesen ist.
Tja, "sh£t happens " ....
Add on: die "Übergangsphase" ging über ZWEI JAHRE", aber: wenn man der Meinung ist (die Briten in diesem Fall), dass alles beim Alten bleibt ....
Das wäre übrigens so, als würde ich die Mitgliedschaft in meinem Fitness Studio kündigen, erwarte aber immer noch, dort wie ein Mitglied agieren zu können ...
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Genauuu, 16 Jahre lang den Ausbau regenativer Energien verpennt (seit 2017 wurde der Ausbau von Windrädern und Solarenergie - Deutschland war seinerzeit Weltmarktführer, danach ist die o.g. Industrie komplett nach China abgewandert, dank Altmeier, gedeckelt, daher auch die "Altmeier Delle " genannt), nicht zu sprechen von dem nicht stattgefunden Ausbau von Internet, Schiene (Güterverkehr, Personenverkehr), der geschrumpften Bundeswehr , etc, etc ...
Nur mal so.
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There is no "reverse" of Brexit, only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as the UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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Well, THAT was while the Brexit negotiations were ongoing, the EUs negotiators also stated, that these offers (whatever was on offer at that time) are ONLY on offer, while the UK is still EU member, but NOT anymore, when being a 3rd country.
Again, only available option: full EU membership under the known conditions...
Forgot to say: lets say, I/EU27 run a gym, and you/UK want to be desperately a member of my gym (again), BUT you're telling me, "that you really like those membership benefits, but not the coming duties with it, therefor you would like to change the membership conditions JUST FOR YOU, and then you could be a member again" 😳
Does THAT sound reasonable in any way to you? I doubt, VERY MUCH ...
One could say, "if one doesn't like the very well known conditions of the club, one wants (desperately) to join, then that one should stay out of that club/EU...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@walkingwithshadows Look, over here in the EU, the EU27 are very much "visible", daily, either in the news/TV/online or whatever, the EUs Parliament meetings are watchable, whenever important EU issues are "on the table", official statements from EU spokesmen or Presidents/Parliament or Commission are broadcasted etc, therefor us EU citizens are pretty well informed (if one is using those services), all EUs decisions/treaties are openly readable at the EUs Commission site... therefor it's NOT my "personal agenda", but simple facts, stated by various EU spokesmen or the needed criteria for joining the EU...
If you don't believe me, I strongly recommend to read Barniers book about the Brexit negotiations and consequences of Brexit for the UK.
Since the Brexit was done, the EUs negotiators/spokesmen have constantly repeated the same message over and over again, but obviously nobody wants/likes to hear the message in the UK.
You Brits have messed up, as simple as that, and even confirmed that sh£t at the elections again...
Forgot to say: May's deal had been in negotiations for two years and had about 700 pages, when it got signed, Barnier and his team were so happy, that this difficult issue got sorted in the end ... Barnier stated various times "that he is tired of explaining the Brits how the EU works".... and then it goes to the British Parliament and the "no, no, no sh£t show started", and all of that work was for the bin....
Apart from, that it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement all of the treaties it signed with the EU, before demanding another "whatever"...
The EUs spokesmen stated various times, that "the EU" also has other things to do, then just being busy doing endless negotiations with the UK".
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Well, it wasn't especially "Germany", but more like "various military experts from different EUropean member states armys", as they had been analysing the "recent performance of the Ukrainian army".
Those experts, some from the German army, but also from the Austrian and others, criticised, that the Ukrainian army didn't "use the newly trained Nato tactics properly" etc ... but it wasn't anything stated by any Gvts spokesmen, German Gvt included ...
Notice: this is the channel of Times Radio, not known as the most German friendly channel...😎
As you're German by name, please look up at
"Kritik an Organisation der Ukrainischen Armee | ZDF
Gruesse von der Waterkant 😊
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Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement, as being in the SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The so called "soft Brexit" was a fairy tale dream of the Brexiteers only, thinking, that leaving the EU would change everything for the Continental EUropeans only, not though for the Brits 😂
What you're calling the "extreme" Brexit = is the "real" Brexit = since Brexit the UK is a 3rd country = 3rd country rules apply !!
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
As stated by various EUs negotiators "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member state", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only".
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Good evening, Keith 😉
it's ok, don't worry "gg". Yeah, the German language is quite good for these "word constructs", and I can tell you: there are many more, lol.
It's great with ice skating, unfortunately we actually had only three days alltogether, were the ice was thick enough to go on. In fact they stated on the news yesterday, that up here in the north it's the warmest
January we ever had since 142 years, where they started to write down the weather statistics :-((
Good for the EU nat gas buffers, bad for nature.
Now everything is just flooded as usual (like in autumn the moorlands around Bremen get flooded every year until spring), as it's to warm for ice.
Btw, the "highest hill" over here in the north-west is 54,40 mtrs high "gg".
And a storm is just starting again, time for a nice cup of "East Frisian" tea 😉
Have a nice evening,
Insa
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Joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU isn't available for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27 .
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Oh dear, so Germany is guilty again? Not Netanjahu, Hamas, with its leaders sitting in their big villas in Doha, Putler, and all the other dictators and autocrats?
Have you ever been over here in the EU27, or even watched the video? Guess, you didn't, as you sound like...
Germany doesn't get "heavily armed", like all European armies/UKs included, had been stripping down its military equipment/troops by about 70 % after the wall came down...
The ammo would last for max one week, if getting attacked....
As Cicero stated already "vis pacem para bellum", or Walter Benjamin "who wants peace, has to be prepared for war".
Putler is threatening the whole EU27 and UK, as Putler wants to "create" a "great Russian Empire" again, within the borders before 1989, Finland included, as he stated, that "none of the ex USSR and Warscaw Pact countries have no right of existence, as it all belongs to Russia".
Forgot to say, Germany is spending about € 250 million per year to Palestinians/Gaza, the EU27 have spending about € 2,2 billion....and Germany is the biggest funder of the EU27...
Looks really "anti" Palestinians...😎
Just go ahead spouting hate from your armchair...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@remoanersrknts6736
Well, there is a bit of a difference, if a rich country/Germany has a "little dent of -0,3 %" = still 99,7% of its national economy are fine, or if a country, which isn't even back with its economy to "pre pandemic level", had a raise of some %, and has a yearly loss of £100 billion due to Brexit....😊
Btw, please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which will build a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt, and one in Spain or Portugal.
Etc, etc...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@alanalda9686
Military support to Ukraine:
rank 1: USA
rank 2: UK
rank 3: Germany
Humanitarian aid and money for Ukraine:
rank 1: USA
rank 2: Germany
Germany is doing the AWACS (sky spying) in cooperation with the US forces, is providing the Airbus A310 MedEvac, the " flying intense care hospital of the German army), is taking all the heavily injured Ukrainian soldiers and has taken about 1.1 million Ukrainian refugees (figures still raising) on top of the mentioned above....
MARS II, PZH 2000, Gepard systems, IRIS-T, Buffalos, COBRA system, Beavers have been sent with lots of ammo etc, Winter aid anyway, nothing to complain about ....
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@maggieliz1059
Well, looking at the 200ish comments here, I wonder, how many have been watching the video/Selensky's speech, as only the last sentence of the whole speech "the EU" is mentioned by saying, "that he signed the very first .... needed for joining the EU"
Btw, I'm not "touchy", instead you startet with harsh words rather then with facts.. sounds much like Brexiteers come across...
Sounds as well like Remainers "wanting to go back into the EU, knowing as much/NOT as Brexiteers about the EU27, by stating "where there is a will, there is a way, the EU just has to..." 🤣😎
This is why I posted some facts... again ALL available at the EUs Commission site...
The headline of this video was a real "clickbaite headline", I'm sorry to say...
Add on: Stoltenberg/Nato stated AFTER the G7/Nato meeting in Vilnius "that there is a huge difference between a safety guarantee done by the G7, or one done by Nato, as that safety guarantee would cause the Nato alliance case article 5"
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@maggieliz1059
So you obviously haven't listened to Stoltenbergs speech either? Because then you would have known, that the G7 agreed on supporting Ukraine/giving the "security guarantee", but not Nato...
Notice: the video was supposed to be about "Ukraine joining the EU".... most of the commenters above are pretending, that "it's virtually done", this is, why I stated, what I stated "a country being at war ....", not more, not less.
Wether you're a Brit or not, Brexit or not, I don't give a ... about it, being a EU citizen...
Calm down, Maggiepie, don't be so closed minded, and all the other bs, you were telling me...
Instead of answering about what Stoltenberg said, may be, you don't even know him?
Whatever, have a nice weekend, wherever you are...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@rocketsurgeon2135 Yes, I rembered the £180 million from about a year ago, when it was stated by EU officials. It really was a rough estimate of me, which, like you wrote, will be far above our imagination, I' m afraid. If I remember correct, they also stated about a loss sum (on UK side) about £800 million in the first few months after the Brexit had started. At least the EU hard borders get checked, which might be a tiny relief to you being worried about deseases etc, as the EU might be like a shield towards Britain, even though its the opposite direction. Must be terrifying living over there, I know it from our friend near Nottingham. All the best to you, greetings from Bremen 😉
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@fitzstv8506 NO.
It doesn't exist, and EU member states have no desire, to get that...infact, this French-German think tank had that "idea" for a future Ukraine only, depending how the war is turning out...the UK never was part of those thoughts...
The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU27, as 46 countries are members of the ECHR, of which 27 are EU member states, the ECHR was founded directly after WWII, to protect Human Rights, YOURS included.
The EU27 wants to change som e INTERNAL issues ONLY, like FOR CERTAIN ISSUES ONLY = the "one voice voting" = changing it to a "qualified majority = 73,91 %" for certain decision made within EU27 rules/laws/regulations to be confirmed...that's all.....
The EU27 are a ever evolving peace project, with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states and its 450ish million citizens.
It's up to every EU member state to leave the EU27 at any time on its own will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when...
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@MartialArtUK
Nope, they're speaking gaelic..
But high German is NOT Lower-Saxon language, so in Lower Saxon it still would be Welsch/Welsh...
Btw, you Brits are calling us how the Romans were calling us = German...and the English language gave Cymru the term "Wales" 🥳
The term "deutsch" origins from "Thiutisk = us people", and it evolved over the last 2.000ish years to = tuisk, tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch 😂
So you're calling the Dutch = deutsch...😁
Btw, nice vids at your channel...used to do Tae Kwon Do 😎
Cheers 🍻
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"The EU27 " are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan".
Btw, Robert Schuman/French Minister, and Friedrich Ebert/President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925. Hindenburg followed him as the President of the Weimar Republic, talks about a EUropean Union stopped, the "rest" is history..
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🥳
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@spider6660
Please look up for Cosco percentages at Marseille ports, LeHavre ports, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Genova, Pyreaus, Bilbao and many more ports around the world, where Cosco has a percentage of ports terminals.
Btw, it's a common issue for huge shipping companies like MSC, Maersk, DFDS, Hapag Lloyd etc to rent a percentage of a ports terminal.
24,9 % of the smallest terminals from four terminals at Hamburg ports has been rent out to Cosco.
Therefor Cosco doesn't have any say in ports politics, management, money, investments or access to critical infrastructure.
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@cocamilo22 Nat gas is also/ mostly used by the industry as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units, Aspirin, dairy products, cosmetics, car tyres, plastics etc. Only about 15% of Nat gas over here in Germany is used for heating. So yes, EU/ Germany have to protect their industries, so they don't collapse because of no nat gas. Once the industry doesn't exist anymore in the EU countries, others in the world would take over, and it would be difficuilt to get it back. But: we'll make it 😉
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@MrVikas07 Yeah, correct, but Germany is looking for "foreign skilled" people, not only IT, but engineers, doctors, craftsmen, technicians, etc in general, and there the German language is required.
Are you able to speak German since living in Germany?
Btw, not being pedantic, but the first computer was built by a German, Konrad Zuse, same with MP3, also created by Germans, but of course I know, that todays IT language is English 😉
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@lt8395
How about the crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, nearly 8 million people on the NHS waiting list, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of employee rights, etc, etc...
As I've got in England living English family and friends, I'm pretty well informed about the UKs recent status quo 😎
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 👋
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@Loneman_OG
The last "three lines" would have been better..
I can't agree with those "terms", you were using, as those terms were exactly those, which were used by the Austrian painter and his buddies...considering the losses of all those people, those terms shouldn't be used in any case = resist the beginnings...
As I'm living within the EU27 with my London born spouse, I can't see any issues about Starmer...he can't promise anything, which isn't up to the UK, but to the EU27 only..
The Tory's left the recent gvt a pile of shards..."construction site" everywhere, difficult where to start first...3rd country status, no dosh left, EU started an infringement procedure against the UK, etc, etc...and he is in power not even 100 days..
One could get the feeling, that the UKs electorate is expecting too much after 14 years of Tory's....
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@cyberfunk3793 Whatever you believe ..... LOL
Interesting, that you're such an expert, while Germany is running on this "power split" system smoothly since 1945.
Btw, it WAS possible in the 1930s, as there was a "gap/ missing part" in the Constitution of the Weimar Republic, which allowed the Chancelor, to "delete" the Parliament, this is, what H used, most of MPs got killed, H changed the laws to his and his "bad buddies" will, the rest is known :-(((
Btw, there is no war in Germany or in the EU and it's Allies/Nato, haven't you recognised?!
Forgot to say, as you mentioned "international confusions" LOL.
Don't you think, that on the "political stage" all involved people know the titles/functions of their International partners, oh, not to forget: the politicians of a country are talking to each other like the Chancelor with the President and Parliament.
All of them are in daily cooperation. Strange idea of politics you have ....
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The "Germans" = were called "Germanic " by the Romans only, which includes all Germanic tribes which were living to the right side of the river Rhine, while the ancient tribes which were living there didn't even call themselfes that.
The term "Deutsch" = "Thiutisk = us people" are living around todays Germany since thousands of years, Charlemagne started the HRI of German Nations, only because todays Germany didn't exist 1.200 years ago, it didn't "pop out of history", it's called "cultural backround"...which goes for most of us humans world wide 😊
Yes, and why is it like that?
Because todays federal states are the ancient territories of the biggest ancient Germanic tribes, like the ancient Saxons, Bavarians Franks Thuringians, Swabians, Prussians etc.
Btw, todays federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes.
The territories of the ancient Saxons are todays Federal States of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
Greetings 👋
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In case you're English, then about 30ish % of your DNA is Saxon DNA, all the other people coming over into todays England didn't leave any notable DNA in the English DNA.
About 10ish % of the English DNA is shared from ancient tribes from Danish/Jutes, Belgians, Dutch, Frisians, Normans.
The Lower-Saxon language is partly the root of todays English ...
Lower-Saxon = English
he,se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat/wat = that/ what
de = the "dd" = "th"
us = us
as = as
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
open = open
beer = beer
modder = mother
klock tein = ten o'clock ...etc, etc...
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@tcsam73 😊
Forgot to say, ALL NEW EU member states have to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Brexit has created huge damage to the British economy/citizens...
To cut off a country from the worlds largest SM right in front of your doorstep isn't the most clever idea...
Opposit to the USA, which is one country with its states, the EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
The EUs SM is there to benefit the 450ish million EU citizens, so every citizen can work, live, move, study, travel, trade as if living in ones own country...frictionless trading, tarrifs free...ALL of that the UK threw under the bus....
As you're US citizen = big country, you know, that it helps, when doing "trading deals etc".... same goes for the EU27 with its 450ish million citizens = soft power, like for trading deals, the UK is on its own now, not the best idea in todays times...
The EU27 are a peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states...
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@silvertbird1 Officialy there are the "Western Germanic" languages, like English, Dutch, Flamic, German and the "Eastern Germanic" languages, like Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, as ALL of them are based on the "Indogermanic language roots".
Not to forget, opposit to an Island, over here on the Continent the "language borders" are not nessesarily where a country border is, apart from each country's official language. Therefor in most (country border) regions the languages are "swapping" into the other country 😉
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@zotter2542 As I wrote, hydrogen can and will be used AS battery storage and will replace coal, oil and NAT GAS. Nat gas is also used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units, Aspirin, cosmetics, dairy products etc., etc.
You are aware, that until now most energies like oil aren't very efficient? To proceed fuel/petrol/ diesel from oil you also need a hell of a lot of electricity and the motors, running on those proceeded fuels, aren' t so effective either. By that, all of us shouldn't use any of that, which doesn't make sence really. Interesting, that you know better than all mentioned researchers/countries. May be us humans develope other energy resources in the future, but at this moment green hydrogen is the goal. And the researchers are working on other forms of energy storages as well, its not the end of it.
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The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units for dialysis, Aspirin, dairy products, tires etc, etc.
Start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group space technologies Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035.
ALL EUropean steel mills received € billions of subsidies, to build their own windmills/electrolyseurs and arc furnaces to produce green steel in the near future.
2022 the worlds first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany.
Daimler trucks and the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered trucks/vehicles, which are already in use since years.
The EU27, EFTA, USA and 10 other countries world wide with about ONE BILLION people are going green. 😁
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@leonnunhofer3453
Man, so many ifs and whens ...
You don't know whats been sortet/ spoken at meetings, or have you been part of it?
Btw, only 24,9 % of the SMALLEST terminal at Hamburg Ports have been " leased" to COSCO, therefor no say about management, politics, infrastructure, money.
It's a common issue at all huge ports to lease/ rent out parts of terminals to huge shipping companies like MSC, Maersk, DFDS, HapagLloyd etc.
Btw, most of EU ports, like Rotterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Valencia, Pyreaus, Marseille etc have done the same ...
Greetings from the Waterkant
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@henryblunt8503
The Treaty of Rome "set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
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FOM for people, goods, services and capital are not divisable and are part/perks of EU and EFTA membership only, not though available for 3rd countries !!
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
On top of that = all 4 EFTA members together make up about 16ish million people living there, while there are about 67ish million people are living in the UK, that would outbalance the EFTA system.
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@onepuchok5789
Err...NO, hasn't been "mentioned by German gvt"...it's not the "biggest issue"...
Wolfspeed, Infenion, TSMC, Intel, Bosch, Northvolt, Microsoft, Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Ford, etc, etc are building gigafactories in Germany...
Rather look at China, it's going really good over there with those millions of empty half done sky scrapers, eh? 😂
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
42 countries with about ONE BILLION people are going green...
Bye.
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@martina4280 Nein.
Zur "minderqualifizierten Aussage" = bezog sich auf Ihre Frage "möchten Sie leben wie in Indien"... 😅
Allgemein zum Thema "nicht genug Sonne/Wind", deshalb je nach Lage Nord/Süd keine Windräder/PV = DAS macht noch weniger Sinn... Warum?
Weil der Begriff "Solarenergie" eben NICHT bedeutet, dass eine PV nur bei Sonne funktioniert, sondern auch an bedeckten Tagen, dasselbe gilt für Windenergie, es braucht eben nicht immer Windstärke 8, um Strom mit Wind zu erzeugen.
Wenn zB überall kleine Solarpatches angebracht würden (Straßenbeleuchtung, Parkautomaten, etc), so würde sich allein das schon rentieren...
Im Norden zB kann man Scheunendächer hervorragend mit Solarpaneelen "vollpflastern", trotz des öfter mal verhangenen Himmels, besser als nichts.
Grüße von der Waterkant 😊
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@Gerd2023 Na super 😒
Ich hoffe doch, dass Ihr Arbeitsplatz erhalten bleibt ?!
Was ganz viele vergessen zu haben scheinen, ist, dass der Norden zu Zeiten von Altmeier, ca 150.000 Arbeitsplätze verloren hat, Windkraftanlagenbauer/Zulieferer, überall hier entlang der Küste gab es unendlich viele Firmen, die sind nach der Deckelung für erneuerbare alle eingegangen wie die Primeln, dabei war Deutschland zu der Zeit Weltmarktführer, auch was die Technologie betrifft. China hat übernommen und baut jetzt 80% aller Windkraftanlagen Weltweit..
Dumm gelaufen... aber. man sieht hier inzwischen wieder überall entlang der Autobahnen Rotorblätter von Windkraftanlagen liegen....das lässt hoffen... und Firmen fangen auch wieder an, sie hier herzustellen.
Alles Gute mit dem Arbeitsplatz 👍
Grüße von der Waterkant 😊
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@Sad_Bumper_Sticker
Yeahhh, sounds good, apart from, that it's the men, which are refusing to do so since ages... weird, innit ....trying to keep in power at all price, doing their wars, even trying to keep women away from school/education/public live etc...funny though, as half of the worlds population is female... and at most countries women are still oppressed by men....and there is one women talking about the terrible war in her country.... and oops, all men here are demanding equal rights for men and women....ahhh, like at home, cleaning the house/toilets/babies nappies/taking care of the old parents.... yeahhh right.... equal it goes.... Not....
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The Romans were calling ALL tribes living to the right side of the river Rhine "Germanic", while those tribes which were living there didn't even call themselves that, instead they were calling themselves "Thiutisk = us people ", and then evolved over the last 2.000ish years to = tuisk, tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch 😂
Btw, the today English term "window" is Lower-Saxon language and the meaning is "wind eye".
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@PanProper Soll ich jetzt auf Deutsch antworten oder was, a raczej po Polsku, drogi sąsiedzie 🤣
Ok, back to English. I answered to somebody, who stated that ALL EU countries agreed to send tanks, and that was simply not correct.
And of course they talk about this subject at the EU Parliament, it bothers ALL of us, no??!!
And yes, it is a NATO decision in the end.
Btw, the German army is in Poland recently to install various Patriot air defense systems along your east border 🙂
Have a nice day, it will be sortet ...
Pozdrowienia z Niemiec dla Polski
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@ionnanskilliorus6877
Unfortunately I have to disagree.
In several of the speeches he gave, Putin spoke of the fact that he was a very great admirer of Peter the Great and that Peter the Great waged twenty years of war in order to build up the Great Russian Empire.
Putin wants "his" USSR back, which is why he has said several times that countries like Ukraine, Finland, Moldova, etc. have no right to exist.
All of this has nothing to do with the economic policy (in which the USA was also involved, by the way) of the EU/Germany. Oh, if only it were that easy...
Btw, that would also mean that Germany would be halved again (was not USSR, but belonged to the Eastern Bloc), not a really comforting thought either.
No matter what happens with the tank deliveries, the problem actually lies in the fact that up to now all types of weapons have always been delivered at the same time as a group, no matter from which nato member country, and now Germany would be the "sole supplier", and the federal government is actually responsible for this fact Big worries.
I'm sure there will be a solution.
Greetings to NI from Germany 🙂
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@ionnanskilliorus6877
Germany is/ was forwarding nat gas to the Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Tchechia and some other countries as well.
Those countries had to fill up their nat gas buffers before winter first.
Since September no Russian nat gas imports to the EU27 anymore apart from Hungary.
Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27.
The Continental EU is interconnected with electricity, nat gas and oil supply.
Those countries which don't have access to any sea side, get their energy delivered by Germany passing it on to them.
This is, what its about the EU27.
Just stop blaming Germany for everything, even without knowing the facts.
Btw, in case, you're receiving electricity from France at the moment, it's partly from Germany, as Germany is doing the back up power for France since France had to shut down half of its nuclear power plants because of low water levels in the rivers due to the recent heat wave and urgently needed maintenance ( still ongoing.
Just saying ...
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@michaelkrzak5414 😉
To be honest I don't know if Germany and the Germans want to be " the leader" of Europe.
Strong words for German ears.
I know, that Germany has a strong economy, therefor it's the worlds second largest donor for humanitarian aid etc., and yes, it might sound "weak", but the country has done a turn of 360 ° since this war has started, as since 1945 no German armery was sent directly into a war zone.
You can't get out " your bones/ mind", what has been lived for decades (never again, no war starts from us again), yes, I know the Ukraine needs help !!, but we're learning 😉
All the best to you and
slava Ukraine !!
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@smoosview6103
Well, no British politician can promise anything, which isn't up to the UK, but is up to the EU27 only, as it goes like that ONLY =
every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
Instead the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
When he was rushing through the EU27 recently, to visit his collegues in various EUs member states, ALL of them were telling him the same "implement the deals properly"...
Right now there isn't even a big appetite within the EU27 to have the UK back in their club...
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@smoosview6103
I'm German, and no, the German naturalization doesn't work like that.
Kids have to have German parents born in Germany, only then one is German !!
All the others have to apply for German citizenship at the age of 18, until then kids have dual nationality..since a few years kids born in Germany can keep dual nationality, if wanted.
The EU27 aren't "imploding" 😂
Again, instead the EU27 signed the EU-Mercosur FTA recently and is the worlds biggest FT zone now 😂
Add on = January this year the "passporting" went back into the EU27, June 2025 the "Euroclearing" will be back in the EU27, then Brexit is complete, as the transition period of FOM for capital ends June 2025.
This is a huge loss for the City of London, as those financial services are making up about one third of worlds market for clearing services = a value of £ 260 trillion
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@nickbarton3191
Yes, I know about that and corrected it already 😊
About "rebuilding" Ukraine...it won't be done "properly", as long as Russia is "bombing it to dust again"... everything done recently is provisorical, to give a bit of shelter and keep the urgently needed infrastructure running /electricity/heating/water supply/canalisation...
You make it sound, as if the EUropean companies are already "sitting on the fences like vultures", waiting to do "corpse scargenving" on the "left overs" from Ukraine ...
Well, as the war unfortunately and sadly is still ongoing, who knows, how long it'll take... before "rebuilding" a by war destroyed country, first of all EVERY centimeter has to be checked for "dud shots and landmines",... that alone will take its time...
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@stewie7338
As you stated yourself, that "you're a Brexiteer...", just be happy on your Island with the crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, etc....
Btw, the UK is loosing £100 billion per year since Brexit | Bloomberg
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@mikethompson3305
I watched the video as well 😎
As Ukraine isn't even a NATO member, but NATO is supporting Ukraine with military equipment/money, but NOT with troops, as that would cause WW III, it's clear, that it's NOT as easy to support Ukraine as if supporting it including troops.
About UK, like Italy, Germany and some other EU/NATO member states, all have nukes, all of them under different conditions (like UK)...
ALL European (EU27 and UK) and NATO member states have been stripping down their national military equipment/troops by about 70 % over the last 30ish years AFTER the wall came down, as ALL of those countries "thought", peace will be there from now on...
But, it still goes "the one who wants peace, has to be prepared for war" = Walter Benjamin
"Si vis pacem para bellum" = Cicero
We all should get our sh... together....asap
Apart from, that there are 31 NATO member states, of which one is USA...ok, still the biggest funder...but, NATO doesn't necessarily have to fall apart, in case USA would leave....aaand, USA might want to have some partners as well 😎
Greetings 🖐
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Errr....NO.
Since 2023 Germany is the worlds third largest economy...
While the UK dropped from worlds fifth largest economy to sixth....
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
The EU27/Germany are in transition going green...the EUs "green deal" has a value of € ONE TRILLION for going green, to support the EUs member states and their economies/industries by going green.
From the 14 due to the war needed reactivated coal power plants seven have been shut down again this week, because Germany's permanently ongoing further expansion of renewables (wind, solar, water) has raised and therefor those temporarily reactivated coal power plants could be shut down again 😊
63,6 % Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables...figures still raising..In 2021 it were 41% only...
Please look up for Wolfspeed, Infenion, TSMC, Intel, Bosch, Northvolt, VW, Ford, Microsoft...etc, etc.. all these international companies are building gigafactories all over Germany, to produce future technologies 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@johnfisher697 NO.
The Treaty of Rome in 1957 = set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to WORK TOGETHER TOWARDS INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH TRADE, TO ESTABLISH A COMMON MARKET BASED ON THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS, PEOPLE, SERVICES AND CAPITAL.
That was a snippet of the Treaty of Rome/1957.
The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 installed the = Copenhagen Criteria...not comparable with the joining criteria in 1973 !!
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@herrwolf5184
Look, Ukraine/Donbass has been occupied by Russia, same as Moldova Georgia and some other ex USSR states, always with the "arguments", that the there living Russians are "under threat".
Cheap excuse !!
Russia invaded various countries in the past, like Afghanistan, Chechnya etc, recently it has its boots on 20 African countries as well with the "support" of Wagner group...Just read up about it at proper news channels, not GB news etc, might enlighten you !!
Btw, in Russia one gets imprisoned for ten years for "holding up a white sheet of paper in public", Russia Today is the official Broadcasting service in Russia = what Putler says, if not = ten years of prison...
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@Kjetilstorm Well, Putin stated often enough that he wants to get "great imperial Russia" back, including Finland and all ex territories of the ex Soviet Union. He also stated, that none of these mentioned above countries have the right of existence. Him being a fan of Tsar Peter the Great, Putin also stated, that Tsar Peter was at war for 20 years to make up the "Great Russian Imperium" .
That's why Western countries are supporting Ukraine. For a free and democratic world/ Europe. This is why it's everyone elses problem, simple as that.
Little hint: just look around in the world, what this war has caused: food problems, energy problems etc, only by that all of us are involved!
Forgot to say: as China is watching, and probably other states with dictatorships, it has to made very clear to these countries, that an invading war is going nowhere. If Nato wouldn't support Ukraine, it could be seen as a "new model of politics", "country" fancies other country = invading war as a "solution".
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The EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The Treaty of Rome set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS, PEOPLE, SERVICES AND CAPITAL.
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@davidrenton Oh dear...
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received €1,3 billion EU subsidies each to build their own electrolyseurs/windmills and arc furnaces, to produce green steel in the near future.
In 2022 the World wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany
Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group/OHB Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal
Microsoft will build a data center for AI in North Rhine Westphalia until 2026
Etc, etc...
Btw, "those things the UK solved 20 years ago" = are you talking about the UK is finally switching its analogue telephone/landline connections to high speed glass fiber connections as my British family and friends were telling me?!!
Greetings from the EU27/Germany 🖐
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Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group/OHB Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035.
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips)at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal.
Microsoft will build a data center for AI in North Rhine Westphalia until 2026.
In 2022 the worlds first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received €1,3 billion EU subsidies each, to build their own electrolyseurs/windmills and arc furnaces, to produce green steel in the near future.
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts.
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
Greetings from the EU27/Germany 🖐
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@davidrenton
As written before, not electricity is needed, but a gas (in this case = green hydrogen) as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units for dialysis, Aspirin, dairy products, tires, all sorts of plastic, cosmetic products, etc...THAT can't be produced with electricity only...
About "hydrogen doesn't have a future"... errr...yess, it does... and one would think, if about 45 countries world wide with about ONE BILLION people living there, are "going green" by using hydrogen in the near future, that they're knowing, what they're doing...
The re-opening of some of Germany's coal power plants will be used only temporarily...as written before = the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Of course Germany still has six research reactors.....or did you think, that that country, which discovered/invented nuclear fission (Hahn/Meitner) would give up on it completely ? 😎
Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27...
Forgot to say, 2022 Germany was doing the back up power for France, as France had to shut down half of its nuclear power plants because of low water levels in the rivers due to the recent heat wave (2022) and urgently needed maintenance. Most of that back up power got delivered by renewables (wind, solar, water) from Germany 😊
In case you're coming up with more "facts", to prove, how much "better" the UK is doing....the London laundromat is by far that location, where dirty Russian money gets "cleaned" again...
Ahhh, yess, aaand = the EU27 are collapsing again since decades at any minute 🙄 😂
And again, the British obsession about the EU27, France and Germany is quite amusing... considering, that UK left the EU27 😂😎
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
....still .fighting WW II....and afterwords.... something to relax = cat videos...oh dear, so sad, never mind 😂😎
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@davidrenton 🙄
You were blaming Germany having started twice a ww... which isn't correct !!
I strongly recommend you to read the book =
"How Europe went into WWI" by Sir Christopher Clark
What about the "British Empire"? no answer on that?!!
It was expected ...
Btw, "UK had an agreement with Belgium"...and Russia had one with Serbia, which started the war, and Germany had one with Austria....etc, etc...
And if the British Empire hadn't been doing, what it did 100 years ago = "installing artificial borders without taking care of the already existing tribal/territorial borders" in todays Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, etc, etc...we wouldn't have all those "issues" ongoing there until these days.. !!
Guess what, most refugees coming over here into the EU27, are coming from exactly those areas...
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@davidrenton
Here some history lesson for you =
Austro-Hungarian Empire (look at a map), did an ultimatum to Serbia, if not...
What was it about? Austro-Hungarian authorities wanted to send their own police to investigate the assasination of its crown prince, Serbia refused.
The German Kaiser wrote two letters to the Austrian Kaiser, in the first one he confirmed the status quo as an allie of Austria...
Serbia gave in, therefor the German Kaiser wrote a second letter to the Austrian Kaiser, stating, that a war is obsolete now, as Serbia had given in...
Austro-Hungarian started the invasion of Serbia anyway, Russia stepped in being an allie of Serbia, etc, etc ..
France still was annoyed, that it lost the French-German war 1870-1871 = France invaded Germany and lost...
It's not as simple as one might think...
Again = read the book = "the Sleepwalkers, how Europe went into WWI" by Sir Christopher Clark
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@pollywuensch
Ahh, ein AfDler...die AfD will übrigens die Sozialsysteme abschaffen, keine Krankenversicherung, Arbeitslosenversicherung, Rentenversicherung, Arbeitslosengeldversicherung , Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, Sozialversicherung, Kindergeld mehr, jeder soll selber zusehen, wie er klarkommt, hat damals schon Meuthen erklärt...
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@simpdefendmlady6579 Well, just watch reports from Ukraine and what happened in the by Russian Army occupied areas, or actually in all war areas. Women are suffering the most, it's also called the "second front", just get informed about that, then you might get an idea!
Btw, on top of that: when the Titanic sunk, guess what happened? Yes, the men, because of having more muscle power, pushed the women and children to the sides and jumped on to the rescue boats instead. Since then there is the order: women and children first. The other one is the since centuries happening systematic "mass rapings" of women, called the "second front".
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@StephenTownsley OK.
To most of what you wrote, I agree, not though "that Thatcher created the EUs SM", because it goes like that ONLY =
Please look up about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Please look up about Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU, the "creator of the Schuman plan"...
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the Schuman plan, and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The Treaty of Rome "set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a COMMON MARKET based on the FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS, PEOPLE, SERVICES, CAPITAL".
Thatcher as well as Churchill jumped on an already existing train...
Robert Schuman/French Minister/PM, and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925. Hindenburg followed him as the President of the Weimar Republic, talks about a EUropean Union stopped, the rest is history...
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@stuartgraca
Germany was forwarding nat gas to the Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Tchechia and some other countries as well.
At beginning of the war Germany's Russian nat gas imports were about 56% of its national consumption, in August 10%, since September none.
All mentioned before countries had to fill up their nat gas buffers before winter.
Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to Germany.
In Germany most of the nat gas is used for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units like for dialysis or Aspirin, dairy products etc.
The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have this project called
" green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and the Gvts.
Hydrogen can also be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills or others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks as well as the Faun Group,
those trucks/ vehicles are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
All along the coast lines electrolyseurs are under construction (wind to power).
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can also be used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Btw, 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water). About 30.000 windmills (including offshore) are doing their work, figures still raising.
France had to shut down half of its nuclear power plants because of low water levels due to the recent heat wave and urgently needed maintenance (still ongoing). About 80% of France's electricity gets produced by nuclear power and the French are heating with electricity. Germany is doing the power back up.
Therefor Germany had to run its nat gas power plants on full power to produce all the extra needed electricity to deliver six times more electricity to France as normally.
The restart of the coal power plants will only be used temporarily as power back up to avoid black outs and supporting the net stability for this winter.
Greetings from Germany
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@stuartgraca It's "the market", as more people want the same, as higher the prices go up (demand/price) like with wood: since the big fires in Canada and Australia, and the Chinese, which brought up a law, forbidding to cut trees for the next 99 years (or something like that), they're buying "the global wood market empty". As in these days everything is done by "global bidding", for example the Chinese are mostly bidding the highest price, to make sure, that they get the wood (urgently needed on the Chinese construction market).
The average construction/ building companies can't hold up to that.
About the fossil fuels, we should talk to Putin, NOT.
The prices for all fossil fuels will go up anyway, as going green is highly on demand. This terrible war is just forcing/speeding up the progress of the EU going green.
Greetings from Germany
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@smokeango The amount of Teslas or other EVs are far less then the amounts of smart phones (might get changed every two years due to contracts), e-scooter, notebooks, digital cameras etc, it's the sum of all which makes it up.
Btw, green hydrogen is already in use for vehicles/trucks, as hydrogen powered vehicles driving distance is about the same as with fuel powered vehicles/ trucks.
Since some months the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany as well.
Some brands/ manufacturers of e- cars are using also the "breaking energy", whenever the car is breaking, the energy is feeding/ charging the battery.
The Dutch are developing an e-car, where the tyres (like a dynam on a bike) are "feeding/ re-charging" the battery while driving and the surface of that e- car is done with solar panels.
All along the coast lines electrolyseurs ( wind to power) are under construction .....
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels ( oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Germany has green hydrogen cooperations with 10 countries world wide as well as the EU27.
The EU27s "going green" is on the way, and technology is progressing all the time 😉
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@Leberteich 🙄
"The EU " don't believe they won, as "the EU27" are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries...
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when..
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Right now the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as the UK still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27..
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27..
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment. .
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NO.
Not the greens closed down nuclear power in Germany, but the Merkel gvt did that straight after Fukushima the decision was done, 11 nuclear power plants were already closed down by the Merkel gvt, the last three were set for Dec 2022, and were stretched to run until end of March 2023...by the greens....as those three left over nuclear power plants only received the basic maintenance needed, they didn´t get those full maintenance, when running for longer, as the provider running them, knew, that they will be closed down... therefor the max timespan to extand were three months only...
But it didn´t matter anyway, as Germany doesn´t have electricity problems, those 3 last nuclear power plants were producing about 6 % of Germany´s electricity only anyway. which had been compensated already more than enough with renewables
Germany still has six research reactors, as that country, where nuclear power/fission has been discovered/developed by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn... it just doesn´t get used to produce electricity anymore.
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@kukulroukul4698
Please look up for these ports, where Cosco has a percentage at ports terminals:
Rotterdam, Antwerp, Zeebrugge, LeHavre, Valencia, Pyreaus, Bilbao, Marseille, Genova, etc, etc ...
It's a common issue for huge shipping companies like MSC, Maersk, DFDS, Hapag Lloyd etc to rent a percentage of a ports terminal.
Of course the difference here is, that Cosco is owed by China, this is why Germany only gave 24.9 % of the smallest terminals from four terminals at Hamburg ports.
Oh, forgot to ask, how much cheap Chinese stuff are you buying regular or using?
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@farmaccount1653 So far, so good 😉
Apart from that, DW is a news program reporting about recent national/ international subjects/ stories. And it takes recent "atmospheres", like with the UK, where this subject "monarchy/ yes/ no/ costs of that etc" IS A RECENT SUBJECT, wether you like it or not.
Its even a subject in other countries to go fully republic, like Australia, Bermudas, Antigua and lots of others.
About long history: Germany also used to have monarchy, 1000 years as the "Holy Roman Imperium of German Nation, and after Napoleon the Prussians took over, until the German's got rid of it in 1918. So that was nearly 1200 years of monarchy in Germany. So what?! Nothing is fixed for ever.
Most important is a stabil democracy, including free press/ speech and human rights
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@francisjbrennan3358 And?
This year has been a raise by about 300% more refugees coming into the EU, when about 120 boats are arriving on one day, like recently at Lampedusa, it always takes a while, until it's "sorted".
You rather make sure, that your country and its infrastructure doesn't "crumble" completely, like those raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, etc...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@gregjones-x8c 🙄
"...there are EU red tape and mega regulations"
Since Brexit the UK is a 3rd country =3rd country rules apply 😅
Those 3rd country rules existed already when the UK was EU member state, and UKs gvt was pretty busy, to tighten those 3rd country rules as much as possible 😂
The EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started already in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU and the creator of the "Schuman plan".
Robert Schuman/French Minister, and Friedrich Ebert/President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925...after that the talks about a "EUropean Union" stopped unfortunately..
Treaty of Rome set up = "the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital"
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27
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@gwendolinkirkegaard1812
Germany has a Parliament Army, written in the German Constitution, everything to do with soldiers, military/ armery has to be confirmed by the following institutions: the Federal Defense Commitee, the Parliament, the Upper House (of Parliament, the Federal President, the Federal Chancelor.
All of this was installed after 1945, so never again just one Gvt person can start military action/ war.
It's also written in the German Constitution, that no armery gets sent into war areas, including German armery which had been sold to other countries, that also has to be confirmed by the same institutions as written before.
Therefor it was a huge concern and big step for Germany and the German's.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@neilwhite3421
The British Empire had cost 165 million peoples lifes due to invading, occupation, so called colonialism...
Btw, we're very thankfull over here, that the Allies have freed the European Continent from the Nazi terror, but Britain had big support by the Polish, Canadians, Russians, Americans etc...
What about Edward VIII and his (later) American wife, as both of them were big fans of H, same goes for Mosley and his brown shirts...
If Edward VIII didn't have to step down because of his American wife, the UK would have had a Nazi King, imagine the bad image for the UK, after the war finished...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@ecaeas4439 Well, it's part of the needed procedure, when applying for EU membership. Obviesly it's lots of issues, like human rights, environmental protection (no sewage in rivers etc) free and independent press and justice (recent police law, where people can get imprisoned for 48 hours without seeing a lawyer or judge, free speech and the right to demonstrate without being imprisoned up to ten years), protection of labourship, etc. All those "rights/things" which your Gvt had stripped down since Brexit was done aren't conform with the Copenhagen Criterias, they could only do these things since the UK/GB left the EU.
As you're using the Inet like all of us here, just look up about the Copenhagen Criterias.
But that's not the only thing which has to be done, when a country applies for EU membership, more info about that subject you'll find on the EUs Commission site, they also have a "FAQs" there for quickly needed info.
One thing is for shure, it's not a "quick version" for the UK/GB, applying for EU membership and don't forget, any of the EU27 member states can veto.
Greetings from the EU
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He can't promise anything, which isn't even available, as being in the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership...
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
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@Alex-pj8nz Yup, on top of Antwerp its 15 other ports in the EU, like Rotterdam, Bilbao, LeHavre, Valencia, Pyreaus etc. Btw, its a common issue, that huge shipping companies buy themselfs partly a port terminal, like MSC, Maersk, DFDS.
And in Hamburg ports its only the smallest terminal with 24.9 %, therefor no say at the politics/ management/ influence at the Hamburg ports.
The four largest ports of EU are: Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremerhaven. They are making sure, that EU trade is working smooth.
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@jasbindersingh2441 Oh dear 🤣
First of all: Russia is NO Euro country, as the "Euro" is a currency, Russia has Ruble.
In case you're talking about Russia being a "European country on the European Continent", NO, it's not (please look at a map).
Talking about "freedom/liberty" in "anglosphere countries", well assuming the way it's going "over there" with how elections get done "one has to get registered every time for being allowed to vote", how poor and undemocratic is that.
All of us over here in the EUs member states get our "poll papers" automaticly send by post, if wished also to vote via letter, so you don't have to show up at the day of elections at the poll stations, all of that goes automaticly, nobody has to "apply for that", as elections are your "citizens rights", nothing one should have to "apply for every time".
When looking at the UK/GB or the USA, where people can't elect because they can't get registered because of what ever reason, but still calling that "democratic" plus on top the FPTP system, wow, be happy with this crappy, undemocratic system and obey your masters, the unelected Lords and millionaires running your country into the ground for their own benefits, while at the same time there are more foodbanks in the UK now as McDonalds.
Forgot to say, as you wrote "apart from passports which are there for a specific purpose", same goes for ID cards, only difference is, they are much smaller, quite handsome like the "little brother" of the passport. Are you claiming now that "passports are cutting off your liberty"?
Happy Easter 😊
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@greatsarmatae Nope, Poland gets sanctioned by EU because of turning away from democracy (free and independent press and justice) as written before. Just look up that subject at the EUs Commission site, it's all there ! Btw, the EU has declared Hungary to be a "none fully democracy" anymore, therefor Hungary also is on the EUs sanctions list and doesn't receive all of its EU subsidies. Btw, "EU bureaucracy" LOL, just have a look at Brexit Britain, they are "sinking in" into bureaucracy since leaving the EU, as its less bureaucracy being a member.
Forgot to say, no country is forced or in duty to be an EU member, but certain rules are coming along with the EUs membership, like in every "club". Being a member, the countries agree to the membership rules.
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@sirrathersplendid4825
Floodings, droughts, hurricanes, loss of millions of insects/birds/wildlife per year, heavy rain for weeks, mudd slidings at the mountains, melting glaciers, higher sea water levels...etc, etc extreme high temperatures /up to 50°C..., yeahh, all sounds good to me ...NOT...
You're using the Inet here, like all of us = leaving all sorts of info about you 😂
Probably buying stuff online, as it's so nice and easy...using online banking, as it's so nice and easy, buying really cheap clothes, using temu or other...as it's all so nice...
Btw= Airbus Bremen is developing hydrogen powered airplanes in cooperation with the Ariane Group space technologies Bremen, the goal is focused on 2035...then you can fly around the world without having "bad feelings" 😂
None of your mentioned/listed stuff is on any lists...you can eat pork meat en masse, and all the other cr☆p you might like, nobody is hindering you to do so 😂
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@ecaeas4439
Stating facts about the EU27 = of which ALL of them are available at the EUs Commission site !! isn't "mixing in to UKs politics" = but rather trying to inform you about EUs criteria ...whether you like those facts or not, as they don't seem to suit you (because of understandable reasons), but still won't change those facts about EUs criteria !!
We know about your Brexit related pains, you're suffering with, as most of us here either are Brits/half Brits or married with Brits or other close relations with Brits = which we explained already various times as well...
As lots of "Remainers" are still dreaming about a quick return into the "EUs SM/EEA" or other "closer alignments/re-negotiations of the TCA" or other = we're stating facts = which are available FOR EVERYBODY at the EUs Commission site...IF ANY OF YOU could be bothered to look up for those facts = discussions about these "dreams" would stop instantly...
Like "joining the EUs SM/EEA" as a 3rd country = NOT possible, because of the =
EEA Agreement= SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
About the TCA some days ago (March 24th 2024) the EUs Commission stated =
"The EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Also available at the EUs Commission site !!
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Also available at the EUs Commission site !!
And again ...reading helps...mostly...
Btw, we were talking already years ago about the needed = education about the EU, how it works and what it's for = and especially you, dear eca, were always coming up with the question "what do you mean about education...?" Exactly this = read up about the EUs criteria = for EEA/SM membership, EUs joining criteria etc = which none of you Remainers don't even seem to bother about.....instead of blaming us for ....whatever....
Btw, half of my family are British, of which half of them voted for Brexit...
And the one "with the Bavarian flag" = is a born Brit, living in the EU27, like I do 😎
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@ecaeas4439
Look, since years you are coming up with the same "none facts", like = joining the EUs SM/EEA or an ever closer relationship/aligning towards the EU" = ALL of that is NO OPTION, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, last time March 2024...
Telling me, that I don't show empathy, how do you know ?!!
What I know for sure is = people, which get false Information on purpose (even from some yt channels) = I think, it's not fair to the people (we had that subject already various times as well), as the people expext something "to be sorted" quick = which won't happen due to the EUs rules = which won't be changed...
We had the "mess" over here as well, weren't even allowed to join at the referendum, but had to live with the consequences...
And again = it's always helpfull to read AND understand at the same time...like about the EUs joining criteria...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@SunbathinginAntarctica
It's NOT a "mean girl attitude" to state facts = of which ALL of them are available at the EUs Commission site !!
Of course people can and SHOULD discuss about "joining the EU again" = but then with PROPER facts, and NOT the "cherry picking" type, like "joining the EUs SM /EEA as a 3rd country, or closer alignments with the EU/two/three tiered EU" = ALL of these "British chosen options" DON'T even exist for 3rd countries or don't exist at all !!
And the EU27 definetely wouldn't change any of their rules to benefit the UKs wishes/demands...it didn't while the Brexit negotiations were ongoing, it won't do it now = as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years !!
On top of that = it would be very nice, that the UKs electorate gets informed/educated about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament with its democratic elected MEPs (with PR), working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
Please look up about =
● Copenhagen Criteria
● EEA AGREEMENT article 126
● article 49 TEU
After reading that, a proper discussion about "joining the EU again" will be possible...
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EVERY EU member state has the right to veto the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining the EU.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
And NO, it's NOT "anti British", just simple facts about the = reality, the UK is facing about = joining the EU = and Starmer, as a former prosecutor/lawyer knows those facts = this is why he can't promise anything = as it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when !!
Btw = we don't mix in, when you're "complaining about Brexit", but when remainers coming up with = none existing options for the UK !!
And still none of us understand, why NONE of you simply do a "fact check" at the EUs Commission site 🙄
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@memarkiam
Why should 27 countries/EU, change their rules to benefit one 3rd country/UK, which left the EU on its free will, and wants to be back in because of its economical desperation?!!
If a country urgently wants to join a "club/EU", where ALL rules are well known upfront, but doesn't even like those rules, then = it should stay out of the club !!
OUR CLUB, OUR RULES !!
Joining the EU is NOT to "negotiate", but it goes like that ONLY =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly, which could take decades...
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
And again it goes = the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
As it's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to adapt the €/Euro = it's needed for EVERY applying country = to have a national debt of max 55 % !!
No negotiations = just a "list", which has to be "worked of" to join the EU27 = and IF YOU would have looked up the EUs joining criteria, as written before = I didn't need to explain it to you again...
Reading helps...mostly 😎
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
And NO, I'm NOT "anti British", as half of my family are British...but my London born spouse and I are living in the EU27...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@memarkiam Oh dear...
Reading helps...mostly ...
I NEVER stated anything like that...BUT =
it's correct = NO 3RD COUNTRY can join the SM = ONLY full EU member states and/or EFTA member states can, according to article 126 !!
I NEVER stated, that = the UK can't join the EU again = BUT, that the UK DOESN'T EVEN FULFILL THE NEEDED CRITERIA for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment...
Meaning = the UK NEEDS to WORK ON its own situation FIRST = get rid of its national debts, get back to EUs standards, like = protection of employee rights, environment, banking etc, demonstrating/striking right etc, etc = THEN the UK might be able = to be ready to APPLY for EU membership = if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU...
Those ARE the rules, the EU27 has set = btw, the UK was VERY BUSY, to make those rules as tight as possible, when being a EU member state...oh the irony...
NATO is about military...UK and most EU member states ARE in NATO...
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
"and of course UK brings big financial clout..." NOPE, but THAT doesn't come into it anyway.. because =
Again, the EU27 are a pragmatic, RULE based organisation/union = the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria...at the moment..
....and NO, finance experts have calculated, that IF the UK would be allowed back in the EU27 with its recent national debts it has = that it would COST EACH EU member state € 40 million per month/per EU member state for about 12 years, until UK would be back on track...
It had cost ALL EU27 member states huge efforts and € billions to get prepared/reroute/restructure because of Brexit, do you really think, that ALL of that gets "undone" quickly, because the UK = wishes so ?
And I'm NOT negative, BUT just stating facts !!
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are EFTA members...
Norway and Iceland are stating since years, that they would "veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a trouble maker in their club", on top of that = ALL four EFTA members together have about 16 million people living there, the UK has about 67ish million on its own, that's another reason for the EFTA members, as it would be to "outbalanced".
As stated by the EUs Commission = there are TWO options available only = full EU membership or EFTA membership.
EFTA membership is not available as written before, therefor only option available = full EU membership....
EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY, according to article 126.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
The accession criteria for EU membership are well known, and are available at the EUs Commission site or = just Google = EUs joining criteria...
It also would be very nice, when the UK would finally implement those deals/treaties, it signed with the EU27...before demanding opt outs again..
Btw, half of my family are British living in the UK...therefor no "anti British" sentimental, just simple facts about the EU27 and the joining process..
Oh, and it always needs two to tango...
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@gary5737
Look, there is EFTA = about 16ish million citizens
and the EU27 = 450ish million citizens
EFTA member states WOULD VETO the UK
EU27 membership would go like that =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU (one veto would be enough), only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
All accession criteria for EU membership are available at the EUs Commission site or Google
EUs joing criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@ADifferentBias
Education about the EU is missing, how it works and what it's for, that the EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens.
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27.
May be you should talk about that as well, about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Robert Schuman/French Minister/PM, and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union.
Unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925, Hindenburg followed him as the President of the Weimar Republic, talks about a EUropean Union stopped, the rest is history..
Jean Monnet the other "architect" of the EU and the "creator of the Schuman plan", and Robert Schuman were ongoing with their idea of a European Union..
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@wisenber As told before, it's the EU27 with 450 million people living there, and ten other countries all over the world have cooperations with the EU as well to produce green hydrogen, wether you like it or not.
Btw, since weeks the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany, some days ago the Bremerhaven public transport started the service of various busses powered by green hydrogen (produced in Bremerhaven), BASF received various millions of Euros from the German Gvt to built its own electrolyseur, and Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks/ vehicles as well as the Faun Group. Those trucks/ vehicles are already in use.
It's on the way, wether you like it or not ...
Btw, you forget that the renewables are producing electricity/ green hydrogen all the time, therefor it's a never ending story 😉
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@cepkahklc7611 NO.
As you write, being in the middle of three continents, ok, correct, but the Ottoman Empire were basicly the Turks "ruling" all the other ones being part of the Empire ...
I still don't really understand the "problems" Turks are having with Kurds. For me as a German, living in a federal state, it's like ???
Why?
The "German Nations/ todays federal states/ ancient territories of the biggest/ main ancient Germanic tribes" have managed those "issues" by being federal since about 1.200 years.
Apart from that, Germany has NINE direct border countries, therefor tollerance, peace and understanding is needed with your neighbours (as badly shown by history if it doesn't happen), so your argument, that Turkiye is in the middle of three continents, doesn't really come into that.
Living in peace with your neighbours and tollerance should go for Turkiye as well.
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@cepkahklc7611 Err, you are calling about 40ish million Kurds "a small ethnic group"?
Wow :-((
I know, they are "spread" over five countries, but if you treat people with respect, allow them to speak their language, respect their culture, there wouldn't be any problems.
But if you declare them to be criminals/ terrorists or other, of course there will be troubles.
As I wrote, being federal is very helpfull for issues like that 😉
Btw, apart from the "official" German language, there are still four other protected minority languages in Germany (Lower Saxon/ German, Frisian, Sater Frisian, Sorbic) spoken by those ethnic groups.
As everything is going "smooth" since ages, there is no need for fights.
Turkiye should give a try on that...
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@David Green
"The ancient Saxons" arrived 40ish years (about 450 ad) AFTER the Romans had left Brittany (about 410 ad, written down by the Romans, when the last Roman troops left Brittany).
Therefor the "original" ancient Britons/Celtic tribes were there on their own, which is, why they were asking for help/support from the ancient Saxons, to support them fighting against the Picts, which were invading the Britons territory.
In those days 40 years were nearly two complete generations.
When there is a "knowledge transfer interruption", and the original Britons didn't know, how to do the maintenance or even using the Roman infrastructure properly, not even talking about the hate, the Britons had against the Romans (Boudicca - 60/61 ad - comes into mind), those Celtic Briton tribes probably had even destroyed those hated Roman "heritage" themselfes.
Funny though, how you Brits even start to blame "the Normans, the Saxons" or whom ever for your todays politics, instead of doing some "self reflection".
Sigh ...
Forgot to say:
in case you're English, then about 30ish % of your DNA is Saxon, all the "other people" coming into todays England didn't leave any notable DNA in the English DNA (about 10ish % shared by Normans, Frisians, Belgians, Dutch, Danish, Anglians) | research from 2019
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@haveyaseenmiwhippet9069
Oh dear, those figures were from one year ago BEFORE winter 2022/2023, and ALL EU member states had no problems with a "lack of gas", the nat gas buffers were full, and guess what, they are full again 😊
So again, no black outs, no lack of nat gas ...
And opposit to the UK, where some of your people have to have the "choice" to either "heat or eat", us EUropean citizens can "eat and heat" 😊
Btw, since September last year no Russian nat gas imports to the EU27 anymore apart from Hungary. Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@mrriggy NO.
It's about €2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable and appreciated.
Since the UK left the EU, the EU27 are working together much smoother and faster, decisions get done faster as well, and the EU27 have sorted the UKs exit within the EU27 and have moved on.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years...
Before the UK would be able to join the EU27 again, it should sort its internal issues first, a change of mindest within the UK and its people are still urgently needed, education about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a Parliament (with PR) with its democratic elected MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens, otherwise the UKs electorate might vote for "leave" again at the following GE, and the EU27 definetely wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0 " again.
The EU27 aren't a supermarket, where one can choose and pick as wanted, or leaving and joining, depending on the electorates mood...
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@KASberlin
Na ja, Ausbau der Erneuerbaren, Umrüstung der Stahlindustrie auf grünen Wasserstoff, etc, etc...würde ich schon als Investition in die Zukunft betrachten...
Die Skandinavier haben im Laufe der letzten 15 Jahre ihre Gebäude zu 75 % mit Wärmepumpen ausgestattet und in Dänemark wurde kürzlich die größte Wärmepumpe der Welt eingeweiht, sie versorgt 100.000 Haushalte, gebaut von MAN = deutsche Technik = während wir hier immer noch am diskutieren sind...
Die EU27, EFTA, USA und 10 weitere Länder Weltweit investieren in die "grüne Zukunft = Wasserstoff etc", mit insgesamt 1 MILLIARDE Menschen..
Übrigens = Airbus Bremen entwickelt einen Wasserstoffantrieb für Passagierflugzeuge, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Ariane Group space technologies Bremen, das anberaumte Ziel ist 2035.
Bitte schau mal unter =
Wolfspeed
Infenion
TSMC
Intel
Northvolt
Microsoft
Lilly Pharmaceuticals
Ford
VW...
etc, etc = ALL diese Firmen bauen gigafactories hier in Deutschland..
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Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The so called "soft Brexit" was a fairy tale dream of the Brexiteers only, thinking, that leaving the EU would change everything for the Continental EUropeans only, not though for the Brits 😂
As stated by various EUs negotiators "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member state", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only" 😂
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
The UK left the EU27 on its own free will, therefor is a 3rd country now = 3rd country rules apply !!
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@rohitgurav16 Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Alsace-Lorraine/France, South Tyrol/Italy, partly the Netherlands, partly Belgium, partly Tchechia, partly Romania.
Most of those mentioned German spoken countries are some of the richest in the EU.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@arv-Hackney-London
NATO and EU27 are two different organisations, one is a defense alliance only, the other one is a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
Most EU27 and EFTA member states are NATO member states as well.
USA and Germany are both paying 17 % of the NATO communities fee, UK is paying 11 % of the NATO communities fee, in 2014 all NATO member states agreed on to pay 2 % of GDP/member state for NATO military equipment fee from 2024 on, which is the case.
You shouldn't listen to Orange man too much ..
Well, using China or India as a comparison to EU27, you seem to forget one thing = those mentioned countries were starting from a pretty low point of life standards, still millions of their citizens don't have electrics, clean water supply, no proper or at all school education etc...of course they have a higher % of growth, as they start from much lower level...
And isn't it nice for those countries and their people, that they finally also make some effort to have a more humane life?!!
About "the German election" = it was a election at 2 of the 16 German federal states, Thuringia has 2,12 million people living there, Germany 84ish million...
And no, no other countries wish to leave the EU27 anymore...since Brexit happened even the right wing silenced about that subject 😂
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@ecaeas4439
Look, we can talk in circles, rather loops here, it still won't change the criteria, wether you or me might like it or not...
And yes, there are some EU member states, which would veto the UKs application recently.....as it is a fact, that it's the EU27 member states, which decide, which country can join the EU and when...
Those facts are important to know, otherwise it gives wrong hope again...
...Starmer knows those criteria, this is why he can't promise anything to the UKs electorate.....= facts are helpfull, so one can "sort" certain statements/like the ones from Starmer, to make proper decisions, and not being p off about him, that he is a "traitor", because he doesn't "promise the UKs electorate to quickly get back into the EU etc"....that simple it is...
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@ecaeas4439
I described the "education" = EU has a democratic elected Parliament...that the EUs Council = the EUs member states Gvts and the democratic elected MEPs are the rule/law/decision makers in the EU etc, etc....
...and NOT crap like "the Belgians" are ruling the EU, the "unelected bureaucrats are the decision makers", the "4th Reich /EUSSR" blah, blah, blah and other crap...and not to forget the "continiously collapsing EU"...
This is, where "education about the EU, how it works and what it's for" is urgently needed...
That the EU is a peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states, with its SM included...to benefit the EUs citizens...
That it was Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
And about Jean Monnet, the other "architect " of the EU = the "Schuman plan"....etc, etc...
Look, over here in the EU kids get educated about the EU already at school.....how it works and what it's for...
And again, why should EU citizens care about the recent situation within the UK, as it's all self inflicted...and they are not "ignorant", as that is rather the British attitude by not accepting the EUs rules/criteria for joining and doing the usual "cherry picking"...
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@lemdixon01
UK can wait for ages...USA has already stated various times, that it's NOT interested in a trade deal with the UK... Obama, Trump and Biden = all three stated the same..
Why do you think the EU27 negotiators stopped the negotiations with the USA?
Because USA is demanding conditions, which the EU27 didn't want, like "Hormon boosted beef, gen manipulated food/unmarked, chloride chicken and even worse, those arbitration courts, where any US company could claim billions of $s "compensation", in case the EU27 or any/each EU member state MIGHT change any rules/laws, therefor the US company might have to adjust its product, even if it's not existing yet, when those rules would come into power...THAT would be a "blank check" for EVERY US company, do go ahead with permanent claims...
UK still can trade with the US, like the EU27 are doing 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Gewerkschaften =
5 Tage Woche,
40 Std Woche, Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall, Kündigungsschutz für Arbeitnehmer, Mutterschafts(-Urlaub), bezahlter Urlaub, etc, etc...
Oder möchtest Du wieder zurück zu den guten alten Zeiten = 14 Std Arbeitszeit, 7 Tage Woche, kein bezahlter Urlaub, keine Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall?
Bestimmt nicht..
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@lumen8666
Wenn 27 Länder/EU mit 450 Millionen Bürgern, den Ausstieg aus den fossilen Energien durchführen, plus USA mit nochmals 350 Millionen Bürgern, dann sollte man meinen, die wissen was sie tun, oder?!!
Übrigens ist Deutschland 2023 die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt 😊
Bitte mal schauen unter "green hydrogen coast line", ein Projekt der Niederlande, Dänemark und Deutschland, Fraunhofer Institut Bremerhaven ist auch dabei, alles finanziert von der EU und den Ländern.
Seit letztem Jahr fahren die weltweit ersten 14 Wasserstoffbetriebenen Züge (Alstom) in NDS, Arcelor-Mittal Stahlwerk Bremen hat seinen ersten Electrolyseur gebaut, und wird weiter ausbauen..
Daimler trucks und Faun Group haben Wasserstoff betriebene LKW etc entwickelt, die Faun Group hat diese Fahrzeuge bereits in Benutzung.. 😊
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@sadamblock2671 Wie wäre es mal mit einem Versuch in "Echtzeit", z.B. Kinderlähmung/ Polio?
Das "lohnt" sich wirklich, wenn man ungeimpft daran erkrankt.
Einfach mal googeln ....
Oder Pocken, Tetanus, bevor es für diese schweren Viruserkrankungen Impfungen gab, waren sie tödlich.
Das gilt für Tetanus übrigens noch heute, da es zwar eine Impfung, jedoch KEIN Medikament für Wundstarrkrampf/ Tetanus gibt.
Das heißt, einmal erkrankt, weil ungeimpft, folgt unweigerlich der Tod (und zwar ziemlich qualvoll).
Nur mal so ...
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Ahhh, die AfD will übrigens die Sozialsysteme abschaffen, keine Krankenversicherung, Rentenversicherung, Arbeitslosengeldversicherung, Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, Sozialversicherung, Kindergeld etc, jeder soll selber zusehen, wie er klarkommt, hat damals schon Meuthen verkündigt...
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@asmirann3636 🙄
Ever heard of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations?
Started with Charlemagne and existed for 1.006 years...
Btw, Germans invented cars, TV, radar, x-ray, computer, fridges, light bulb, telephone, jet engines, nuclear fission, bycicles, Aspirin, tram, etc, etc...
Get informed properly before posting such c....
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@shuggiemcg1
...."I hopefully get the chance to vote return"...
Well, the EU27 decide, which country can join the EU and when....
to join the EU goes like that:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly ( if not done properly the process of joining will stop instantly), which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators recently.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU MEMBER STATES to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@joeduffy3309
Well, the British negotiators wanted to pull out everything connected with "the EU"...
Unfortunately the EFTA/Norway etc members stated various times, that they'll veto the UK joining the EFTA because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
The EU27 negotiators/spokesmen stated various times as well, that "bespoke deals/like the Swiss one, are NOT available anymore either, because of "too much hustle".
Only option is: the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU again, only then the UK would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly, which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EU spokesmen.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@gottheit9082
Na ja, schau doch bitte mal unter
Wolfspeed, Saarland
Infenion, bei Dresden
Bosch, bei Dresden
Intel, bei Magdeburg
Northvolt, bei Hamburg
TSMC , bei Dresden
Ford, bei Köln
VW, 3 gigafactories 1 in NDS, 1 in Schweden in Kooperation mit Northvolt, und eine in Spanien oder Portugal
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen Stahlwerk und Saarstahl Stahlwerk werden € 1,3 Milliarden für den Umbau der Stahlwerke für die Zukunft, grünen Stahl zu produzieren.
Stillstand gab es in den 16 Jahren davor, sonst wären wir jetzt schon erheblich weiter...
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@denisgorjunov NO.
When talking about "gas" in the EU, it always and only means "nat gas", not "petrol/fuel/diesel".
Nat gas is mostly used for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc and only a small percentage for heating.
Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27.
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line ", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
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@stevemitchell1454 Sure...🤣
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which will build a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal.
Etc, etc ..
Germany is in the EU27...😊,
the EU27 is "looking" east, doing some more trade deals, like it recently did with NZ, still at negotiations with Australia, mercosur, and other countries around the world.... usual business 😊
Btw, my in England living English family and friends told me, it's going really good over there with the crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters...and the UK is loosing about £100 billion per year since Brexit | Bloomberg 🤣😎
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@anacc3257 Well, the name "Reichsbuerger" means, "citizens of the Reich, and yes, they don't accept Germany's constitution, borders, infact they doubt, that Germany even exists.
When they came up first (only one here or there), nobody took them serious of course.
But since years now they are under observation by the German intelligence, like now, they were under observation since about 1,5 years, to get as many facts as possible, usable for court.
The "real" coup was planned for spring next year, as they were saying on TV.
Greetings from Germany
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@enriquelaroche5370 Well, changing German Gvt isn't the point, as the recent one is only in since nine months, the former one, being in for sixteen years, "messed" it up. Going along with the EUs and other western countries, to sanction Putin, is the goal, and therefor we will go ahead as it is 😉Apart from that, all of this is only temporarily, as the EU/ Germany will replace ALL fossil fuels (oil/ coal/ nat gas) with green hydrogen in the near future, time table is focused on 2030-2045 😉
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@enriquelaroche5370 It will deliver benefit. The western countries have to go ahead with developing solutions and also to show, that renewables are working, including new technologies, only then the other countries will follow. All of this was on the way before the war started, but, because of the recent situation, its like a "booster" for going green even faster. Like, green energy is much cheaper than nuclear or nat gas power, but because the energy market is working on the "merit order" principle, which means, the most expensive (nat gas at the moment), "dictates" the price for ALL energy "types". EU Commission is working on that problem recently.
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@anm3037 🙄
The federal state of Saxony, with its capital Dresden, used to be part of the ex GDR, while LOWER Saxony is located at the north West of ex West Germany, along the north sea coast line with its capital Hanover, and Bremen and Hamburg within the territory of LOWER Saxony !!
LOWER Saxony Bremen and Hamburg have social democrats PMs (SPD), while Saxony/Dresden has a conservative PM (CDU).
About the history =
the ancient Saxons were living in todays federal states of LOWER Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
The federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes = the Sorbic people.
The federal state of Saxony is neighouring with Chzech Republik, while LOWER Saxony is neighouring with the Netherlands ..
Get your facts straight, before posting ! !
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@jackreacher5667
No, when the UK joined the first time, the Copenhagen Criteria didn't even exist, as they were introduced with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 only.
The UK never complied with the Copenhagen Criteria, and since it left 4,5 years ago, it has changed/stripped down various laws/regulations/restrictions, which need to be implemented properly again, plus a written Constitution would be needed...as ALL EUs laws have to be written into the Constitution...
But again, it's not up to the UK to decide, as ALL 27 EUs member states plus 10 regional Parliaments have a right to veto, and right now there are various EUs member states which wouldn't even take UKs application form for EU membership.
UK is NATO member state, like most EU27 and EFTA member states as well...therefor THAT isn't a "joining bonus" at all...
Also different = ALL NEW EU member states have to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy..therefor there is a national debt below 60 % needed as one of the applying criteria..
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@hahahahah937
Your country has a corrupt gvt, is best buddy with Russia and your former posts show, that you're not much different, thinking, corrupt autocrat Orban is a good politician...
As long as your country/Serbia, is going politicly the recent direction, it will take for ages, until Serbia will be allowed to join the EU....
About the gone up prices for fertilizer, food, energy.... you can thank your best buddy Putler for that, as those prize raises are a direct consequence of the war, Putler has started by invading Ukraine because of Putler's imperial hunger 😎
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@Peter Mizon Simple, the £350 million (on the red bus) never existed, as there was only £180 million, because of the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher. Deduct all EU subsidies the UK/ GB received, from that sum, the loss of trading being an EU member (trading with EU27 plus the existing trading deals the EU has world wide with 77 country's, and all extra costs for providing border/customs and other Services, which used to be part of "EUs membership services". Not to forget, to leave the worlds largest trading market was definetely the wrong decision, especially in in these times, where its best to be in a strong union of partners.
Greetings from the EU 😉
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@Thor.Jorgensen Good morning, Thor 😉
Was too tired last night.
Back to the German President: as said before, mostly you're correct, but we have "split of power" over here, therefor with certain laws the President has to have a look at those laws, before they past completely, and he can block them as a "last check up", when he/she thinks, that this law isn't "conform" with our Constitution.
Therefor his "blocking" makes sense, because then the not by him signed law HAS TO GO to the German Constitution High Court to be checked, and then he can/will sign, when that law got confirmed by the GCHC.
The "power split" is there since 1945, as well as we have a "Parliament army", where every action/move etc has to be confirmed first by the Federal Defense Commitee, the Parliament, the Federal High House (Bundesrat), the Federal States President (the no 4 in Germany), the Federal President (Bundespräsident, no 1 in Germany), the Head/ Speaker of the Parliament (no 2 in Germany), and the Federal Chancelor (no 3 in Germany), so to make sure, that not just one person on its own being in Gvt, can sent any troops somewhere starting a war.
Have a nice day with greetings from Bremen 😉
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@Jezza_One
Seven years after the referendum and 3,5 years after Brexit you're still coming up with the same crap, which was used to get you Brits to vote "leave"...
Same as the EU isn't "collapsing", nor other propaganda myth...
Btw, Turkiye is "candidate for EU membership" since 1999, all on hold, since Turkiye still hasn't fullfilled severe issues, like protection of human rights/womens rights, independent justice, free speech/press etc and still is occupying parts of Cyprus, etc, etc, as long those issues aren't "sorted", there won't be any progress ongoing...
Same goes for various other candidates for EU membership...
About the "EU army" = Nato
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@jezlawrence720
Well, lets say it this way: why should "the EU27" bother about a third country, the UK?
Brexit is done from the point of EUs view, now with the "NIP/Windsor agreement" signed recently, some days later one of the EUs spokesmen stated "that issue should be sortet for at least ten years".
Nobody over here in the EU27 is talking about Brexit anymore, not even in the news.
Why do I and some others here in the commenters list bother?
As my London born spouse and I had quite some "trouble" caused by Brexit (weren't even allowed to vote at the referendum), to get dual citizenship etc, and of course, having friends and family in the UK.
If I didn't have those "connections", it wouldn't bother me one bit anymore.
The EU27 has moved on in the last 7 years, but the UK/GB is stuck in Brexsh£t, and it will go on like that, I'm afraid...
All the best to you with greetings from the EU27 😊
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@jezlawrence720
I know, this is why I've explained the economical aspect of that in my first post to you, in my second I wrote about the problems /to much efforts EUropean logistic companies have to get truck drivers which are willing to sit for days/nights in their trucks to get the goods into the UK, and my third post to you was about that the EU27 doesn't bother anymore, logistic companies included.
I just listed the facts, nothing to do with being "defensiv".
Again, the UK has brought itself into this situation, the EU27 negotiators/Commission have warned the UK/GB all along the Brexit negotiations up to the last minute, even offered to put the whole Brexit procedure on hold, or strech out the transition period etc, but the UK/GB Gvt and its negotiators were "urgent" to get it done as fast as possible in this way it exists now.
All the best to you with greetings from the EU27 😊
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@psiphon2808 🙄
All the people responding to you ARE born EU citizens living in the EU27 😂
Btw, the EUs Commission is stating since years, that there won't be any "bespoke deals" anymore, because of "too much hassle".
The UK has the TCA with the EU27, and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals, it signed with the EU27.
Again = some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
Right now the EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
Again = every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
Only option available for the UK is full EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST..
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment..
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@anglosaxon4571
The English DNA is by about 30ish % of Saxon DNA, all the other people coming over into todays England didn't leave any notable DNA in the English DNA.
Another 10ish % of the English DNA is shared from ancient tribes from Danish/Jutes, Belgians, Dutch, Frisians, Normans, Swedish.
About 2-4 % of the European peoples DNA are Neanderthal's DNA 😊
The Celts were originally living at todays areas of Austria, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg/Germany, Switzerland and partly France.
About 1.000 years later the Celts moved on towards todays Ireland and the UK.
The territories of the ancient Saxons are todays Federal States of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt ( only the Saxony part).
Todays federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes.
So much to your being "real" English".... AngloSaxon 😅
Greetings from the ancient territories of the Saxons = Bremen 😊👋
Us humans always had been "on tour " 😅😎
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@britingermany
Moin to FFM 😉
Hausratversicherung is mandatory, sometimes even needed to rent an appartment.
This insurance pays for any sort of damage like Wasserschaden/shower/washing machine/dish washer etc, please look up for the conditions. Some include glass damage, stolen bycicles etc.
Also mandatory: the Haftpflichtversicherung, Covers any sort of damage, which YOU have caused on goods/people etc.
If you would have a car, there also is the Kfz/car Haftpflichtversicherung always to have. You can add the Kasko-/ or Teilkasko insurance to it, which covers damages like hale/water floodings/broken carwindows due to stones, a tree falling on your car, "Schäden durch Naturgewalten", etc, very usefull.
Speziell bei Hagelschaden 😊
Back to the "Haftpflichtversicherung":
Imagine the accident with your bike would have caused severe injuries on the other person (in most cases the "guilt/Schuldfrage" gets split 50/50 or simular, and suddenly you have to pay lifelong "compensation fee" to the other person, or "Verdienstausfall/loss of income" for various months etc, it would financially get you "stripped" pretty quick.
If you pay those two insurances once per year (in January) you'll save money opposit to when paying a monthly or half a year etc fee.
Sunny greetings 🙂
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@dizwell
Well, in the 1960s = there didn't exist "deliver on demand", no container ships, because containers started in the 1950s in USA, first containerships arrived in 1966 in Bremerhaven...
with 266 containers...
Usual loading time for a ship without containers = up to one week with about 100 men, carrying sacks/things/goods/boxes, etc...
today one Containership with about 18.000 containers on board leaves the port after 48 hours...
Todays largest containerships can carry up to 24.000 containers...
Felixstowe can take containerships with max 16.000 containers = smaller ships only !!
Reduced choice of everything ...In the 1960s = all those goods, you're used to have now = were simply not available, and if so , were very expensive !!
And, not to forget = no Inet, therefor no fast change of info...
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@dizwell
Well, as much as I know = there isn't enough space available at Felixstowe...if UKs gvt wanted to build larger ports/deepwater, it could have done that in the last 8 years/since referendum....
....right now it's going like that / and always was = containerships from USA/China etc arrive at = Rotterdam, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Hamburg = get unloaded, in case there are containers for UK on board = they get put onto smaller containerships to suit British ports...
...only difference is = when UK was EU member state = UK containers got fully checked at those Continental EU ports = as that was the outside border, where those containers arrived at the EUs SM/EEA first...
Now, since Brexit = ALL containers, which travel towards UK = just get "waved through = unchecked...
The EU27 started preparing for Brexit straight after the referendum = and was ready as soon as Brexit happened = EU27 member states ramped up staff for border controls/vet staff/customs/civil servants/civil services etc...
Opposit to the UK, which should have done the same =about 60.000 extra staff is needed now due to Brexit, for those services, the UK has to "sort" on its own now...while before, when being EU member = all of those services were included in the EUs membership fee 😂
Forgot to say = since the Houthi Rebels are there...to stay... it costs €ONE million extra per ship to go around the African Continent/as stated by some ship owners recently = higher costs for the goods...
And it takes 30 extra days...
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@dizwell
Well, as Felixstowe is UKs largest port, it's not that easy to enlarge other UK ports for these mega containerships...the Asians /China prefere ever larger containerships...don't know, if you've ever seen one of these giants...a "floating port" = sorry, but you need all these huge carrier cranes, driving fully automaticly, train tracks up to the ships, loading space..etc...may be it's about time for you, to watch some vids on yt about the needed logistics at those modern ports...
Well = move on, yes, but we here on the Continent have done that since Brexit...
But you over there have to live with it...for many more years...btw = one of my British Brexitter family member came up with the same "we managed life in the 1960s ..." yeah, of course, human beings have managed since hundreds of thousands of years...just depends, which standard of life one preferes..
Forgot to say = when Felixstowe wasn't on the route of MSC and Maersk anymore = those containers had to get diverted towards the EU ports again...inner couple of weeks ALL extra
storage areas for containers had an overload, in the end ALL UK containers were stored at Wilhelmshaven deepwater port = nearly 200.000 containers were blocking all EU ports . ..the workers there had to do double shifts for months, because unfortunately UK didn't get its sh£t together to take its own containers back to UK.
Container shipping is a very fine tuned issue...
All the best to you with greetings from Bremen 🍻🖐
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@hfricke2661
To be honest, I don't care, who was first with what, main thing is, that the allies are doing their job, which they are.
It's amazing, how many people here on the comments list seem to have been personally part of secret Nato meetings.
None of us knows, who said what and when about deliveries.
People seem to forget, that it's war, and the enemy is watching.
Btw, about 14.000ish Ukrainian soldiers/ technicians are in Germany/ Poland for training since October 2022 ...
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@danuaditya642 NO.
With the knowledge of today, renewables should rather be used, instead of going ahead as in the last 150 years...
When you use solar panels on your roof, then even the hut in the forrest will finally have electricity and clean water/pump...
The EU27 are giving so called "micro credits" to do so = mostly to women = as they go carefull with that money = open up businesses, can pay money for their kids, to go to school = education is the key to progress ☺️
The EU27, EFTA, USA and another 10 countries world wide = 42 countries with about ONE BILLION people living there = are going green = will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Looking at the past, like 1970/1980s = filters were built in to reduce polution at industrial plants, the cars had to have catalyc converters, electrical items had to progress, to use less electricity, but keeping the same power...national parks were installed, animal protection, water protection etc = ALL of that got installed over the last decades...poorer countries get support via money/technologies/knowledge etc ..
It's coming...you'll see ☺️
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@Jose-sy1je NO.
Greece had been cheating its economic figures to get "into the club", had a disastrous tax system (in fact not really existing), had been paying out pensions to people, which weren't even alive anymore and soforth.
Those countries, which had given huge credits to Greece, had to bail out Greece, to stabilise the Eurozone, and supported Greece to get its tax system into shape again. Greece is doing good now.
NO EU member state has been "annexed", what bs statement is that. If a country wants to join the EU (no country is forced to do so), it has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, etc...
The EU is not only an economic block, but started as a peace project, based on solidarity...ALL of the recent EU member states citizen are by approx 80ish % pro EU, therefor nothing to complain about.
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site book shop...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@riz8437
Well, "joining the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of tve EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
ALL NEW EU member states have to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Therefor it's part of the EUs joining criteria to have a national debt of max 55-60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.. = about £ ONE TRILLION it has to get rid of..
The UK lost £ 100 billion due to Brexit in 2022
The UK lost £ 140 billion due to Brexit in 2023 | Bloomberg and Financial Times
January this year the "passporting" went back into the EU27, June 2025 the "Euroclearing" will be back in the EU27, then Brexit is complete, as the transition period of FOM for capital ends June 2025.
This is a huge loss for the City of London, as those financial services are making up about one third of worlds market for clearing services = a value of £ 260 trillion per year.
Those figures don't include the loss of the clearing services yet...
Of course UK can prepare for EU membership, but it'll take quite a while...
I wish you all the best with greetings 👋
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@blacquejacqueshellaque6373 The 200 billion Euros the German Gvt has "put up" to protect the German economy and the German citizens, lets call it "investment for the future", because it would cost much more, if the German economy would shrink.
About green hydrogen:
the EU/ Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045. The recent situation is a booster/ speeding up/ forcing the progress "going green, this is why the German Gvt has set the year 2024, pressure sometimes helps ;-))
The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have the project "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and the Gvts.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well. Hydrogen can replace nat gas as raw material for proceeding things like steel, paper, glass etc.
Along the coast lines electrolyseurs are under construction to produce green hydrogen (wind to power).
Daimler and Volvo Trucks and the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered vehicles/ trucks, which are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
BASF just received 135 million Euros for building an Electrolyseur to produce its own green hydrogen to replace nat gas.
48%of Germany's electricity gets produced with renewables (wind, solar, water) and I'm using wind powered electricity since 15 years.
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@WitchVillager
Well, the "old English" is closer towards "Lower Saxon/German language ", which still exists today all over the North of Germany along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea), and is spoken by about 5ish million Germans.
As it's its own language and quite different to "High German/Hoch Deutsch" you still had to learn the "High German ", because nobody would understand you in the "rest" of Germany 😊
Btw, my London born spouse doesn't understand "Lower Saxon language " at all (including my married on English family), but they all think it sounds quite nice and not as "hard" as "High German " 😊.
Some examples:
Lower Saxon = English
he, se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat, wat = that, what
de = the
as = as
us = us
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
talk = talk
melk = milk
soster = sister
klock tein = ten o'clock
Of course the pronounciation is different to the English language...
Greetings from Germany 🙂
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@DougRayPhillips
West -Germanic languages are: English, Dutch, Flamic, German
East-Germanic languages are:
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Lower-Saxon language = English
he, se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat, wat = that, what
de = the
as = as
us = us
broken = broken
talk = talk
school = school
water = water
soster = sister
tell = tell
klock tein = ten o'clock
modder = mother (dd = th)
"De Welschen/the Welsh " the ancient Saxons were calling all those tribes which were living to the west (todays England) of their territory and it means " the other ones, the ones from abroad, the strangers ".
Until today you're "de Welschen/the Welsh " when moving into another town or small village in Lower Saxony.
Btw, there are still about 5ish million Northern Germans speaking the Lower Saxon language all along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea), and the Lower Saxon language is under Unesco world heritage protected as a "minority language", same as the Frisian language.
Greetings from Germany
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@johnrussell3961 There never was a "soft or hard" Brexit available, as there is only "in or out" the EU or EFTA.
The "fairy tale/ cherry picking" idea of the Tory's, to stay in the SM without any of the coming rules with it (which in your/their eyes would be a "soft" Brexit), like the four freedoms (free movement of goods, people, services, capital within the EU) including paying a "member fee" and accepting the European High Court was the problem of that issue all along the Brexit negotiations, as the British negotiators were demanding continiusly exactly and only that: full access to the SM without any of the duties coming with it.
Either because of arrogance or non- understanding, how the EU and the SM works, especially as the SM is the core/ heart of the EU and therefor strongly protected, the British Gvt (and the people) has/ have to understand, that here never will be any other options as EFTA or full EU membership available, as bitter it is. All that was explained/declared by the EU negotiators continiusly, the EU27 even offered up to the last minute of Brexit negotiations and up to the end of the transition period, that if wanted, Brexit could be stopped. The British Gvt refused continiusly that offer.
That's it, the books are closed.
Greetings from the EU
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@rwentfordable
Ahh, the Brexling is talking, coming up with the usual "Brexit bs"...
There is quite a difference, if a rich country/Germany has an economical dent since some months, or, like the UK, has been run down since 13 years due to Tory austerity...ending with ...
...crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, etc...
Meanwhile in Germany...
please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt, and one in Spain or Portugal...
Btw, the UK is loosing £100 billion per year since Brexit |Bloomberg
Fitch affirms UK rating AA-
outlook negative
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms the EU rating AAA
outlook stable 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@geoffadams8912
Again: EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states, according to article 126.
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
EU membership issues don't get negotiated at Davos...
EU membership doesn't get negotiated, but goes like this:
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly ( if not done properly, joining process stops instantly), which could take decades.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
As stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen, the UK is welcome to join the EU again, UNDER THE KNOWN CONDITIONS = article 49 TEU.
All Infos are available at the EUs Commission site...
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@kazomazo6646
Haven't seen this Text from you before 😉
But, as I've written before, most all of EU military equipment is in use, on top of that, why should the USA pay for EUs military equipment?
You know, how long it takes to build lets say a tank ...
To "speed" the production up, a country has to (economicly) go into "war modus", bad "side effect" of that would be, that ALL of the usual manufacturers have to step back (doesn't matter if they are producing shoes, pots, cars, clothes), they all would have to start with manufacturing military equipment, therefor those countries would shrink their own economies and as a result of that, couldn't support Ukraine anymore.
For example: since 2014 Germany is the largest donor to Ukraine, without that money Ukraine couldn't even pay the pensions, the civil servants nor the soldiers anymore either.
All is "connected" to everything.
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@duncansmith7562 Yeah, I know, as I've got family and friends in the UK. I'm very sorry for all of you over there!
Well, the EU isn't that bad actually, and most EU member states are supporting their citizen financially, so it's sort of bearable at the moment.
We'll see, how the coming year will turn out.
Filled up my car today, and was happily surprised, that the fuel prices have dropped quite a lot, why ever, I was happy about that.
All the best to you 😉
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@fridolinoberboersch9425
Einfach mal die Doku von Tom Costello anschauen "hard Brexit - der Coup der reichen Elite".
Übrigens, das von Richard Tice ( in der Doku kurz vor Ende) gesprochene Statement: Brexit "was all about, to strip down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style", also sämtliche Gesetze zum Schutz der Arbeitnehmer, Umwelt, Bankenregulierung, Demonstrationsrecht etc abzuschaffen, sind bereits dereguliert/ abgeschafft worden oder werden weiterhin "aufgeweicht".
Seit einem Jahr dürfen sämtliche Abwässer ungefiltert/ungereinigt in Britische Gewässer eingeleitet werden, "Klossbrühe" und gesperrte Strände an Britischen Küsten sind die Folge, mal abgesehen von der verseuchten Fauna/Flora.
Momentan arbeitet die Britische Regierung gerade an der Umsetzung einer weiteren Verschärfung/Einschränkung des Demonstrationsrechts.
Und der NHS ( Britisches Gesundheitssystem) "drückt" Patienten mittlerweile "Flyer" mit Listen von Privat Praxen in die Hand, falls sie Behandlung wünschen, dieses doch bitte privat zu regeln.
Also alles bestens da drüben auf der "befreiten" Insel ...
Einfach mal dort hin ziehen ...
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@Deepthought 42
I'm sorry to say, there never existed a "hard or soft Brexit", as it's either "in or out" the EU.
What you (and parts of the British Gvt) call a "soft Brexit = access to the SM without the duties coming with it (the four freedoms: free movement of goods, people, services, capital), the "membership fee" and accepting the European High Court was/ is the "fairy tale/cherry picking" and non understanding of the EU by your Gvt and the British people. There is severe education needed about the EU, how it works and what its all about should start already at school.
If you're interested, have a look up about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", whos idea of an European Union started in the 1920s.
Greetings from the EU
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@Deepthought-42 Good morning and thanks for your response 😉
I'm really sorry for all of those in the UK/GB, which wanted to stay in the EU and enjoying being an EU citizen!
The UK/GB Gvt even tighented it up for everybody, who would have like to have a dual citizenship.
Dual citizenship AFTER the UK/GB left the EU isn't possible anymore.
I know about that, because "my" London born spouse and I went to a lawyer for "rights of immigration" before Brexit was installed, she told us, that as soon the UK/GB has left the EU, the UK/GB wouldn't allow dual citizenship anymore. Therefor "my" spouse applied for it straight away. The authorities over here extra installed a "fast track = application only took two months, as they were doing all the check ups parallel at all needed institutions and not, like usually done, one after the other" just for the Brits living here and they were also sending out information letters, to warn about the Brexit consequences. Only in "our" community there were about 30 % more immigrants applying for citizenship, all of them were Brits. Each one had to do a short "self introduction", many of them (in front of all of us/family/friends etc incl the major, civil cervants and other authorities) lost their temper, it was heart braking.
I wish you all the best with greetings from Bremen 😉
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@emmabird9745 Hi Emma, you're correct, we have to do more, all of us! But Britain is definately in a terrible situation. Was a bit of a shock, when one of our friends near Nottingham told me about that recently, as we here on the Continent thought, that Britain is fine with energy (at least that), but its not. I'm very sorry about that! About the "back to coal power plants", without this terrible war there would have been no need for that backwords decision at all, as EU/ Germany is heading towards green energy anyway. All the best for you, greetings from Bremen 😉
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@yoo_hoo_anyone_there
You should be aware that Germany is federal, most of the todays federal states are the original territories of the biggest ancient Germanic tribes, therefor lots of things/food/goods have different names like:
Krapfen in the south,
Viktoria in Bremen,
Berliner everywhere but Berlin, while in Berlin they are called Pfannkuchen.
While Pfannkuchen everywhere else in Germany is whats called Eierkuchen in Berlin 🤣
When I moved from Bremen to Berlin, most food like at bakeries, butchers etc had completely different names or, even worst, same name for a different thing/food 🤣
Bread roll: Brötchen (North), Rundstück (West)
Semmel (South),
Schrippe (Berlin) etc.
Same goes for cakes, if available, because of different traditions, or virtually everything at the butchers 🤣
Happy Easter from Bremen 😊
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@martinbennett2228
Well, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen over and over again/since Brexit, there are only two options available "full EU membership or EFTA membership", of which the latter isn't available anymore, as written before...
EEA Agreement = "SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU member states and EFTA member states"...".... the EEA Agreement according to article 128 of the Agreement"...
Ukraine doesn't have "an agreement", but has the status as a "candidate for EU membership"... same as Turkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, etc, etc,.... therefor NOT comparable at all..
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@martinbennett2228
I posted that snippet of the EEA Agreement, so you can see the criteria... Not to "discuss" various "options", ...
To use Ukraine as example is wrong. .as Ukraine is at war...without being at war it wouldn't even be a "candidate for EU membership" yet, as it didn't fulfill the Copenhagen Criteria, but having this "status quo", the EUs Commission can use different "pots" of money to support Ukraine, as it's not even a EU member state..
Please use Google by typing "EU Institutions/FAQs, and all needed infos are popping up....as the EUs institutions are very open and visible, treaties included...
And as usual and expected, cherry picking before even being in the EU again..
Why do you think, that 27 countries with their 450ish million citizens would "change" its own rules, just to benefit the UKs demands...
Forgot to say, the UK has the TCA and the NIP/Windsor agreement with the EU27, and it would be very nice, if it finally would implement those deals it has with the EU ..."REVIEW " will happen in 2025...NOT a "re-negotiation" though...
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@crackerbarrel210
I'm sorry to say = "the EU27" don't have Feelings, as it's a rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their democratic elected Parliament (with PR) and its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
While the Brexit negotiations were ongoing, the EUs negotiators offered and warned the UK, that "leaving the EU will cause massive damage for the UKs people and economy", but, as we know now, the UKs gvt went ahead...
As stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times as well "no exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war....
If you have any other chance to leave the UK, then I would do so !!
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27/Germany 🖐
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@ami443 NO.
The Romans called ALL tribes living to the right side of the river Rhine "Germanic", while those tribes which were living there didn't even call themselfes that.
The term "Deutsch" origins from the term "Thiutisk = us people", and evolved over the last 2.000ish years to "tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch".
The Celts were originally living at todays areas of Austria, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg/Germany, Switzerland and partly France, about 1.000 years later the Celts moved on towards todays Ireland and the UK.
West Germanic languages are English, Dutch, Frisian, Lower-Saxon and German languages.
North Germanic languages are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Greetings 🖐
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@mikofi
It didn't "pop up out of nothing", but all EU member states agreed on that about 16ish years ago, to swap to e-cars complete from 2035 on....one would think, that that time frame is long enough to adjust, especially as all car manufacturers knew the whole time, that combustion engines will run out, because renewables are taking over...
BMW, Mercedes, VW were developing already cars running on hydrogen, but stopped it again, instead concentrating on building combustion engine cars..., Porsche developed the first electric car ever already in 1898....
Btw, "the EU27" ARE the EU member states, which are the decision makers !!
Forgot to say = of course we're allowed to drive our combustion engine cars as long as they're running, can even by used ones again, just no new combustion engine cars get build anymore after 2035...
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Tiny correction please = "Germanic" are all languages like = English, Dutch, German, Frisian, Lower-Saxon...Danish, Swedish, Norwegian ..
But German are the people...Germanic were all ancient tribes, like the Franks, Saxons, Jutes, Belgians, Dutch, Frisians, Vikings etc
So your Royals are very German...like all English, as all English people have by one third ancient Saxons DNA 😂
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@lucfrombelgium5435 That's different, the German's did it due war, the Russian's (as an "occupating" country) don't need war to do so. They suck out/ strip down the occupied country's, polute the environment etc (where the Russian army barracks were, the soil was contaminated 8 m into the ground). I would say, it's part of the deeply corrupt system, until today! And what was left over from the Russian army, after the USSR fell apart, was sold in bits and pieces on "flea markets", like whole uniforms, guns, etc :-((
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@augth NO.
You can't compare todays German language with the English language, you have to compare the English language with the Lower Saxon/German language...as the High German language isn't comparable with the Lower Saxon/German/Nedderdüütsch language...
Lower Saxon = English
he, se, mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat, wat = that, what
us = us
de = the (dd = th)
(no : der, die, das)
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
modder = mother
soster = sister
open = open
klock tein = ten o'clock
etc, etc, the "r" is "rolled" like the Gaelic "r"
Even the todays "English word/term" Welsh origins from the Saxons, which were calling all those tribes, which were living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh", and the meaning is "the other ones, the ones from abroad, the strangers ".
One still gets called "de Welschen" in Lower Saxony/Germany, when moving into another town/village 😊
The Lower Saxon/German language is still spoken by about 4ish million Germans living in the North of Germany, all along the coast lines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, and is a "Unesco world heritage protected minority language", like Frisian, Scottish or Welsh languages.
Apart from that : English, Dutch and German are West Germanic languages.
Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are North Germanic languages.
Hol di fuchtig met groetens ut Bremen 🖐
All the best with greetings from Bremen 😊
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@markperrin8098
How poor it is, that you're banging on GDPs the whole time, while British kids are suffering with scurvy and rickets...the "results" of that will stay with them for the rest of their lifes...
What you Brits still don't seem to understand, ALL EU member states and the EUs Parliament have the PR voting system, therefor 80+ % of ALL EU citizens DON'T vote the right wing....opposit to the UK, where 34 % can get a majority of 80 seats, with its unelected Lords and unelected PMs, the crappy FPTP voting system, the lose collection of papers called "Constitution", and since 2022 the "separation of powers " got changed to "the PM can dissolve the Parliament on his own "...ahhh, a true democracy" UK is 😂😎
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@markperrin8098
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg ( at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament.
His book "for Europe " is available at the EUs Commission....
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
The EU27 are in permanent change/progress the whole time, as agreed already at the treaty of Rome in 1957 and confirmed again at the Maastricht treaty in 1992.
The EU27 are a peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong, THAT are the EU27". 😊
This is what Brits never understood, until today...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@markperrin8098 Oh dear...
comparing the USSR with the EU27...is the confirmation of what I wrote "until today you Brits still don't seem to understand the EU, how it works and what it's for"
Be happy with your crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of employee rights, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, raising cases of rickets and scurvy, etc...
Thanks again for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@ZZM87
Das ist jetzt nicht Dein Ernst, oder?
Weder wirst Du ins Gefängnis kommen, nur weil Du gerade das hier schreibst, was Du schreibst, noch wirst Du Probleme bekommen, weil Du Deine Religion ausübst...
Anders sieht es in den Staaten aus, in denen der Islam als politische Institution benutzt wird, weder in Iran, Saudi Arabien, etc, etc, kann Mensch/Frauen schon mal gar nicht, seine freie Meinung äußern noch eine Religion seiner Wahl ausüben...
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@structuresoftwere9363
You're a real expert, eh? 🤣
Merkel hadn't done anything, apart from "not closing the German borders, like ALL other EU/Schengen member states did, as THAT is the meaning of Schengen = ALL borders within EU/Schengen ARE OPEN.... BUT, ALL EU member states border police/German ones included, were on "stand by", ready to close ALL borders instantly... BUT, ALL EU member states decided, to keep the borders open, to prevent a "humanitarian desaster", or what do you think, would have happened, if Germany would have closed its borders, and hundreds of thousands of refugees would have been "stuck" in tiny countries, which wouldn't have been able to provide the needed infrastructure, like "medical check ups in case of deseases/vaccination, food, housing, registration including finger prints and photos etc...
And yes, recently it was "leaked", that the Polish Gvt/PIS party had sold about 350.000ish illegal/black working visas...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
The "terms" are the same for EVERY applying country = the Copenhagen Criteria
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@Withnail1969 I don't get upset at all, as it was the "usual comment (collapsing EU/ members) about the EU27.
The EU27 have an extra fund/ budget for emergencies in case of bad times. As a person I would call it " back up savings", with that money EU will sort it 😉
Btw, the EU/ Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045. Hydrogen can also be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others. Various start ups are working on alternative storage batteries as well. The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have the project "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks as well as the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered trucks, which are already in use and some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany. Hydrogen will also replace nat gas, which is used as raw material for proceeding steel, glass, paper etc. The recent under construction being LNG Terminals are convertable to hydrogen. Germany and Namibia will build the worlds largest solar park incl productions plants for green hydrogen and Ammoniac.
48% of Germany's electricity gets produced with renewables (wind, solar, water). And I'm using wind energy for electricity since 15 years 😉
Greetings from Germany
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@Freedom Dreamer
They are no "preppers", they are "Reichsbuerger", they don't accept Germany's constitution, the recent system, refuse to pay tax, don't accept the authorities, but definetely nothing to do with the prepper scene.
The "Reichsbuerger" are under strong observation by German authorities (police, intelligence services etc) since years, this raid was a great success and shows, that the German democracy is working good. They did a great job, which I'm very happy of.
Greetings from Germany
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@CasabaHowitzer 😁
Yes, this guy, you responded to always write fact free stuff ..
About "Saxony" =
the federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes = the Sorbic people...and yes, they speak euther high German or the Sorbic language.
The territories of the ancient Saxons were living in todays federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part), the Lower-Saxon language is still spoken by about 4ish million Germans living along the coast lines of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
Lower-Saxon language = Low German, so yes, the language still exists, and is a Unesco world heritage protected minority language, same as the Frisian, Sorbic, Scottish and Welsh languages 😊
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@freeforester1717
Martin Sonneborn is a German comedian...
The EUs Parliament is the worlds second largest democratic Parliament with secret, free, secret and independent elections (with PR) every five years since 1979.
The EUs "green deal" will go like this:
the EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
The EU27 have signed "green hydrogen" cooperations with ten other countries world wide, to support each other with money, technologies etc.
Please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which will build a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries in Lower-Saxony/Germany, sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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Be rather happy, that you don't have a trade deal with the USA...they would pull you over the barrel...
This is, why the EUs negotiators stopped all negotiations with the USA, because of the demands the USA have made, like chloride chicken, hormon boosted beef, gen manipulated food/unmarked, and those private arbitration courts, which would have enabled any US company to claim for "loss of profit" in case of any laws/regulations would have been changed in the EU...
....even if the US product wasn't produced by that time nor had been existing, the US companies still could claim either all EUs member states or the EUs Commission...that would have been a "blanco cheque" for any US company for permanent claims...
UK still can trade with the USA, same as the EU27 are doing 😊
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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Hi Shaun 😊,
while reading your comment, I was wondering, what WW II has to do with the issues of todays British politics and the way, the British youth gets treated by its own gvt? 🤔
My London born spouse and I are living in the EU27/Germany, thinking about your question "if it would have been better to be a born French, Dutch, German or Brit after WW II"?
Well, as all those mentioned before Continental EUropean member states/countries had mostly been crumbled to dust due to the war...
All of them received money due to the Marshall plan =
UK = $ 3,75 billion
Germany = $ 1,5 billion, of which $ 1 billion had to be paid back = of course, as Germany was the agressor...
All of those mentioned before countries are todays EUs member states and in a much better situation than the UK is in...
What makes me wonder, why are so many Brits...unfortunately until these days, are referring to WW II for so many of todays issues...meanwhile the British and German air forces are doing the air policing at the Baltics = always with British/German cockpit crews 😊
May be the simple answer to your question would be = that it's British politics and its politicians, which are supposedly should act on behalf of the British people/electorate/country, and not to benefit their own buddies..
I wish you all the best with greetings from the EU27/Germany 😊🖐
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@shaunbell499
Thanks for answering...
Well, not so much really...why?
The generation before yours were baby's /toddlers/kids at the time around WW II happened, the ones coming after you just know it due to history lessons at school...
So it were your grandparents generation talking about it?
As a EU citizen I can tell you, that unfortunately most of Brexitters, partly Remainers as well, still seem to fight WW II...as THAT statement pops up quite regular against the EU citizens and the EU27 itself 😒
Then I would say, that it might have been better to be a born Dutch, French or German after WW II...
A change of mindset might be an idea for British society...may be the following generations of Brits have a chance on doing so...
Forgot to say = the Dutch and German armies are fully merged since 2023, that process started already in 1995.
It needs to get worked on the past...that includes the British Empire as well, as that meant = invading, occupation, so called "colonialism"....and not = the "glory of the British Empire"....
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 !!
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@pyroman2918 Imagine, if half of Germany's households (~22million) will switch all to electricity to heat their homes: instant blackout. No such solution. Btw, not heating with nat gas ( nat gas for heating is only about 15% of Germany's nat gas consumption) is the problem here, but Germany's industry needs nat gas as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper, medical units, Aspirin, dairy products etc, etc. In the near future EU/ Germany will replace oil, coal, nat gas with green hydrogen. The time table is focused on 2030-2045. Without this terrible war any of this wouldn't even have been a subject.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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UK can't "gravitate back" to Brussels...as it's either "in" or "out"...UK is "out" = a 3rd country now = 3rd country rules apply!!
Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission).
The UK has the TCA with the EU27, and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement properly those deals, it signed with the EU27 4,5 years ago !!
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up ".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels ( oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Please look up for the "green hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
About 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water).
It's on the way ...
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@annerigby4400 😊
Exactly, Farage thought, as been married (at that time) to a German would be enough to claim for German citizenship.
My London born spouse had to apply for German citizenship (we took advice from a lawyer specialised on immigration/citizenship issues, she recommended the "best" version: citizenship, if possible, so we did).
The Gvts immigration office will send you a "huge pile of forms/papers", which have to be filled in by the applicant, one of the long list of questions is "where have you been living (including approx. times/adresses etc), which gets checked by the German authorities 😊, that's it, done 🤣
As in Germany EVERYBODY living here (wether German or other) HAS TO BE REGISTERED (of course not tourists or people living here short time), therefor it's a "pretty quick one" to be checked 🤔 😊.
Now it might sound "frightening", that the Gvt knows, where one is living, the positive effect is, that one gets ALWAYS the poll papers (nobody has to apply for it), as well as lots of other needed papers.
Back to the "party" at civil servants offices, probably not too many had seen Farage's application, because what gets checked first is the "criminal backround" and "since when is the applicant living here".
Have a nice day with greetings from Germany 😊
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@chessnut4886 It wasn't only the former Gvt, but also (mostly) huge companies, like BASF, Siemens etc, which were (and are) involved in those nat gas deals. BASF for example had bought nat gas fields in Sibiria and built the needed infrastructure for it. Therefor the German industry was doing good businesses, lots of people had/have work. That's how capitalism works. Even with the New situation there are still huge companies, which ate investing more money etc for production plants in China. I don't like that either, but it looks like, that humans are "like that"/ greed.
Btw, the EU/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have the project "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts. Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks as well as the Faun Group have developed hydrogen powered vehicles, which are already in use. Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
The LNG terminals (recently being under construction) are convertable to hydrogen.
Namibia and Germany will build the worlds largest solar park including production plants for green hydrogen and Ammoniac.
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Well, they never existed because of the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher, it were £180 million only, if you deduct the EU subsidies, it's down to £120 million, if you deduct the costs for, since Brexit needed infrastructure, like customs/border staff/infrastructure, civil services/servants etc, plus the huge losses of trading due to Brexit..., the UK ended up with a loss of £100 billion per year since Brexit |Bloomberg
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@jamesgunn5103 🤣😎
Sure...., "the EU" is collapsing again since decades at any minute... oh dear... you Brits are funny, one couldn't make it up..🤣,.... be happy on your Plague Island with your sewage poluted British waters, your crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS, converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating etc, etc....... 🤣
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@Ben-sh1dl
NO.
Electricity isn't the problem (nuclear power), but nat gas is...like BASF (worlds largest chemical production plant) has the same consumption of energy per year than the whole of Switzerland has.
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
The last 3 nuclear power plants Germany had, were producing about 4 % of Germany's electricity, which has been compensated already by renewables (wind, solar, water)...
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@Ben-sh1dl NO.
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts.
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
Since 2022 the worlds first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany.
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received € 1,3 billion EU subsidies to build their own electrolyseurs/windmills and arc furnaces, to produce green steel in the near future.
The EU27, EFTA member states, USA and another 10 countries world wide have agreed on "going green", therefor contracted cooperations for green hydrogen and technologies/money etc.
One would think, that 41+ countries with about one trillion people living there, decide to "go green", that they're knowing, what they're doing 😊
The EU27 have put up € ONE TRILLION for going green = the EUs "green deal".
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Well, the UK signed the TCA with the EU27 4,5 years ago and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement properly those deals, it signed with the EU27.
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
"No deal will be as good or even better than being EU member state" !!
The UK left the EU27 on its own free will, therefor is a 3rd country now = 3rd country rules apply !!
Being in EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
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@mart_en
Andere Bedingungen, die USA/Kanada haben "lediglich" eine Landgrenze, und selbst damit haben sie genug zu tun, (Südamerika)
Australien ist ganz für sich und sehr weit weg von anderen Ländern, auch nicht wirklich vergleichbar.
Auch wenn das Mittelmeer gross ist, so hat es aber einige "schmalere" Stellen, wo genau das möglich ist, was gerade passiert.
Nicht zu vergessen, die EU und Deutschland "fahren" seit Jahren Aufklärungs-Kampagnen in den Herkunftsländern (habe mal nen Bericht darüber gesehen), um die Leute davon abzuhalten, hierher zu kommen.
Problem dabei, kulturell bedingt gilt man in den meisten dieser Herkunftsländer als "Versager", wenn man zurück kommen würde, weil "es total einfach ist, in der EU reich zu werden, so das dortige Bild über die EU = Paradies", da viele von den hier Ankommenden Fotos nach Hause schicken, auf denen sie vor einem Mercedes oder was auch immer stehen, um zu beweisen, dass sie es "geschafft" haben. Und dann kommen eben noch mehr, weil sie es auch "schaffen" wollen...
Die Länder (in Afrika), mit denen die EU Abkommen hat/gegen Bezahlung, diese Menschen aufzuhalten, haben leider zum größten Teil korrupte Regierungen, was auch nicht hilfreich ist...
Man kann nur hoffen, dass alle EU Staaten das irgendwie "in den Griff" bekommen...
Apropos "neues Einwanderungsgesetz nach Kanadischem Punktesystem".... wahrscheinlich würde kaum einer derjenigen, die hier "per Boot" ankommen, die benötigten Anforderungen erfüllen, ein Arbeitsvisum zu bekommen, in welchem EU Land auch immer.
Vielleicht steckt ja auch Putin hinter diesem stark erhöhten "Zuwachs", wie schon im letzten Jahr, als so viele vom Iran/Irak nach Belarus zur Polnischen Grenze gebracht wurden, um die EU zu destabilisieren...
Einen schönen Tag noch 😊
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@Faluzeer
Yeahh, that were the fairy tale dreams of the Brexitters only, to think, that everything changes for mainland Continental EUropeans only, but nothing for the Brits.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
On top of that all 4 EFTA member states have about 16ish million people living there, the UK has about 67ish million people, that would outbalance the EFTA members, which isn't wanted !!
The EUs Commission is stating since years, that a "Swiss deal" won't happen anymore, as it is "too much hassle".
Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU...as they're membership perks only.
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@Paul-eb4jp Yeah, all sounds great, but do you really believe, that after all of this "huzzle", the EU27 and their negotiators went through in the last six years (not to forget the millions of Euros, the EU27 invested for restructuring the 40 years existing trade infrastructures etc), employing people (customs, borders etc), after all of that the EU27 are saying: allright UK, you've made a wrong decision/ mistake, come home into the European family when ever you like?!
Doesn't work like that. There is a huge loss of trust towards the UK/ GB, I guess. It's a very sad story actually.
Btw, yes, unfortunately the UK/ GB was problematic. Have you ever watched the EU Parliament at work? The British EPMs were behaving like the "bad boy in the last bench" at school, disturbing the whole class trying to follow the lesson. The applause from the EPMs was massive when the British EPMs left for ever the EU Parliament.
Greetings from the EU 😉
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It's not "Johnsons deal", but =
January this year the "passporting" went back into the EU27, June 2025 the "Euroclearing" will be back in the EU27, then Brexit is complete, as the transition period of FOM for capital ends June 2025.
That will be a huge loss for the City of London, as those financial services are making up about one third of worlds market for clearing services = a value of £ 260 trillion per year.
Leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
The four pillars of the EUs SM/EEA are the FOM of people, goods, services and CAPITAL.
The so called "soft Brexit" was a fairy tale dream of the Brexiteers only, thinking, that leaving the EU would change everything for the Continental EUropeans only, not though for the Brits.
As stated by various EUs negotiators "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member state", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only".
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU...
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form.
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@vereferreus5262 NO.
Please look up about Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
Robert Schuman/French Minister/PM and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925, Hindenburg followed him as the President of the Weimar Republic, talks about a EUropean Union stopped, the rest is history..
Please look up about Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU and the creator of the "Schuman plan".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The Treaty of Rome set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital.
Churchill jumped on an already existing train, same as Thatcher...
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@georgestewart3924
Being in EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Apart from, that all 4 EFTA member states have about 16ish million people living there, the UK has about 67ish million people, that would outbalance the EFTA members, which isn't wanted !!
Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), but, as written before = the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
And neither Starmer nor any other UKs politicians/party can promise anything, which isn't up to the UK anyway, but up to the EU27 only !!
Greetings from the EU27 👋
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@SlaveOfDevas
You should read ALL of your own posts again = first you blame all western countries, that "they " think, Russians are "untermensch" = answer to that = no, as partly the wifes were Germans, like partly the Tsars....YOUR answer on THAT = it's their direct founder of their dynasty 😅
You're talking in circles 😂😎
So "German/Austrians" thought, they're "untermensch", eventhough they're Germans?!!
Ahhh, yess...
Oh dear, so sad, never mind 😂
Btw, there wasn't just one Tsar, but many of them, of which only the Romanovs were descendants of Germans...
The term "Rus/the people" = the Skandinavian Rus = were a Germanic tribe....
The term "Germanic" was used by the Romans only, which were calling all those tribes which were living to the right side of the river Rhine, while the tribes, which were living to the right side of the river Rhine, didn't even call themselfes that...
The term "Deutsch" origins from the term "Thiutisk = us people", and over the last 2.000ish years changed into = tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch....
Apart from, what does all of your distraction about Russians have to do with the recent war, that Russia started by invading Ukraine = all because of Putler's imperial hunger?!!
Greetings 😎
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@peterdavidson3268
"Rapprochement, realignment, joining the EU asap, etc" = the usual British cherry picking =
UK has the TCA/NIP/Windsor agreement with the EU27...and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals/treaties, it signed with the EU27...
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated "the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is looking for further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
And yes, right now there are various EUs member states, which would veto the UK...
And again = the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
Starmer can sort UKs internal/national issues first...the EUs Commission/negotiators/spokesmen are stating this since years over and over again...
EVERY EU member state has one voice, Malta (about 550.000 people) the same as Germany (about 84ish million people), every EU member state has one voice.
ONE voice/veto is enough, to stop the whole process of joining...
The UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled and implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years, they know due to experience of other countries joining process.
Since the EU changed some joining criteria due to the financial crisis in 2008, part of the accession criteria are = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently = this is ONE of many criteria, why the UK can't even APPLY for EU membership at the moment...
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@mrdarklight
Renewables are called that, because wind, sun, water are there most of the time, and as written before, hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
When 27 countries/EU, with their 450 million citizens plus the USA with another 350 million citizens are going green, one would think, that they're knowing, what they're doing 😊😎
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@emersonmsd
Well, ALL European/UK included, reduced their armies/military equipment/troops, by about 70ish % after the wall came down, thinking, that we're surrounded by friends...as we see now = we're not..
BUT, looking at the NATO maneuvers in 2023/2024, right now = Steadfast Defender 2024 with 90.000 troops (January 2024- May 31st 2024) it's going pretty smooth..
And European/UK included military are ramping up their equipment etc again...Will take some years, but it's on the way ...
Rheinmetall is building a production plant in Lower Saxony/Germany as well as in Ukraine...
NATO troops =
USA = 1,35 million troops
EU27, EFTA, UK, Turkiye = 2 million troops 💪 😊
And that are the active troops only...
Think positive 😊
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Und wie bitte soll dann "der Staat= wir Bürger", die benötigte Infrastruktur finanzieren = Straßen, Schulen, sämtliche öffentlichen Gebäude, Verwaltung, Polizei, etc, etc...
Ohne gute Steuereinnahmen würde es dann hier ähnlich aussehen wie in div Staaten, wo gar nichts mehr funktioniert... keine Wasser-und Stromversorgung, keine Straßen, Schulen...
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Oh dear...
All Barnier offered at the Brexit negotiations was = EFTA membership = where it's possible, to stay in the EUs SM/EEA and CU...
But UKs negotiators were refusing that option, because, as EFTA member = each member has to pay the membership fee, FOM is included, and all EU rules have to be followed without "sitting at the table"....THAT wasn't wanted by UKs gvt, as they thought, that UK gets EUs membership benefits = for free 😂
The EEA = ISN'T an "agreement", but the EUs = European Economic Area = the EUs Single Market, it's the CORE of the EU = therefor is highly protected !!
The British exceptionlism is huge again here...
All what's "on offer" for the UK, is = full EU membership !!
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...
About ALL needed JOINING EUs criteria PLEASE LOOK UP ABOUT =
article 49 TEU
Btw, whatever was on offer at the Brexit negotiations = it was on offer FOR A LEAVING EU MEMBER STATE = now UK is a 3rd country = 3rd country rules apply = if UK wants to join the EU27 again = it has to start from the scratch, like all other 3rd countries !!
Our club, our rules !!
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@annaredding Yes, my dear Polish neighbour(as I'm German 😉), Germany is the fourth largest military supplier, listed at statista, and before you getting upset again, Poland is THIRD, listed at statista. What makes me really sad about this is, instead of doing a quick "fact check", you prefered to do the usual "German bashing/ blaming", instead of using the source, we're all using here, the Inet. But anyway, have a nice day with greetings to Poland from Germany 😉
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@ST Wrong! Just 24.9 % of one of the smallest terminals at Hamburg ports.
Therefor Cosco doesn't have a say about management/ decisions/ politics at Hamburg ports. Btw, it's a common issue, that huge shippings companies are buying parts of terminals in ports, like MSC, Maersk, DFDS or others.
China/ Cosco has also bought terminals at Rotterdam, Antwerp, LeHavre, Bilbao, Valencia, Pyreaus and 10 other EU ports and all over the world.
Get informed before posting.
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@aaronwinegar9724
Yes, the EU is a peace project..which the UK/and most of its people, the Brits, never really appreciated, but saw it as a trading block only.
You might think, that everything I wrote, is "from the view of a EU citizen only", you're wrong.
Why?
Because I only wrote facts, ALL available at the EUs Commission site...where the "access criteria/joining procedure" are all openly readable, even the treaties, the UK has with the EU are readable there...
As I also mentioned the "statements done by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen", they were on TV/media over here, because...
...opposit to the UKs media, where "the EU" exists only, when UKs politicians/or media are doing the usual "EU bashing" by blaming it, when UKs national politics went wrong, but NOT to show the advantages of the EU....
...while over here in the EU member states "the EU" is visible daily, on TV/Inet, statements are done/published regular by EUs spokesmen/negotiators (ahh, like the ones about the UK/Brexit related issues 😎), the EUs Parliament, when having important issues to discuss/debate, it's transmitted on TV/Inet, including subtitles... therefor us EU citizens are pretty well up to date about "EU issues"....😊
Like today is a debate about "EUs sanctions against Russia/status quo/effects of it, etc 😊
Again, when Barnier stated "the EUs doors are always open for the UK to join the EU again.....UNDER THE KNOWN CONDITIONS ", the UKs "Remainers" tend to "overlook" the second part of his statement, same as they overlook permanently, THAT IT'S UP TO THE EU27, to decide, which country can join the EU and when, but NOT the UK.
The mentioned CONDITIONS I've written down already, including the estimated time needed for joining the EU (GOES FOR ANY 3RD COUNTRY)....15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria...etc...
As another two years are going by until the next GE will happen, the Tory's will probably do much more damage to the UK and will move away even more from the Copenhagen Criteria... which will make it even more difficult...So put those years on top of the 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria....
But, you'll find out...
It also would be a good idea, that the UK finally implements all those treaties properly, which it signed on free will with the EU/the TCA and NIP/Windsor agreement, instead of demanding already opt outs before even being a EU member.
The very British exceptionlism is showing up again..."you/EU need us more than we/UK need you 😒
Again, Brexit/UK isn't even a subject anymore over here in the EU27... last news were "when the Triathlon was on in the UK, where those poor athlets had to swim in British sh£t".
Why are these people here on this channel?
Because most of us are involved with Brexsh£t, one way or the other... having family/friends in the UK, or being a Brit themselfs, living over here in the EU...
My London born spouse and I have been to the UK last in 2016, as my spouse stated "no need to go there"... says it all ...
Please look up at the EUs Commission site...
Or you just type in "criteria for joining the EU"... and ALL needed infos pop up... sooo easy it is, but, it looks like, that most of Brits prefer endless discussions, about "what the EU have to change to benefit the UKs demands" 😳😒
All the best to you with greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@indricotherium4802
Yes, I know, as I'm a EU citizen myself....living in the EU27 !!
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment = a national debt of max 55 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently..
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
EVERY EU member state has the right to veto the UK joining the EU, one veto is enough to stop the whole process of joining the EU.
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
It's about €2,33 per month/head of us 450ish million EU citizens to "compensate" the loss of the UKs EU membership fee, it's affordable 😎
The UK had its "Brit bargain " since Thatcher, and was one of those EU member states, which was demanding opt outs virtually all the time, while being EU member state...up to the last minute...like when Cameron spoke with the EUs negotiators, demanding to stop FOM, but for Continental EUropeans only, not though for the Brits, while "threatening" the EUs negotiators with a Brexit referendum at the same time !! 😂
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@indricotherium4802 NO.
After the he financial crisis in 2008 the EU27 have changed some joining criteria, like the "max national debt" an applying country must have...
All those criteria/facts, I've stated, had been parts either of the EUs joining criteria/ALL available at the EUs Commission site, or were statements given by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since Brexit happened.
Again = the UK's chance, to "join the EU in a fast track process" is NOT possible...
The EUs joining process aren't negotiations, but it goes like that =
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if not done properly, joining process stops instantly.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs for any country in the world, not even for Ukraine being at war, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy !!
The UK is moving away from fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria at the moment...
EUs joining criteria =
article 49 TEU
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@indricotherium4802
Oh dear... it doesn't matter really, if the UK is positionened on the Continent or not, the outcome would be the same = Brexit is no issue anymore over here in the EU27, not in the media, nor within the people...apart from those few, which are having family or friends in the UK...as Brexit was 4 years ago, the referendum happened 8 years ago... 🙄
The EUs joining criteria are visible at the EUs Commission site
And again, it might be of a benefit for the UK, to join the EU again...but still doesn't change the facts, that the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment..
And to call a EUropean citizen, living in the EU27 a "Brexiteer" is quite 😂
Greetings 🖐
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@herbh7893
So ziemlich alles: die Britische Automobilindustrie ist auf dem Niveau von 1958, Britische Landwirtschaft und Fischerei ist mehr oder weniger nicht mehr existent (sh Doku: Brexit and the Fishermen), der NHS (Britische Gesundheitsversorgung) ist fast am Ende, Wartezeiten für OPs ca 5 Jahre, Wartezeiten für Krankenwagen bis zu 15 Std (Notfälle!!), die Britische Regierung "empfiehlt" deshalb, sich ein Taxi zu nehmen, auch im Falle eines Herzinfarkts, Schlaganfalls oder Unfällen.
Es wurden "Tafeln" in den Krankenhäusern eingerichtet, damit die Krankenschwestern etc zu essen haben, usw, usf...
Wir haben Freunde in England und sind deshalb auf dem neuesten Stand.
Ach so: Brexit bedingt (weil die EU Menschenrechte etc nicht mehr gelten), hat die Britische Regierung div. Gesetze etc abgeschafft bzw "aufgweicht", z.B. Schutz von Arbeitnehmern, Umweltschutz, Banken Regulierungen, zur Zeit wird gerade das Recht auf Demonstration nochmals eingeschränkt/ verschärft.
Könnte endlos weiterschreiben ...
Seit Anfang letzten Jahres dürfen lt Beschluss der Britischen Regierung sämtliche Abwässer ungefiltert/ ungeklärt in alle Britischen Gewässer eingeleitet werden... im letzten Sommer mussten deshalb viele Küstenstrände gesperrt werden wegen " Gesundheitsgefährdender Verschmutzung.
Und die paar Fischer, die in Küstennähe Muscheln fischen (die Briten lieben Herzmuscheln sehr), mussten diese Fänge wieder vernichten, ebenfalls wegen Gesundheitsgefährdung.
Läuft "super" da drüben :-((
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@tomorrowland2684 I don't know in which country you're living in, but the things, the other guy wrote, well ...
First of all, nobody should use a hospital as an alternative to a GP, as you're just blocking the AE with banal issues, which could have been sortet at your GP.
And it's a duty for every doctor in Germany to offer once a week an "open consultation", where no appointment is needed, you just might have to wait some hours, but you could see any doctor in one week.
For emergencies: if you tell the doctors receptionists already on the phone about your problem, and it's urgent, they would ask you to come by straight away.
Alltogether I can say, the German health system is still very good equipped in comparison to other countries, including the costs of all extras (teeth, hearing aid, wheel chairs etc, physio therapy and lots of others) or extremly expensive medication, which gets paid from each of the German health insurances as well.
Nothing really to complain about.
At the moment are just to many of staff (hospitals/doctors) ill and the raised energy prices aren't helpfull either.
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@tomorrowland2684 OK 😉
The other guy, you answered to, was talking about hospitals only, the same subject as the DW report.
Over here in Germany the system is different, doctors are "spread" all over the country, you have free choice of every doctor and hospitals ate really and only for emergencies, as written before.
Doctors are available Mo- Fr, the weekends and evenings/ nights get covered by the so called "emergency doctors", which will come to your home or wherever you are, but again: for emergencies only, not for having a cold etc 😉
But as you stated, that you're living in Germany since 9 years, I would think you would know about the difference ...
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@lhmsc Ok 😉
But when you're living here for so many years you shouldn't mix up GP with hospitals/ clinics, as that was the subject of the DW report only.
Therefor I was refering to you about GP against hospitals.
That GPs are not open 24/7 is everywhere the case, as I wouldn't know any country in the world, where doctors have the same opening times as hospitals.
I guess, you also don't work 24/7, not even as a doctor at a hospital.
I don't know, how doctors are "spread" in Thuringia, if you're living in a city/town or small village. But, and that's for the whole of Germany, all doctors are in duty, to have once a week a
"open consultation".
And I didn't "down size" other peoples (yours) problems with doctors, but I have to admit, the way you discribing it, sounded a bit "over done", I'm sorry to say.
Anyway, I wish you all the best, and good luck with the "open consultation", it's worth trying it.
Btw, one of my nephews is a male intense care nurse, and we talk about the German health care system quite regular.
I don't know, how it's in Brazil, if it's better or worst ...
All the best to you with lots of health and greetings to Thuringia
from Bremen 😉
Add on: as written before, the monthly fee you're paying for your health insurance has got nothing to do with the region you're living in, as it's German wide a 7,3 % of your monthly salary.... the other 7,3 % get paid by your employer.
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Opposit to the Brits, which do bugger all, but just take it, eventhough in 2022 the gvt had changed the law of "separation of powers " to "the PM can dissolve the Parliament on his own", where 34 % can get a majority of 80 seats in Parliament...the German people are going onto the streets, to show, that they are there and are the majority 😊
Forgot to say, opposit to the crappy FPTP voting system the UK has, Germany (like all other EU member states and the EUs Parliament) have the PR voting system, therefor there is a majority of 80ish %, which don't vote the AfD 😊
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@effexon Yeah, I know. But, as terrible this war is, it's like a "fast track/ booster" for "going green" in the EU27. Looks like, as if us humans need some pressure sometimes, to get important things, like going green, done.
If you're interested, look up please for the "green hydrogen coast line", which is a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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@tt-ew7rx OK.
Well, there were "powers" to make the UK leave ...as there was a documentary done by Tom Costello, an US investigativ journalist, who did research in the UK... there were these people "pulling the strings behind the curtains", Richard Tice, Alan Banks, the guy from JCB, Cambridge analytica and various other right wing think tanks in UK, Steve Bannon (ex consultant of Trump and ex boss of Breitbart), and various others...
Unfortunately this documentary can't be played in the UK, as we've tried various times, but it doesn't play...
With Ukraine joining the EU, there won't be any "fast track" or other, because (also stated by various EU spokesmen), the EU has the same military alliance agreement as Nato has, therefor no country "being at war, or having other tensions with other countries or being partly occupied" can join the EU nor Nato.
A candidate for EU membership has to have a stabile enough economy/democracy/no corruption etc... Ukraine is nowhere near those needed criteria...same as before the war started...
About Ukrainian grain.... can't be sold into the EU, because Ukrainian farmers are still using pesticides, which aren't allowed in the EU anymore.
That grain, which ended up in Poland, was done due corruption, Poland was in duty to "monitor/guard" the grain transport via Poland towards EU ports...
On top of that: there are elections coming up in Poland this year October... the ruling PIS party urgently needs more "people, which elect them", because they are "on the edge of loosing", farmers tend to vote conservative...so "make a big fuzz about that issue"...
And who knows, what Poo-tin is doing, to "destabilise" the EU
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@colinpenaluna9268
All car manufacturers are in transition going green, therefor the infrastructure of their production plants has to be changed (like BMW in Oxford etc), while still going on building combustion engine cars... all car manufacturers are also working on advanced EVs batteries, like without Lithium etc.
An EV needs much less parts for the motor, combustion engine has about 1.400 parts, while an EV has about 200 parts only... all not that easy, but possible with a lot of efford... less parts for the motor includes less need of suppliers, less workforce, less car repair shops etc...
There is a "run" on "who is first" on those "new" EVs markets, world wide... China is pushing with huge subsidies to keep the prices the lowest to take over in the world, this is why the US and EU have "installed" a "package" of money/subsidies as well...
The EU27 is also planning, to "install" some Tarifs for Chinese EVs, because of "distortion of competition"...
You were asking "why is the car market not booming", well, most people are still "waiting" for better infrastructure/charging points, lower prices, longer driving distances for EVs, as it's "still" a technology in its "toddler years"... Most people also still have their combustion engine cars, which are doing fine...
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@visionmodernclassics Ok, soweit, so gut 👍
Ich kann lediglich über Erfahrungswerte berichten: E-Auto: zu kalte Temperaturen, die "Ladung/Reichweite" reduziert sich je nach Marke ziemlich stark, zu heisse Aussentemperaturen (Sommer 2018, ca 38°C), die Akkus wollten/konnten nicht laden, da Aussentemperaturen zu hoch.
Wasserstoffauto: doppelte Reichweite, keine Probleme egal bei welcher Aussentemperatur.
Gut ausgebautes Tankstellennetz, ausbaubar auch für Wasserstoff, trotz der 700 bar.
Übrigens, mal als Beispiel Berlin: fast alle gemeldeten PKW parken auf der Straße, folglich wäre es nur sinnvoll, wenn JEDER öffentliche Parkplatz zeitgleich eine E-Ladesäule erhält, immer mit dem selben Ladesystem, zahlbar mit Karte/App, aber nicht pro Ladesäule anderes Zahl- und/ oder Ladesystem.
Übrigens, schau mal bitte unter "Faun Group" die fahren bereits problemlos seit Jahren mit Wasserstoff. Und ...
Frohes Neues Jahr 😉
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@emm_arr
The EU27 are a ever evolving and developing peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht treaty in 1992.
The treaty of Rome = set up the EEC bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services, capital.
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site book shop.
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 😊
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@andrewpienaar4522 The new build LNG terminal is convertable to hydrogen, that was stated various times by Federal Minister Habeck and State President of Lower Saxony Weil (where this terminal is located), therefor I would think, that those "guys" are knowing, what they're talking about.
Btw:
the EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have this project called "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and the Gvts.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills or others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass , paper etc.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
All along the coast lines electrolyseurs ( wind to power) are under construction.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks/ vehicles as well as the Faun Group. Those trucks are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
Some days ago Bremerhaven public transport started the service of various green hydrogen powered busses.
BASF received various millions of Euros from the German Gvt to built its own electrolyseur.
It's all on the way .....
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@GammonBrexitNews Yes.
When being a EU member, the check ups were done anywhere at the EUs outside border, and then could easily and frictionless distributed anywhere within the SM.
Now (just goes for the UK), if a container or whatever is adressed to go to the UK, the EU border/customs authorities will
put a "seal" onto it, without checking it, but to make sure, that it doesn't end up "unchecked" anywhere in the SM.
When containerships are coming from lets say, Shanghai, they stop in Bremerhaven, get unloaded, some containers go onto smaller containerships towards the UK, all unchecked, but "sealed".
Unfortunately the UKs Gvt didn't bother to install proper border police/customs check ups...
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@Alien-mu7ex
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steigt auf die Produktion von grünem Stahl um, wie auch die anderen Europäischen Stahlwerke,
Airbus Bremen und die Ariane Group space technologies Bremen entwickeln gerade einen Airbus, der mit grünem Wasserstoff angetrieben wird, 2035 soll es fertig sein..
In 2022 wurden die Weltweit ersten 14 Wasserstoff betriebenen Züge (Alstom) in Niedersachsen in Betrieb genommen..
Die Betriebe produzieren ihren eigenen grünen Wasserstoff...
Bitte mal schauen unter "clean hydrogen coast line", ein Projekt der Niederlande, Dänemark und Deutschland, Fraunhofer Institut Bremerhaven ist auch dabei...
Die EU27, EFTA, USA und zehn weitere Länder weltweit = 42 Länder mit ca 1 MILLIARDE Menschen = werden "grün" = das Ziel ist es, bis 2035-2045 sämtliche fossilen Energien (Öl, Kohle, Erdgas) durch grünen Wasserstoff zu ersetzen...
Man könnte meinen, das 42 Länder mit ca 1 Milliarde Menschen wissen, was sie tun 😊
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@racistncrazy
Sure, not only Germany will collapse, same goes for the EU27 = collapsing again since decades at any minute 😂🙄
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which will build a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts.
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received € 1,3 billion EU subsidies to build their own electrolyseurs/ windmills and arc furnaces, to produce green steel in the near future.
2022 the World wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany.
Microsoft will invest €3,2 billion, to build a data center for AI in the Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia/Germany, ready in 2026
Greetings from the EU27/Germany 🖐
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@jonathanbradshaw2575
They're EFTA member states, and stated already years ago, that "they would veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a trouble maker in their club".
Apart from, that all 4 EFTA member states have about 16ish million people living there, the UK has about 67ish million people, that would outbalance the EFTA members, which isn't wanted !!
No political circumstances are changing the EUs joining criteria ...
The UK has the TCA with the EU27, and it would be very nice, if the UK would finally implement those deals properly, it signed with the EU27 5 years ago !!
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@jonathanbradshaw2575
Well, I have an "issue" with the UK, because half of my family are British living in England, of which half of them voted for Brexit !!
My London born spouse and I are living in the EU27 and tried our best to inform our British family and friends about the EU, how it works and what it's for...but they voted for it anyway...
About "Europe" = you're still living in Europe, as that is a Continent with 47 countries, of which 27 are EU member states, another 4 are EFTA members, 9 have the status as a candidate for EU membership, and another 7 are 3rd countries, of which one of them is the UK.
The EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union of 27 independent and souvereign countries with their 450ish million citizens.
For EVERY 3rd country, which would like to join the EU the same rules apply = EUs joining criteria article 49 TEU.
No political circumstances will change those EUs joining criteria !!
The EU27 changed some joining criteria due to the financial crisis in 2008, hence 3rd countries need to have a national debt of max < 60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently.
That alone will take ages to reduce...
Our club, our rules !!
If a country, which would like to join the EU doesn't like those rules, which are known upfront, well, then it should stay out of that club...
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@MichaelBrown-yj9kj
Well, at the same time, when the Brexit negotiations started, the EU and Switzerland did their usual "negotiations" again, as Switzerland has a "special EFTA deal", which includes about 100+ Single treaties, which, whenever the EU is changing/updating any of its rules/laws, have to be adjusted with Switzerland.
Last time it didn't work out very well, because Switzerland started to "cherry pick", therefor the EU negotiators put that issue "on hold", but more important: the EU spokesmen stated, that for the future there will be only two options available, either full EU membership or EFTA membership, but no more "treaties" like Switzerland has, because of "too much hassle".
About EFTA: Norway stated various times, that it'll veto the UK/GB joining the EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
In fact the only way for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria first, if none of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU again, only then the negotiations with the EU would start, by "working through" the 35 chapters, which could take decades.
For ALL NEW EU members (ex members, like the UK, included) it will be mandatory to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the economy of that EU member state is stabile enough.
No "fast tracks", no exceptions for any country in the world as stated recently by the EU Commission.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@MichaelBrown-yj9kj
Hmmm, THAT is "cherry picking par excellence".
Because "the UK" doesn't like/agree to the options available, it wants to "create" another option... with "bits and pieces" from EFTA and EU membership.
Won't work, as written before: two options are available, EFTA membership or EU membership, that's it...
Tell me, WHY should 27 EU member states plus 3 EFTA member states with about 465 million people living there "bend" to a not very trustworthy country/UK, which hasn't even implemented any of the treaties it signed on free will with the EU after leaving the EU, also on free will, why should those 31 countries bother about the UKs
"selfimplemented Brexit desaster".
Don't get me wrong, I'm very sorry for all of those, which didn't want this, for the others: not.
My London born spouse had to get dual citizenship because of Brexit. Half of our family and friends are living in England, but ... the British people have to sort "their sh£t" from within, better education about the EU, how it works and what it's for is urgently needed, before anybody over there should even think about "joining the EU/EFTA"...
Why?
Because "the EU27" wouldn't want a "Brexit 2.0" at the next British GE ... the EU isn't a "revolving door", but a union of 27 souvereign and independent member states and their citizens.
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong"
THAT is "the EU27" 😊
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@Conclusius68
Problem about this subject is, that's not even on the table over here in the EU.... since these 12 EUs citizens from France/Germany had a "brainstorming" about this subject "two tiered EU", which has been on the table last in 2013, and never again since...
not to forget, Macron is the French PM and DOESN'T speak for the EU, like Guy Verhofstadt, brilliant MEP, but when holding a speech at "re-joining marches" in the UK, he is speaking NOT in the name of the EU, but as a PRIVATE person only.
Other problem here is, that it seems, that many people/Brits here still don't seem to understand, how the EU works.... the SM is the core/heart of the EU and therefor highly protected....
If the EU would "open its arms" and invite so called "associated/two tiered none EU members/3rd countries" to be IN THE SM, THAT would be the end of the EU, and therefor it's obsolet, to even think "hypothetically" about this not even existing option.
It still goes like this "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member".
Add on: as stated by various EU spokesmen/negotiators "it will take Ukraine minimum 10-15 years AFTER war, before it would be able to join EU".... btw, the Ukrainian grain can't be sold into the EU recently, because Ukrainian farmers are still using pesticides, which aren't allowed in the EU anymore. The grain, which had been sold "black" into the Polish market, was possible only because of corruption.
Ukraine biggest market for grain still is Africa....
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@JanBruunAndersen ☺️
Infact, in Germany it's called "Göteborg" and "Kopenhagen", btw, the term "haven" is Lower-Saxon language, therefor Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven etc...
About the term "Deutschland" = I just responded to your statement, "that some guy in the medieval times muddled up the term"...
Germany is that country, with the most different names, depending, which ancient tribes were neighbours of them, like =
the "Alemannen", todays federal state of Baden-Württemberg, bordering with France, this is, why the French calling us "Allemagne"...etc...
Greetings to Danmark from Bremen 🍻👋
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@WaterShowsProd 😊
Well, the ancient Saxons were living in todays federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
Todays federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes = the Sorbic people.
The territories of the ancient Saxons didn't have "sound shift" like the rest of todays Germany, hence it never "discarded" the gender, since it never existed in the Lower-Saxon language 😊
When my English sister in law visited us over here in Bremen, one of the shop had a sign outside the shop "wi hept open"
pronounced like "ve hapt open"
= we are (have) open, she looked quite confused when I read it out to her 😁
Sett yi daal, wullt yi een Koffie or
(sit you down, want/would you (like) a Coffee or)
een Tee or wullt yi wat anners
(a Tee or want/would you (like) what else)
drinken?
(drink?).
Those sentences above might sound confusing to you, but when spoken and pronounced properly, you can here the simularity 😊
Just writing it here without hearing it sets limits, unfortunately...
My London born spouse and people speaking high German only = don't understand Lower-Saxon language, but the Dutch living at the two Holland regions can easily chat with people from north-west Germany when speaking Lower-Saxon language 😁
And reading Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish is easy as well ...probably all related to the times of the Hanseatic League...as Lower-Saxon language was the official language at that time...
Btw, todays English term "Welsh" origins from the ancient Saxons, as they were calling ALL tribes living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh", and the meaning is "the other ones, the strangers, the ones from abroad".
Knowing, that the English get called "sassenachs", even there you're using Lower-Saxon language, as Sassen = Saxons.
Hence = Lower Saxony = Neddersassen...
"dd" = "th" =
Netherlands = Lowlands 😁
And Dutch = well, you're actually calling the Dutch = German...
It origins from the ancient term "Thiutisk = us people", which is what the ancient tribes living in todays Germany were calling themselves, and it evolved over the last 2.000ish years to = tuisk, tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch 😂
Greetings to Cymru from Bremen 😊🍻
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@WaterShowsProd 😊
No, high German and Lower-Saxon have the same roots = Indogermanic, but developed differently due to the sound shift, which happened all over Germany at 375/376, when the Huns arrived, not though in the regions, where the ancient Saxons used to live = as there the "Continental transmigration" didn't happen, when looking at a map, the people simply did a "short cut", moving rather south in a "straight line", considering the circumstances ...
I've looked up about the German language, and Wikipedia has a very good description about it in English 😊 Very recommendable !
Btw, in Germany 5 languages get spoken =
high German/the official language !!
Lower-Saxon language/spoken all along the north sea coast/Baltic Sea coast lines
Sorbic = spoken in some east parts of Germany /ex territories of the ancient Slavic tribes/Sorbic people
Bavarian = Bavaria
All of those languages have their regional dialects as well, like all languages have that.
Wow, learning Asian languages sounds tough, as that includes learning the different writing as well ...
I wish you all the best with very foggy greetings from Bremen 👋 🍻
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@FimbulWinter-f6c NO.
Neither NATO nor USA have anything to do with the EU27 🙄
Please look up for Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920s.
Robert Schuman was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
His book "for Europe" is available at the EUs Commission site book shop.
Please look up for Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU = the "Schuman plan".
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the treaty of Rome in 1957 and got confirmed again at the Maastricht treaty in 1992.
The treaty of Rome = set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital.
"United in diversity, all for one, one for all, together we're strong", THAT are the EU27 😊
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Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when.
The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST.
Right now there are various EUs member states, which wouldn't even take UKs application form.
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
Some weeks ago the EUs Commission stated/analogous "that the EU is very happy with the TCA, that it's very balanced for BOTH sides, and that the Commission is taking care of further implementation of the TCA at the REVIEW coming up".
The EUs Commission started an infringement procedure against the UK recently, as it still hasn't implemented properly any of the deals, it signed with the EU27.
Starmer got informed about that subject, when visiting the EU27.
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@dulcamarabuffo 🙄
The facts are = the recent gvt, where the Greens are part off, were demanding exactly that = changing the "debt brake", to boost German economy and infrastructure plus an extra huge budget for the German army because of the ongoing situations..
To do so a two third majority is needed at the German Parliament, so the recent gvt asked Merz to support that on behalf for the better of the country !!
Merz denied that for a couple of years, while stating, that there isn't any extra money needed, hence it should be taken out of the running household, which he also used at the elections up to the elections happened.
The recent gvt broke up due to those massive money issues...and now he wants the Greens to sign for those huge amounts of €, without letting anybody know, what those € billions will be used for. That's what the Greens are asking for, as they don't want to sign a "blanco cheque" !!
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@Curryking32000
Well, as I have in England living English family and friends, I know pretty well, how bad it's going over there...
8 million people on the waiting list for NHS, crumbling raac buildings, potholes in the roads, disappearing NHS converting into a private health system US style, food banks for hospital staff at hospitals, stripped down protection of labourship, environment, banking, striking and demonstrating rights, sewage in all British waters, heat or eat issues, etc...
Germany is a rich country, with an economical "dent" since some months, and in transition going green, like all of the 27 EU member states... 😊
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@Curryking32000
As I've written before, Germany/a rich country, is in transition going green, this "mess as you write", its in only, because those €60 billion/which is the video about, had been "declared" wrong for the "states household" (those € 60 billion are a "left over from the Covid fund and got "moved" to the "going green transition fund") if it gets declared properly = for the needed infrastructure etc/going green, to support industry and economy, then it's solved...
ALL of that got explained in the video, which you obviously haven't watched 🤨
Btw, the USA have that issue/money,/states househould confirming, twice a year, and over there the whole country is blocked by the US senate, because even the civil servants/soldiers/police etc don't get their wages for months...
...while in Germany all payments are going as usual...
...but nobody thinks, the "USA are collapsing"....like it seems to be the wish of lots of Brits/"Germany collapsing"...
Btw, Germany is the worlds fourth largest economy, the worlds third largest export nation, the EUs largest economy...
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA, outlook stable 😊
Therefor have a nice cup of tea and rather bother about your own country, which isn't really in good conditions ....due to Brexit...and 13 years "Tory austerity"...
Standard of living over here in the EU27/Germany is well above the living standards in the UK...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@ERG173 OK.
But the EU27 are a pragmatic, rule based organisation/union, hence the UK has to follow EUs joining criteria article 49 TEU fully, this time without any opt outs/exceptions etc, including paying the full EUs membership fee this time...
The UK never paid its full membership fee due to the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher, instead it paid about one third of it only /not though those "£ 350 million " per week..
Main issue will be to fulfill the needed applying criteria, like a national debt of max 55-60 %, the UKs national debt is at 101,2 % recently...that will take ages to reduce it to the needed figures..
As it's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy...
The EU27 changed some joining criteria due to the financial crisis in 2008, hence those "national debt criteria"..
It'll be a very long way back for the UK, this is why Starmer stated "not in his lifetime", as he is 62, he knows about the issues..
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@kgbgb3663
Well, Frisian language same as Lower-Saxon language, both are the roots (partly) of todays English...and like all languages, they have their regional dialects as well...
As I'm speaking Lower-Saxon language, I see lots of simularities to todays English...
The words are very simular, or even the same, but get pronounced different, like
Lower-Saxon = English
he,se,mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat/wat = that/what
de = the (no der, die, das)
us = us
as = as
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
open = open
modder = mother "dd" = "th "
beer = beer
klock tein = ten o'clock
etc, etc...
While Dutch people from around Groningen would understand Lower-Saxon language, English people won't get a word due to the very different pronounciation 😅
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@kgbgb3663 😊
Well, going through all those different languages, just to learn high German, would be quite a challenge...
Difference is, that high German language has
"the = der, die, das"
.......= male, female, neutral
best thing to learn that is straight away, and not "around the corner" by learning other languages first, which might be simular...could get a bit confusing 😊
Have a nice weekend with greetings from Bremen 👋
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Hungary has been stripping down various rights/laws, like the protection of human rights/womens rights, independent justice, free speech/press etc, therefor Hungary doesn't receives its EU subsidies anymore until its going allong with the Copenhagen Criteria/human rights etc again....
Therefor Orban is using his one voice veto right to block every EUs decision to be made, which every EU member state has, because he tries to blackmail the EU, when the "one voice decisions" have to be done. . Orban wants "his money/EU subsidies" if not = he's blocking the EU27...the EUs law allows, to withdraw a countries "veto/voice", in case of getting/being antidemocratic/corrupt or other...
The EU26 have been declared Hungary to be a "none fully democracy" anymore ...
Btw, the EU27 just have put up € ONE TRILLION for "going green"...
"Red tape" doesn't exiist within the EUs SM/EEA, as that is the meaning of the EUs SM/EEA, but there is lots of red tape for 3rd countries, like the UK is now 😂
Thanks for Brexiting with greetings from the EU27 👋
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@SHANECatLovingGenXHistorian
You are aware, that lots of todays technology was invented by Germans?
Telephone (yes), first computer (Konrad Zuse), x-ray (Roentgen), fridge (Linde), TV (black/white/colour), jet engine/rockets, nuclear power, coffee filter (Mrs. Melitta),
Otto Motor (Mr. Otto), Diesel Motor (Mr. Diesel), cars (Daimler/Benz), electric car (Porsche), first telegraph cable Europe/USA (Siemens), book printing (Gutenberg), discovering the TBC and developing the vaccine (Robert Koch) etc ....
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@aslammighty8835 About the language you (might be) correct, even though I wouldn't mind to learn a fourth language,as I see learning a new language always as a fortune/Bonus, whatever you want to name it.
But my point about solidarity was, that you were stating, that in Dubai you at least don't have to pay tax.
But over here, tax paying is solidarity, because a whole countries infrastructure gets build with tax money, including school systems, kinder gardens, and lots of various social projects etc.
Greetings from Germany 😉
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NO.
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts
Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven = hydrogen lab
Arcelor-Mittal Bremen steel mill and Saarstahl steel mill received €1,3 billion EU subsidies to build their own electrolyseurs/windmills and arc furnaces running on green hydrogen, to produce green steel in the near future
Since 2022 the worlds first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alstom) started their service in Lower Saxony/Germany
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
The EUs :"green deal" has a value of € ONE TRILLION for going green 😊
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@StoutProper Yes, and I've already had arguments with some of these here. Unfortunately, the international tenor regarding right-wing parties etc has changed quite a bit, not only in Germany, sh. Sweden, Italy, Hungary, UK/ GB, Poland, USA, Netherlands, France, Turkey, Russia, should I continue? To be honest, I don't understand why these "fascist sh*ts/ far right" are so popular again. Humans obviously have learned nothing from history. I find it more than worrying !!
Btw, being part of a family with six Nationalities (Belgian, British, Spanish, Italian, Polish, German) shows, that it is possible to live without hate.
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@gfys756
Uhhh, to compare dictators/Putler with democratic elected Presidents/Biden...is quite outbalanced...
Btw, the Russians were in Afghanistan first, and left a chaos, when they left...
Apart from, when the Nato/blue helmets and NGOs were in Afghanistan, to support the peace/calming down the situation, by building schools, hospitals, water supply, protection for women/girls, so they could go to schools/university/work/jobs...
BUT, when half of a countries population/men, don't go along with that, but instead supporting the Taliban, which were cowardly hiding in Pakistan or in the rural areas of Afghanistan for 20 years...
only when Nato/blue helmets/NGOs left, they crawled out of their holes....
and only six months after taking over Afghanistan again, Taliban are begging for money, food and medical aid at the evil western countries 😅 😎
A change of mindset has to come from within the people/country... therefor the Afghan people have to sort that issue themselfs...
Unfortunately there is not much hope, with the ongoing extrem anti women system, the Taliban and their male buddies have installed..
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@Jason-io9zg
The EU27/Germany are in transition going green, about 56% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water).
The EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
Various steel mills received millions of €/Euros to build their first electrolyseurs...
Please look up for the "clean hydrogen coast line ", a project run by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and gvts.
Forgot to say, lots of Germans have installed solar panels/photovoltaics on their houses, same goes for many companies...
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@ryanfraley7113
Errr...NO.... but those are the FACTS, which lots of REMAINERS
don't want/like to hear !!
This "very British attitude/call it exceptionlism", to think, that "the EU27" are waiting with open arms, to "take back/into the EU" the UK without following the EU rules... which are there for a reason !!.... is, as said before, the very British exceptionlism again....unfortunately as strong within the Remainers as well as within the Brexiteers... eventhough both are heading into a different direction...
ALL needed infos/criteria needed for "joining the EU" are available at the EUs Commission site...
BEFORE applying for EU membership again, it would be very helpfull and urgently needed, is to educate the British people about the EU, how it works and what it's for, that there is a democratic elected Parliament (with PR) with its MEPs working on behalf of the democratic elected EU27 member states Gvts and their 450ish million citizens.
That the EUs Council = the EUs member states Gvts and the democratic elected MEPs are deciding about ALL the EUs rules/laws etc...
And again, "joining the EU goes like that :
the UK has to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission), if NONE of the EU27 member states vetos the UK/GB joining the EU, only then the UK/GB would receive the status as a "candidate for EU membership", and then the 35 chapters (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission) have to be fulfilled/implemented properly (if not done properly, joining process stops instantly), which could take decades.
No exceptions, no cherry picking, no fast track, no opt outs, as stated by various EUs negotiators/spokesmen various times since years.
It's mandatory for ALL NEW EU member states, to join the Schengen area and adapt the €/Euro, as soon as the new EU member state has a stabile enough economy.
Again: the UK left the EU27 on its own will and is a 3rd country now, which has to follow 3rd country rules...like all the otver 109+ 3rd countries world wide...
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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@CynthiaKämmerer-b2b
Ist mir schon klar, hatte/habe Freunde in Sachsen, und Kollegen aus allen Teilen der ehemaligen DDR sowieso...
Die Systeme waren sehr unterschiedlich...Arbeitslosigkeit oder auch selber den Arbeitsplatz wechseln, aus den verschiedensten Gründen war im "Westen" nichts besonderes, sondern Alltag..
Das hat aber nichts mit "Respekt haben oder nicht" zu tun...
Viele DDR Marken sind auch den "Bach runter gegangen", weil keiner mehr "Ostprodukte" kaufen wollte, einerseits verständlich = mal was neues probieren, andererseits fatal für die Betriebe, die genau diese Produkte produziert haben..
Nicht zu vergessen, die damaligen Gesamtumstände mit der einhergehenden "Ungeduld," verständlicherweise...zB die Einführung der D Mark = alle Experten haben davor gewarnt, aber = der Großteil der Bevölkerung wollte sie unbedingt...
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@Gaspardini 🙄
Right now Germany is worlds third largest economy, inflation rate is 2,2 %, salaries raised 4 % MORE than inflation until now and btw, you're off topic all the time, as it originally is about =
Germany getting new military equipment for its army = PZH 2000, the most modern howitzer available...Germany ordered 10 of those = total cost € 184 million.
Btw, Germany is supporting Ukraine since 2014 , therefor is the second largest donor to Ukraine..
Same goes for Palestinians/Gaza, which gets supported by Germany with € 250 million per year...
Germany is worlds second largest donor for humanitarian aid as well....😊
As you had a rant about, "how bad it's going in Germany", I can tell you = thanks, we're doing fine 😁
This is the good thing about living in a rich country with ratings of AAA, outlook stable, national debt 66,3 %, it can take an "economical dent" without any issues, even all social benefits, pensions etc have been raising all the years, Germans are travelling more than ever, may be, you should visit, to get your facts straight 🥳
"It's known, that Germany is
rich, but the people are not" 🙄
Oh dear, don't know, where you're living, but the AVERAGE salary over here is € 3.500 per month...highest employment rate ever, btw = we're looking for skilled people = a gap of about 800.000 skilled/high skilled people needs to be covered 😎
Healthcare is fully included, for certain things one might have to pay € 10,- as a fee on top, no one gets bankrupt because of getting ill or having an accident...etc...
Again = thanks we're doing fine over here 🥳😁
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Since 2023 Germany is the worlds third largest economy 😅
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
Fitch affirms USA rating AA +
outlook stable
Germany's national debt 66,3 %
USA national debt 123,3 %
If only any of the commenters here had watched the video, then you would know, that it's about the self installed German "debt brake", which has pretty strict rules...
To change it, there is a two/third majority needed in Parliament, unfortunately the parties can't agree on that, as only half of them see, that investments into future technologies have to be done, while the other half doesn't want to change those rules..
It's complaining at a very high level 😅
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@GammonBrexitNews
As soon as a 3rd country citizen would leave the country he is working in with a working visa/permit (lets say Bulgaria), he would be a 3rd country citizen again in every other of the EU member states with full implementation of the 90/180 days rule, but NO FOM, no working permit.
FOM means, that any EU citizen can work/live in any of the 27 EU member states as long it's wanted, wherever it's wanted.
This is part of the "four freedoms" = free movement of goods, people, services, capital and is available only with EU membership, including membership of the SM...
Therefor NO single agreement/deal is possible with one or more EU member states to agree on FOM with the UK, as NO Single EU member state can agree on FOM with a third country/UK, nor will a 3rd country have access to the SM or FOM, as it's available for EU members.
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@whattheflyingfuck...
This is what was done all the time, didn't work.
They've even given those people a flight back home (for free) plus € 2.000 as a "new start" including education about how to run a business, all didn't help.
Why? Because in most of those countries, the way their culture is, they get treated as "failures/losers", sometimes get banned from their villages etc., when going back from the EU.
Why are you coming back from the EU, where everybody is making lots of money easily = that is the Image spread over there.
Therefor lots of them are sending photos over there, to "proof", that they've been successfull, with photos showing them in front of a posh car or other, result: more are coming, thinking, that they are going to make it as well....
It won't end.... no solution in sight...I'm afraid... 😔
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@mattjones1207
I can see your pain, but :
never ever 😅
You know, why he got refused?
Farage applied for German citizenship (his ex-wife and kids are German), when filling in the papers (lots of papers, knowing that, because my London born spouse had to get dual citizenship because of Brexit), he was cheating at the question "since when are you living in Germany "... he wrote in the adress of his ex- brother in law and wrote in wrong figures, obviously not knowing, that EVERY person, living in Germany, has to register latestly two weeks after moving into a new appartement etc at the local authorities (because of tax, which has to be paid, where one is living, not where one is working)....
Ahhh, of course he's never been registered anywhere in Germany AND on top of that, one has to live here for 5-8 years, before one can apply for citizenship, like in every other country as well 😊
He really isn't the "brightest candle on the cake", as we're saying over here 😅
I don't know though, if he's banned to visit Germany as a tourist, but getting citizenship is banned on him for years 🤣
Therefor I'm sorry, that Germany can't help you in this case...
Have a nice day with greetings 😚🖐
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BASF Ludwigshafen/headquarter, 39.000 people are working there, 700 have lost their jobs...due to the decision, to move tiny parts of the production plant to China...
Btw, BASF has the same consumption of energy per year than the whole of Switzerland.
It was BASF making these nat gas deals with Russia, building infrastructure, pipelines towards Sibiria etc, getting its nat gas from Russia only, ignoring the warnings, and now its complaining....that's called bad management...
...going to China now will end up the same as with Russia....
Btw, it's a usual issue for International companies to spread out their production plants over various countries world wide...
Like Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany.
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt, and one in Spain or Portugal.
Would you think, that all of these companies are "relocating/closing" their original production plants in their home countries?
NO 😂
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@remoanersrknts6736
Lets get some facts straight here...
the free trade deal with the USA was negotiated for 8 years, BUT, the US were demanding, that "chloride chicken, hormon boosted beef, gen manipulated food (undeclared on top of that) should be allowed to come into the EUs SM, but even worst was, that the US was demanding, to allow so called "private courts", to "sort" US issues, like any US company could claim billions of €, in case the EU would change rules/laws etc, and that US company "would/might have losses of profit, even if that product didn't exist yet...THAT would have been a never ending "claiming for money all over the EU by any US company", THIS is why the EUs negotiators stopped all negotiations and said "thank you, but no".
If you Brits would like that sort of deal, you're very welcome... 😅
About Brazil: the EU are in negotiations about a "free trade deal" with Mercosur", BUT, again, those countries don't want to put "protection for their native people in that, nor protection of environment, labourship etc... therefor... time will show...
Since 2018 the EU is in negotiations about a free trade deal with Australia... still ongoing... in the meanwhile the free trade deal with NZ is signed.
Negotiations with trading partners are NEVER done in short time... only the British negotiators are doing so, simply because of economical desperation 😅😎
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@emm_arr
Well, Germany is one of the SIX EUs founder members, Copenhagen Criteria were introduced in 1992/Maastricht Treaty...Not comparable at all anymore...
Btw, Robert Schuman/French Minister/PM, and Friedrich Ebert/first President of the Weimar Republic, were meeting already in the 1920s, to talk about peace and the EUropean Union, unfortunately Friedrich Ebert died unexpected due to a rupture of the appendix in 1925.
Hindenburg followed him as the President of the Weimar Republic, talks about a EUropean Union stopped...the rest is history...
All I can say = Starmer is 62, and his statement, that UK won't join in his lifetime...simply due to EUs joining criteria and UKs recent status quo..
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@emm_arr NO.
This is one of the myths within the UK, neither it is a "founder member", nor did Thatcher "create" the EUs SM or Churchill was "part of the founding" ..
.sorry..instead the UK was begging for 11 years, until it was allowed to join the...EU...
Because = the EU27 are a EVER EVOLVING AND DEVELOPING peace project based on solidarity and respect for all EUropean member states with its SM/EEA included to benefit its 450ish million citizens and its member states.
ALL of what the EU27 are today, was already part of the "Schuman plan", and got confirmed again at the Treaty of Rome in 1957, and got confirmed again at the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
The "Schuman plan" was created by Jean Monnet, the other "architect" of the EU.
Robert Schuman, the "father of Europe", born in Luxembourg (at that time German, later French), who's idea of a European Union started in the 1920, was the first President of the European Parliament and the only EUropean ever, who received this very special title "father of Europe".
The Treaty of Rome set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a common market based on the free movement of goods, people, services and capital".
That was a snippet of the Treaty of Rome from 1957.
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@emm_arr 🙄
As @trident stated = the EEC is the "embryo" of todays EU, its SIX founder members = Treaty of Rome 1957 are = Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands !!
ALL the other countries/now member states joined an ALREADY EXISTING CLUB ! !
The Treaty of Rome "set up the EEC, bringing together Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, to work together towards Integration and economic growth through trade, to establish a COMMON MARKET BASED ON THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS, PEOPLE, SERVICES AND CAPITAL"...
That was a snippet of the Treaty of Rome/1957..
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@MichaelBrown-yj9kj
The "changes", the EU27 are talking about, is the "voting procedure" which should be done with "absolute majority", but not with the "one vouce system" anymore, since Hungary and Poland continiously blocking important EU decicions, like "support for Ukraine, immigration solutions, EUs green deal, etc... therefor the EU27 decided, that BEFORE more countries, which are already having the status as a "candidate for EU membership " can join, this "voting procedure" has to be changed, otherwise the EU27/then 30ish + member states, could be made "unable to act", which of course isn't wanted.
Btw, until now the other EU member states found solutions to get by with the Polish/Hungarian blocking tactics = why are they blocking?
Because Poland and Hungary stripped down various laws/rights, like protection of human rights/womens rights, independent justice free speech/press etc, therefor they don't receive their EU subsidies anymore until they go along with the Copenhagen Criteria again.
Forgot to say "no deal will be as good or even better than being EU member ", or the short cut version "club member benefits are for club members only ", as stated various times by EUs spokesmen/negotiators recently.
Greetings from the EU27 😊
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@iaf010 Well, I guess you're driving a car running on oil/ petrol/ diesel?! And nat gas is used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, paper, glass, plastic, medical units for dialysis, Aspirin, dairy products etc. As I wrote above, the EU/ Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045. Everything else, like LNG or reactivating coal power plants is just temporarily because of the recent situation. Btw, the recently build LNG terminals are convertable to hydrogen.
The hydrogen will replace nat gas as raw material for proceeding.
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@nickbarton3191 NO.
Putler invaded Ukraine because of his imperial hunger = as he wants to "create" the "Great Russian Empire" again within the borders before 1989, Finland included...as he stated, that "none of the ex USSR and Warscaw Pact countries have the right of existence, because ALL of them belong to Russia".
As Putler also is a "fan" of Peter the Great, who went to war for 20 years to "create" the "Great Russian Empire"...as Putler stated already various times in some of his speeches...
The EU27/Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others as well as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc as well.
Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Electrolyseurs (wind to power) are under construction everywhere as well.
The EUs "green deal" has a value of € ONE TRILLION, to support the EUs member states and industries "going green"...
Various steel mills received already € millions to build their own windmills/Electrolyseurs and arc furnaces to produce green steel in the near future..
The EU27/Germany are in transition going green, that was already on the way/agreed long before the war started...
Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands have taken over from Russia with delivering nat gas to the EU27/Germany...
Please look up for Wolfspeed, a US company which is building a gigafactory for semi conductors at the Federal State of Saarland/Germany
Infenion near Dresden
Bosch near Dresden
TSMC (Taiwanese company which will build a gigafactory for micro chips) at Silicon Saxony near Dresden
Intel near Magdeburg
Northvolt near Hamburg
Ford near Cologne
VW is building 3 gigafactories for EVs batteries, one at Lower Saxony/Germany, one in Sweden in cooperation with Northvolt and one in Spain or Portugal
Microsoft will build a data center for AI in North Rhine Westphalia until 2026
Etc, etc...and since 2023 Germany is the worlds third largest economy...
Fitch affirms UK rating AA-
outlook negative
Fitch affirms Germany rating AAA
outlook stable
UKs national debt is at 101,2 %
Germany's national debt 66,3 %
Greetings from the EU27 🖐
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Sorry, but that's not correct, why?
Because leaving the EU automaticly includes leaving the EUs SM/EEA/CU, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement = SPECIFIES that membership is open to member states either of the EU and or EFTA member states ONLY !!
EEA = EUs SM
NOT negotiatable !!
Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club".
What was offered by EUs negotiators was "EFTA membership for a LEAVING EU member state", while stating at the same time, that THIS option won't be available anymore after leaving the EU !!
Just looked up about that "May stated/analogous "that the UK wants to make a clear cut, therefor doesn't want EFTA membership neither".
UK left the EU27 on its own free will, therefor is a 3rd country now = 3rd country rules apply !!
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To stockpile nat gas from a provider with 56 % (origin figures at beginning of war, now = nill) of a country's net consumption (which actually was more parts of German industries doing so), has nothing to do with a countries infrastructure and the technologies/ engineering coming with it !!
Infrastructure is the "Hardware " of a country (water, electricity, telephone, sewage, heating, streets, bridges, railway tracks, airports, housing, hospitals, schools, etc).
Greetings from Germany
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@duncansmith7562 The new contracts are about green hydrogen. The EU/ Germany will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have the project "green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institute Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and Gvts.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Hydrogen will replace nat gas as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Daimler and Volvo Trucks as well as the Faun Group have developed vehicles/ trucks powered by hydrogen, and they are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
Namibia and Germany will build the worlds largest solar park including production plants for green hydrogen and Ammoniac.
The LNG terminals (recently under construction) are convertable for hydrogen.
If this terrible war wouldn't be, we wouldn't even have to talk about this subject.
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@paulm2467
Well, half of my family are British, therefor it does bother me quite a lot...
It's obvious, that Brits are obsessed about either France, Germany and /or the EU or all of them...since Brexit...weirdly it never used to be an issue before Brexit...wonder why? 😅
What was missing in your responce, was the term "world beating" 😎
Btw, I doubt, that there aren't any other "richest" areas exist either within the EU/EFTA or other world wide...every country has its "richest" areas...but NO other EU27 member state has any cases of rickets nor scurvy...that's only the UKs issue...and last it had been like that were in the 1950s...
About the farmers = as sorry I feel for them, but partly they're a bit like the British Fishermen = voting against their own interests...
The farmers have their own organisations, and they vote for their chairmen... the German chairman is one of the largest landowner in Germany...therefor he is supporting/demanding those politics, where exactly those people like him benefit from the recent subsidiesing-programs = as more land/sqm, as more money one gets...independently how that farmer is working with that land..
Not to forget about those large supermarket chains, which are dictating the prices, the farmers get for their products...and last but not least...the customers...
always demanding the cheapest of the cheap..all three facts make up those demonstrations...
About the German economy = since 2023 Germany is the worlds third largest economy......and now what?
While the UK is loosing £ billions per year due to Brexit...
And opposit to the EUs economies, which are supporting each other via the EUs SM/EEA, the UK is "swimming" on its own in these times of ever growing economical blocs world wide...
Greetings
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@jesusaguilar4585 Don 't worry, the EU27 are well on the way to replace ALL FOSSIL FUELS (oil, nat gas, coal) with green hydrogen, the goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmill parks and others. Lots of start ups are working on alternative storage possibilities as well.
Hydrogen will replace nat gas as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
The Netherlands, Danmark and Germany have this project called " green hydrogen coast line", Fraunhofer Institut Bremerhaven is involved as well, all subsidiesed by the EU and the Gvts.
All along the coast lines (North Sea and Baltic Sea) electrolyseurs are under construction (wind to power), and Daimler and Volvo Trucks have developed hydrogen powered trucks as well as the Faun Group, the hydrogen powered trucks/vehicles are already in use.
Some weeks ago the world wide first 14 hydrogen powered trains (Alston) started their service in Lower Saxony/ Germany.
Namibia and Germany will build the worlds largest solar park including production plants for green hydrogen and Ammoniac.
The recent situation, as terrible this war is, is just "speeding up/forcing the progress towards renewables enourmisly.
Btw, 48% of Germany's electricity gets produced by renewables (wind, solar, water). Everything else, like starting coal power plants again is just temporarily because of the recent situation.
The recently build LNG terminals are convertable for hydrogen.
BASF received €135 million from the German Gvt recently, to build its own electrolyseur.
Greetings from the EU
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@SpiritoftheDragonfly
Germany is the country with the worlds second largest immigration quota directly after the USA.
The recent German Gvt has just changed the law to get German citizenship, which gets reduced from 8 to five, and under extra circumstances can even be reduced to three years of living here.
Since years it's possible to claim for dual citizenship as well.
Being German myself and part of a family with includes six different nationalities (Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, British, German), I would say, that one can't generalise it to a whole country.
May be you've recognised, that there are quite various politicians around, which have migration backrounds.
And its not only politicians, but everywhere 😊
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@SCHNITTENKÖNIG 🙄
Wenn wir mit dem Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien weiter wären, wie zB die Skandinavier, dann hätten wir diese Probleme überhaupt nicht !!
Fehlender Südlink, fehlende Soeicher...Elektroliseure (wind to power), zB...die Erneuerbaren liegen bei 4-8 ct/kwh...die fossilen Energien sind erheblich teurer.
Die Skandinavier haben im Laufe der letzten 16 Jahre bereits 75 % ihrer Gebäude mit Wärmepumpen ausgestattet und in Esbjerg/Dänemark wurde kürzlich die größte Wärmepumpe der Welt eingeweiht, sie versorgt 100.000 Haushalte, gebaut von MAN = deutsche Technik, nur hier sind wir immer noch am diskutieren.
Die Skandinavier sind ebenfalls führend mit E-Autos = ca 85 % fahren bereits mit E-Autos....
2017 hat Altmeier einen Deckel auf den Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien gelegt (Altmeierdelle), damals war Deutschland Weltmarktführend im Bau von Windkraftanlagen und Solaranlagen, jetzt ist es China.
Das hat uns damals 120.000 Arbeitsplätze gekostet und wir müssen das nun wieder mühsam aufbauen...
Da die Strompreise nach wie vor an den höchsten Preis (in diesem Fall Gas) gekoppelt sind, wird auch der Preis der Erneuerbaren hochgehalten, je mehr Erneuerbare wir haben, desto billiger wird es...und wenn dann der Süden Deutschlands auch endlich mal seine entsprechenden Infrastrukturen ausbauen würde und der Norden nicht mehr für Strom bezahlt als der Süden (wegen besserem Netzausbaus), dann wird's auch was mit der Zukunft...
Ist ja nicht so, dass es ausschließlich Deutschland betrifft, sondern alle Länder...wenigstens die EU, EFTA, insgesamt 42 Länder weltweit transformieren hin zu grünen Energien..
Grüße von der Waterkant 👋
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@mascot4950 It's the way the German language "works".
As the German language is calling things male/ female/ neutral, opposit to the English language, there are certain countries "female", don't ask me why 😉, but Ukraine, UK, Netherlands, USA, EU, Philippines, they are all "female". Therefor all of those mentioned countries have a "the" in front of the countries name 😉
Greetings from Germany
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@x-men69-96
Ahhh, so you're buying things, which were made in China, which were produced with machineries developed and built in Germany!!
Again, Germany is the country, which is developing and building ALL those machineries/technologies etc, which get used World wide to produce/make things...
The Chinese stuff, you're buying, of course doesn't say = made in China, produced with German machines 😂
The masks, which were needed at the pandemic, were mostly "made in China" = with German machineries 😂
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@goblinslayer3002
1. Nicht Habeck hat das Problem verursacht, sondern die Merkel Regierung, die während ihrer Regierungszeit die Abhängigkeit von Russischem Erdgas auf 56% des deutschen Jahresverbrauchs hoch gepuscht hat.
Und Putler, der Krieg aufgrund seines imperialen Hungers in der Ukraine führt.
Deswegen haben wir übrigens auch die hohen Energiepreise...
Und hätte Wirtschaftsminister Altmeier nicht in 2017 den Ausbau der Erneuerbaren Energien gedeckelt (Altmeierdelle), dann wären wir auch nicht mehr so abhängig von fossilen Energien...
Nein, seit 2023 (habe extra das Jahr hinzugefügt) ist Deutschland auf Platz 3, Japan auf Platz 4....
Und Russland habe ich als Empfehlung hinzugefügt, weil dort so eine wunderbare "Demokratie" herrscht, weil doch so manch Einer hier immer über unser undemokratisches Deutschland meckert, und das man hier gar keine Redefreiheit mehr hat 🙄😎
Russlandfreunde und Putler-Versteher sollten grundsätzlich nach Russland ziehen und den Ukrainekrieg unterstützen....
Als Corona Leugner hast Du Dich selbst geoutet....
Apropos AfD....das hatten wir schon mal, hat ja auch "super" geklappt mit "nur" 65 Millionen Toten und anschließend noch 40+ Jahre ein geteiltes Land.
Einfach mal die Gedenkstätte "Topographie des Terrors", die Gedenkstätte "Plötzensee" und die Gedenkstätte "Hohenschönhausen" besuchen, könnte erhellend sein....
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