Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "TLDR News EU"
channel.
-
114
-
55
-
45
-
39
-
32
-
32
-
30
-
28
-
27
-
21
-
21
-
20
-
17
-
15
-
@KyuQem "central witch just no longer exist"
That's just plain wrong, it's just ignorance on the TLDR teams side that leads to them using east and west for Europe without more nuance...
Scotland, the island of Man, all the Nordic countries and Estonia are neither Eastern nor Western but *Northern*.
Latvia and Lithuania could fall either into northern or eastern depending on how you look at them.
Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria etc are Central European and neither belongs in the east nor west, although Poland can be considered either Central European or Eastern European depending on how you look at it, same as Lithuania and Latvia can be seen as either Northern or Eastern.
Greece, Italy, the European parts of Turkey and the whole Iberian Peninsula is Southern European, not East or West.
Bulgaria, Serbia, Belarus, Romania etc are Eastern European.
There's more countries in Southern, Eastern and Central Europe then those that I just haven't labeled yet.
But you get the picture.
14
-
@janl5879
Well, France and Germany combined have 177 of the total 720 seats in the EU parliament.
While definitely important nations they're not nearly strong enough to define EU politics alone anymore.
France and Germany combined have more seats then the smallest 16 countries combined out of 27 countries in the EU.
Given that the EU elections are proportional that means that those seats are never unified behind just one or two parties, but spread among multiple parties.
That in turn means that smaller nations easily can become king makers tripping the balance of power.
But other countries like Italy, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands all have enough seats to significantly influence too.
Italy, Spain and Poland combined have more seats then Germany and France does combined.
And the Nordic countries are far from the countries with the fewest seats, Sweden have 21, that's nothing to sneeze at, and more then enough to have a significant influence on the EU.
And the Nordics combined have 51 seats right now.
That's almost as much as Polands 53.
And remember, Italy, Spain and Poland combined have more seats then Germany and France.
Meaning that the Nordics + Italy and Spain would have more seats combined then Germany and France combined.
In politics you need to find allies and cooperate with others to get results.
13
-
12
-
12
-
12
-
11
-
11
-
10
-
9
-
@atm9862 pparently not, since they're not given citizenship without knowing the language.
And sure, learning the language is one thing.
You can enforce that by requiring companies to offer services in your language etc.
Giving people incentives to learn your language as it'll create job opportunities for them.
But banning people from education in their own native language or suppressing their culture just doesn't fly.
NATO is funded on a principle that their members are democratic.
If you don't give your minority rights, then that's essentially violating the terms under which we are required to offer you military aid in case of a attack on you.
Yes, Russia is our enemy, but Russians are not.
And I say that as someone from a country *bordering * them.
If this behavior continues I will call the representatives of the party I vote for and ask for them to request a Norwegian call for the expulsion of the Baltic countries from NATO.
I doubt that anything will come from it.
But still, that's my position.
I get that it's scary.
And you're well within your rights to require companies within your borders to know your language to operate.
If you want to offer scholarships abroad for Russian speakers and just in general encourage them to move to other European countries using the carrot that's definitely within your rights.
Indeed someone in my village of 1 200 people here in Norway are from Latvia I think, but from a Russian speaking family (one of her parents a ethnic Russian, the other a ethnic Ukrainian, both where invited to the country by the local government during the USSR because of their skills being useful to the local economy), she has now migrated here where she is *welcome*.
There are ways of encouraging changes that's kosher and that doesn't involve coercion.
Your current treatment of them is creating hostility and is actively discouraging integration in your society.
9
-
9
-
9
-
9
-
9
-
8
-
8
-
8
-
8
-
8
-
7
-
@gameofender4463 ctually this is a symptom of you guys not having enough coalition governments.
Parties are too uses to getti their way and not having to make compromises, and so are the electorate.
If you guys switch to a electoral system that is less likely to unfairly favour bigger parties and you get more political parties with real political power you'll see that it's actually healthy.
Here in the Nordic countries we all have coalition governments every single time.
And because we're used to it that works great.
Indeed here in Norway our 169 seat parliament has 10 political parties represented right now for our 5,4 million population.
While your parliament that currently has 736 seats only have 5 political parties represented for a population of freaking 83,2 million people.
Only a single one of our 10 parties are down to a single seat.
Two have 3 seats, two have 8 seats, one has 13 seats, one 21, one 28, one 36 and finally the biggest has 48 seats in this term.
The current goverment is a minority coalition, but they could have formed a majority if they wished with one of the other parties.
But said party refused to join as long as companies are given new areas to search for oil (drilling in existing areas where fine, and we're not talking a permanent ban, just no searching during the term).
Since that concession wasn't made they choose to support the formation of the current government coalition but not take part in it as a member, so they're not obligated to support them in everything.
Meaning that they'll have to get a shifting majority on a case by case basis in the parliament.
We're used to that, so it's not a big deal.
We've even had cases of governments having to run a budget created by the opposition in the parliament since that had a larger share of the votes.
They'd of course still decide the details themselves, but that way we avoid a lot of problems.
If a coalition can't work something out then just leave it to the parliament to come to a solution.
Or use the coalition agreement as a starting point.
7
-
7
-
6
-
6
-
6
-
6
-
@KrlKngMrtssn Speak for yourself.
I live in Norway and I find it offensive to be labeled as "western" rather then "northern".
The island of Man, Scotland, all the nordic countries and all the Baltic countries are not in either of the two categories of this video, but Northern Europe.
And Germany, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland and Austria and Lichtenstein doesn't belong in the two either, being Central European (there's more Central European countries, but those are the first that pops up in my mind when thinking of Central Europe).
Greece, Italy, the whole Iberian peninsula, Cyprus, Malta and the European part of Turkey isn't in either of the two categories but in Southern Europe.
The Balkans...
Is complicated...
Some of the countries there belongs in Central Europe, some in Southern Europe and some, like Serbia in Eastern Europe I feel.
I'd place Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus and Serbia in Eastern Europe myself.
That said I'm less familiar with the southeastern parts of the continent and might make different evaluations of countries there then someone local with more detailed knowlege about the regions in question.
6
-
6
-
6
-
6
-
5
-
5
-
5
-
5
-
5
-
5