I highly recommend Yanis Varoufakis' book on the Eurocrisis if you're interested in the continental economy

I'm a big fan

It's not perfect but it's a really good discription of how the deficit countries have just completely surrendered control of their finances to the Eurogroup and Germany in particular

A sensible eco-lefty

tho he is Marxist

I'm in good company here then 😂

He's an interesting fellow

`People complain about immigration but most of the UK immigration was from commonwealth countries`
that may be true, but you also had merkel and co throwing the gates open to potentially unlimited third world immigration

no telling where this would end up

Merkel's statement was meant for one particular group of immigrants in Hungary IIRC

She didn't literally invite the entire world in

And most of these people already wanted to come to Europe anyway, they didn't need the German chancellor to invite them

who wouldn't want to lol

what you do is the important part and Merkle did let in all of africa and middle east no questions asked

the problem with saying they wanted to come anyway, is that inviting them in and being accepting will encourage others who want to to take the step

of which there are doubtless no shortage

Merkel doesn't control the migration policy of any country but Germany, the most she did after the supposed "invitation" was argue for migrant redistribution among member states IIRC

Which to be fair was a really bad idea because all the migrants want to be in the Western countries anyway

Germany is the EU

EU control all the other "countries"

and a lot of the eastern EU nations are not in a position to take on a huge mass of poor immigrants when they cant even house and feed their own poor people

@Amir The way the EU and member countries share power is very complex, there's no EU conspiracy that tells everyone what to do. The place where Germany has the most power is in dictating the financial policies of deficit countries. Even though member countries have to abide by EU legislation, national governments can also veto a lot of that legislation in the European Council

Meaning that if even one country out of 28 vetoes it the new law doesn't pass

Most of the "politicians" that can veto shit are all traitors who have sold their own countries

Couldn't care less about their opinion

easy to stop a veto with a weekend in the French alps

The people can't veto

So the problem is political corruption in national governments more than the EU itself?

and the peoples vote dont mean jack shit to the EU

Hang the whole lot

They're all corrupt

It's a giant circus

Complex share of power my ass

If a country wants out they should be let go not kept hostage and abused

They have infiltrated most nations

https://www.thelocal.fr/20160628/brexit-rethink-a-look-at-frances-2005-eu-referendum if the politicians and EU dont like a result in a vote they just ignore it

A lot of people are oblivious to it aswell some even complicit don't get me wrong

@Nordhand I know lol they did it in the Netherlands too

And Ireland for another referendum

That's why I always cringe when people post stuff about how the EU is "standing up for Ireland" in the Brexit negotiations

The slave master is standing up for it's slave