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Protest Watch: UK

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[FSR]Ush:
Serious, other countries just cause shit. Netherlands is the most paying country proportionally, maybe even in absolute cash.. but I don't know. I know NL have a lot of benefits.. but shit like Greece, Ireland, Portugal and maybe Spain is not helping us.. this costs us money.

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hehe you're confirming my point of view of the nordic people (english + scandinavian + germans, including the small countries) that are quite chauvinist.

And to defend my point that EU shouldn't be only the richest countries, well those countries would lose quite a lot of money if they "cut" the links with the others... it helps them too with the export, they can export more since the other european countries don't have to pay many taxes for importing european products, and about the help to greece... germany and france are going to win hundreads of millions with the interest rates (over 8% if i remember well...), quite similar for the other countries in high debt. And another thing I hated about germany (ok it's not NL you'll say... but you want it in your EU) is how the medias insulted greeks, angayla merkel telling that they have to lower every spend of the state... except for weaponry, since gayrmany makes billions from selling weaps to greece. (around 1 every year only for germany, more for france) In the same time, we pretend that the EU is a pacific organization. Bullshit. It's a rapists organization imo.

If the so called PIGS (thanks english medias for insulting foreigners because of their economy... now you can also insult your own people) Portugal Italy Greece Spain went to leave the EU, or just the euro zone, it would be very bad for them, but also very bad for the other countries, and mainly the wealthy countries like France, UK, germany, benelux...

Now I mainly talked about greece cause that's the one i know more, but i'm pretty sure we could say many other things about the other countries.

[FSR]Ush:
You're right on most points.. we all need eachother in the end.. but that doesn't mean countries like Greece can fuck up the EU. We all need eachother so we all should work for it, imo Greece went a bit lame just because they were "in" and thought everything would be fine..

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yes greece is the main responsible for what happenend, same for every country, just wanted to point out that other countries where many ppl like to criticize, even insult, aren't much better.

[MAF]Sighmoan:
From the little i know about the Greece situation, i thought they got in their pickle because they kept increasing public sector wages (possibly to buy voters and keep them in power? i don't know) and major tax evasion.

The tax evasion is no doubt a cultural thing as some countries see 'beating the system' and getting a way with it as ok and it is ingrained in their culture, more so than other countries.

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