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Re: EU
DIR By: guest78
Date: September 18, 2022, 3:07 pm
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EU moves to strip Hungary of €7.5 in funds over corruption | DW
News
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> The European Union has recommended suspending 7.5 Bbillion
euros in funds to Hungary over corruption allegations.
> Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is accused of
mismanaging EU funds and dismantling democratic institutions.
The money is intended to bring Hungary's economy and
infrastructure up to the bloc's standards. The suspension must
be approved by a majority of EU member states within three
months.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blU8TM7NHx0
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Re: EU
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 19, 2022, 11:34 am
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Turanians who call themselves "Christians":
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hungarian-government-says-submit-first-101350479.html
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> Hungarian government says it will submit first anti-corruption
bill on Monday to avoid losing EU funds
> ...
> Development Minister Tibor Navracsics, in charge of
negotiations with the EU, said on Sunday that Hungary would meet
all 17 of its commitments made to the European Commission to
stave off the loss of any EU funding.
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Which only proves that what Hungary cares about is the money,
not its commitments! If it cared about its commitments, it would
have met them from the outset instead of disregarding them year
after year without guilt but then suddenly pretending to care
only when funding cuts are on the horizon!
The EU are fools to accept this:
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> This comes after EU Budget Commissioner Johannes had indicated
the way out of this situation for Hungary on Sunday, saying the
steps proposed by Budapest "could in principle be capable of
remedying" Commission’s criticisms "if they are correctly
specified and implemented accordingly."
--- End Quote ---
Commenters know better:
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> The legal documents don't mean anything. Action and
enforcement are the realities. And Orban doesn't plan to do
anything to hurt his wealth friends, family, and patrons.
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> Looks like an empty measure just to ensure the EU $$$ keep
rolling in.
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> So Orban has told the EU that he will set up a commission to
tackle fraud and corruption in his government. Exactly which of
his corrupt loyalists will he be appointing to that commission?
> Is the EU really that gullible and naive?
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> It would be like Boebert, MTG, etc, doing an investigation
into Trump's affairs.
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> t's a scam!!! They just want the money!! Kick them out of NATO
and EU. Let them get the money from Putin!!!
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> He is using the GOPs playbook . He's doing an end around say
what he thinks will get him his funds and after the money is in
the bank. He will just ignore he own anti-corruption bill
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> 1st problem is Orban is the architect of the bill, it’s like
Trump appointment of his own judge in his deserved criminal
trial
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> just look at his face....he seems sincerely against
corruption....
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#Post#: 16500--------------------------------------------------
Re: EU
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 18, 2022, 2:13 am
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Pathetic:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hungary-seen-track-unlocking-billions-112701719.html
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> EU poised to unblock billions in funds for Hungary - sources
> ...
> BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive is on
track to unblocking billions of euros in funds for Hungary this
year after Prime Minister Viktor Orban bowed to pressure from
the bloc over democratic checks and balances, EU sources said.
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Commenters understand what is really going on:
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> Sounds like the EU is who bows to Hungary. They cant afford
Hungary's exit in the middle of the EU, especially if some
others would likely to fallow too.
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> Nothing new ere.
>
> It was obvious from the start that the EU doesn't have
principles or the courage to stand up to Orban, Putin`s puppet
within the EU.
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> It's the EU way of problem solving. No backbone. Just throw
money at it and otherwise keep their opinions to themselves.
Orban just found himself a new piggy bank!
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/msg16489/#msg16489
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Re: EU
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 30, 2022, 12:31 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-morocco-no-access-asylum-164539561.html
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> MADRID (Reuters) - Migrants in Morocco have no "genuine and
effective" access to asylum in the Spanish enclave of Melilla,
leaving migrants with little choice other than to seek to cross
illegally, the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner
said on Tuesday, calling on Spanish authorities to rectify the
situation.
>
> Melilla and the other Spanish enclave of Ceuta are the only
land borders between Africa and the European Union.
>
> "In practice, there seems to be no other way to enter Melilla
and seek protection with the relevant authorities other than by
swimming or jumping the fence, risking one's life,"
> ...
> The comments from the representative of the Strasbourg-based
European human rights forum adds pressure on the Spanish
government to shed more light on a mass border crossing over a
6-meter-high fence into Melilla that led to the death of at
least 23 migrants on June 24.
>
> At the time, about 2,000 migrants took part in the attempt to
storm the border post between Morocco and Spain's North African
enclave of Melilla, with scores managing to reach Spanish
territory.
>
> A video from the Moroccan Association for Human Rights of the
attempted crossing's aftermath showed dozens of bodies piled
together.
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So when will WMDs be dropped on Spain? Because if there are no
consequences for massacring refugees, why would Spain not keep
doing it?
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Tensions rise between EU and US over Inflation Reduction Act |
DW News
DIR By: guest78
Date: December 4, 2022, 2:25 pm
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Tensions rise between EU and US over Inflation Reduction Act |
DW News
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> The European Union is adapting its rules in the wake of a new
green energy subsidies program introduced by the United States.
> Speaking in Belgium, the European Commission president said
competition is good when there is a level playing field. Ursula
von der Leyen says the generous tax breaks in America's new
Inflation Reduction Act could lure away EU businesses and
disadvantage European companies. Her announcement comes ahead of
an EU-US ministerial meeting on Trade and Technology.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31mZ4g93dQ
Previously:
'Unfair': EU criticizes Washington over planned subsidies for
US-made electric cars | DW Business
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> The European Union threatened Monday to take retaliatory
measures against the United States for electric car subsidies
that favour domestic manufacturers. The 27-nation bloc is upset
about Washington's "Inflation Reduction Act", which will see
vast spending on green energy initiatives and includes tax
breaks for US-made electric cars and batteries. Brussels says
those benefits for American electric vehicle makers would put
e-cars made in the EU at an unfair disadvantage on the lucrative
US domestic market. EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels
said they believed Washington was not hearing Europe's worries.
"I'm not sure whether they are aware of our concerns," German
Finance Minister Christian Lindner said. He added: "We should do
everything to avoid a tit-for-tat scenario or even a trade war."
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4qevQm7AmM
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Re: EU
DIR By: guest78
Date: December 5, 2022, 4:23 pm
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The German Development Model: On The Brink of Collapse?
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> The rapid and continuous growth of the German economy reached
its peak. Does the current development model still stand?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaTFDwxq3qA
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 17, 2022, 5:23 pm
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EU finally remembering how its own laws are supposed to work
(ignore the enemy false description of "illegal" entry; it is
always legal to seek asylum):
HTML https://rmx.news/poland/eu-countries-prepare-to-send-thousands-of-illegal-migrants-back-to-poland-where-they-can-gain-citizenship-after-just-a-year/
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> Poland has long been opposed to illegal immigration or migrant
quotas, but the country will be forced to receive potentially
thousands of illegal migrants in the near future, as they can
gain citizenship in Poland after just one year.
>
> The problem has to do with Belarus’ decision to allow
thousands of migrants to cross into Polish territory over the
last few years, which Poland has described as a form of “hybrid
warfare.” While those migrants usually used Poland as a transit
country, Poland remains the first EU country they set foot in
within the European Union. That means all EU countries have the
right to send those migrants back to Poland.
>
> EU countries have already transferred 353 foreigners to Poland
in the past four months, including 76 foreigners who illegally
crossed Poland’s border with Belarus. Most of them, 229, were
sent back from Germany, 27 from Norway, and 25 from Sweden.
Seventy migrants who illegally crossed the Polish-Belarusian
border have come back from Germany and six from France.
>
> Poland is forced to accept the migrants due to a regulation of
the European Parliament, the so-called Dublin III from 2013.
Under the regulation, when it is proven that a person entered an
EU member state illegally from a third country, the EU member is
responsible for processing the person’s application for
international protection.
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Sounds like a positive development in theory, but there had
better be EU observers to ensure Poland follows the law. Also
the refugees should be given firearms.
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Re: EU
DIR By: guest78
Date: January 20, 2023, 8:30 pm
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Is German reluctance to send tanks undermining the country as a
reliable European partner? | DW News
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> "Ukraine is running out of personnel, it's running out of
weapons, every day counts, they are bleeding," Roderich
Kiesewetter of Germany's opposition Christian Democrats (CDU)
and former Bundeswehr general staff officer, told DW. "This is
really horrifying," he said, adding that Germany is undermining
its role in Europe.
>
> Germany has been at the center of the tank debate. Ukraine has
said it wants German-made Leopard and US M1 Abrams tanks.
>
> The country's new defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said
Berlin would "balance all the pros and contras before we decide
things like that... I am very sure that there will be a decision
in the short term, but I don't know how the decision will look."
>
> Berlin has yet to give the go-ahead to Leopard-owning allies
like Poland or Finland, who desire to send them to Ukraine.
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would
continue to push for modern heavy armor.
>
> "Yes, we will still have to fight for the delivery of modern
tanks, but every day we make it more obvious that there is no
alternative to taking a decision about tanks," he said.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP2wXX0wqr8
Olaf Scholz names Boris Pistorius new German defense minister |
DW News
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> Social Democrat interior minister of the state of Lower Saxony
Boris Pistorius is to serve as Germany's next defense minister,
several German news outlets reported Tuesday.
>
> German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigned Monday
after her government came under rising pressure to allow allies
to send German-made heavy tanks to Ukraine, at the start of what
is likely to be a pivotal week for Western plans to further arm
Ukraine.
>
> Chancellor Olaf Scholz has chosen a man who is rather unknown
abroad: Boris Pistorius has been the interior minister of Lower
Saxony for nine years. He is popular there and is seen as
someone who gets things done.
>
> Since 2013, Pistorius has been dealing with internal security,
cybercrime, migration, and sports in the SPD-led state
government in Lower Saxony. So the 62-year-old lawyer has
experience running a ministry, and he brings with him another
prerequisite that will certainly be in demand in the coming
years: Boris Pistorius is regarded as assertive and a go-getter.
Pistorius joined the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) at age
16, he later completed his military service in 1980/81 but has
no experience in the military field. However, he does have
experience in dealing with the police force and its
restructuring to bring in young officers and reach out to the
citizens. Pistorius sees the security apparatus as an important
pillar of democracy. This is reflected in his project to make
the police sustainably strong against political extremism. When
party SPD leader Saskia Esken spoke of "latent racism" in the
ranks of the security forces in the summer of 2020, he opposed
her. With her remarks she was exposing the 300,000 police
officers in Germany to "unjustified general suspicion," he said.
>
> Big challenges await Pistorius
> Chancellor Scholz pledged €100 billion to the German armed
forces following the Russian attack on Ukraine. At least 20
billion euros would be needed for the procurement of ammunition
alone. New frigates, tanks or F-35 combat aircraft also cost
billions, plus investments in infrastructure and digitization.
An acceleration of procurement procedures is needed.
>
> But former Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht made headlines
as recently as December when she put the purchase of Puma
infantry fighting vehicles on hold. During a firing exercise,
all 18 infantry fighting vehicles used in the exercise failed.
In retrospect, this may have been a bit hasty. It has since
emerged that most of the Puma's problems were minor, and 17 of
them were swiftly repaired. The chancellor will expect
Lambrecht's successor to get the Bundeswehr on track as far as
possible and, beyond that, implement administratively what is
decided in the chancellor's office – such as the initiative for
German and European missile defense with the Israeli Arrow-3
system. The discussion on whether or not to supply battle tanks
to Ukraine is no different. The chancellor is putting on the
brakes and does not want to be driven. All decisions will be
made exclusively in coordination "with our friends and allies,"
he says again and again, and most recently last Friday at a
press conference in the Chancellor's Office.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaXKPDVKE2Y
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Re: EU
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 10, 2023, 4:27 pm
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Rare sanity (which our enemies dislike):
HTML https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/11/28/eu-president-without-millions-african-migrants-europe-lody/
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> Brussels is opening legal pathways for migrants “who want to
come” says European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker,
declaring that Europe has a “clear need” for mass migration from
Africa.
>
> Speaking ahead of the EU-Africa summit this week, where
leaders of EU and African nations will meet to discuss
migration, he told Deusche Well that “if we don’t offer legal
ways of emigrating to Europe, and immigrating within Europe, we
will be lost.
>
> “If those who come — who are, generally speaking, the poor and
needy — are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through
the front door, they’ll keep making their way in through the
back windows.”
>
> Claiming that the continent “will clearly need immigration in
the coming decades”, he said EU nations “have to provide
[Africans] who want to come, and are able to come, and whose
situation makes it possible for them to come, with legal paths
to get to Europe”.
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On the other hand, over-optimism:
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> Asked by the German public broadcaster why there is “so much
resistance” in Europe to the question of open borders with the
third world, and why the EU has not yet “succeeded” in foisting
mass immigration on countries across the continent, Juncker said
Brussels has “told the member-states of their responsibility”.
>
> “We will see what the member-states do about it,” he said,
proclaiming mass immigration to be a “great challenge of our
age” and hinting that countires in Europe will come around to
taking the same view as the European Commission.
--- End Quote ---
I disagree. I maintain my belief that only totally ruthless
military action can reopen the borders which have been closed by
V4 etc..
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> “Now it’s up to the member-states to follow the path of
wisdom,” said Juncker in the interview, where he cryptically
hinted there are plans for Europe and Africa to become more
interlinked.
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They will not, because they have no wisdom within them. They
have only cruelty. Therefore they have to be destroyed.
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> In the interview, Juncker did not expand on why Europe has a
“clear need” for mass migration from the world’s poorest and
most turbulent nations, but other EU figures have previously
stated that the continent needs millions of third world migrants
so as to combat an “ageing population”.
>
> In making this calculation, it is unclear as to whether the
European Commission has thought about the fact that migrants
also get older
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So, what is Hungary's alternative solution to an ageing
population (that our enemies support)?
HTML https://hungarytoday.hu/family-friendly-measures-the-cornerstone-for-the-survival-of-the-social-system/
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> while Hungary pursues its pro-natalist policies, the
government in Paris chooses immigration to tackle the low
birth-rate.
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It is unclear whether Hungary has thought about the fact that
newborns also get older.
We have previously covered this here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/msg9869/#msg9869
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> One of the most common pro-immigration arguments in mainstream
discussion is that immigrants will help pay for the pensions of
retirees.
>
> Rightists, who never bothered to understand elementary
economics, idiotically retort: "But the immigrants will
eventually retire and need pensions themselves! So this is just
a Ponzi scheme!"
>
> So what is the rightist solution to paying pensions? "Have
lots of offspring!"
>
> As if the offspring won't, by the same token, eventually
retire and need pensions themselves?? So how is reproduction any
less of a "Ponzi scheme" than immigration??
>
> The actual economic advantage of immigrants over offspring is
that immigrants arrive ready to work at once, whereas offspring
require investment for roughly two decades before they start
contributing economically. The money saved from the first few
decades of dependency by using immigrants instead of offspring
is the same money that can be redirected towards funding the
last few decades of dependency a.k.a. pensions. This is what the
pensions argument actually means! What immigration is about is,
in simple terms, cutting costs from the front to supply the
back.
>
> This is another one of those (countless) arguments that I used
to presume was so obvious that it should not even have to be
explained.....
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And Juncker thinks these subhumans have wisdom?!
#Post#: 18107--------------------------------------------------
Re: Israel
DIR By: guest98
Date: February 23, 2023, 3:43 pm
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HTML https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/palestinian-premier-urges-eu-to-stop-policy-of-promoting-israeli-aggression/2828503
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> Palestinian premier urges EU to 'stop policy of promoting
Israeli aggression'
>
> Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh receives delegation from
European Parliament, EU Representative to Palestine in Ramallah
>
> Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh urged the
European Union on Wednesday to "end its double standard policy
that encourages Israel to continue its attacks."
>
> Shtayyeh received the Chair of the European Parliament
Delegation for Relations with Palestine, Margrete Auken, at his
office in Ramallah, according to a statement by the Prime
Minister's office.
>
> The EU Representative to Palestine, Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff,
was also present at the meeting.
>
> Shtayyeh briefed the delegation on Israel's increasing
violations against the Palestinians and the recent attack in the
West Bank city of Nablus.
>
> He urged the EU to "take punitive measures to halt Israeli
violations against international law in Palestine."
>
>
>
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