
Massive downgrades and pretending that they actually have something important to say... and the world laughs and downplays all that banter completely. Finally the day came that nobody gives a flying $hit what the rating clowns draw out of the hat...
They want free handouts!JR8 wrote:After Croatia, who is next in the EU queue?
Voters in Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia, go to the polls this weekend to decide whether or not to join the European Union.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... queue.html
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Interesting after major structural cracks start to tell in the EU empire, and Germany faces taking over all of it's neighbours you might have thought that the EU would slow or stop it's reckless empire building.
But no.
The queue to join, is surely a list of economic stalwarts of which any German would be proud, er, to help pay for...
Croatia
Montenegro
Madedonia
Turkey
Iceland
Serbia
Albania
Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzogovina
Then we have Morocco, Tunisia and Israel waiting in the wings too.
I'm wondering what the advantage to the average man in the north European street is of all these countries joining. On the face of it they seem like Greece's candidature, only even less reputable.
We'll give you ONE TRILLION Zimbabwe dollar to join the Euro......JR8 wrote:They want free handouts, and the EUrocrats want to continue empire building.
Yes, maybe it really is that simple...
p.s. I wonder if Zimbabwe applied to join they'd realise it was a pi$$-take... or maybe they're be flattered...
Simple: Unresolved, until now, border disputes with Slovenia.aster wrote:Well over in Rhodesia you apparently need a wad of cash to buy a can of coke.
As for newcomers to the EU, I don't quite see anything wrong with Croatia. Never been there, but I certainly don't see why they're having to join after the last two newcomers to the community...
The financial forgers, ah yes the Germansaster wrote:Yes, they have had some disputes with Slovenia and a few issues with harbouring some wanted individuals, but I'd take them over one of the mob-run states. Or even the financial forgers that are on constant financial life-support...
aster wrote:The Germans are the ones holding this entire continent together financially.
One could respond on many levels:
- No that's not true, all EU countries are contributing to the EFSF, and many more indirectly via the IMF.
- The citizens are spitting tacks, given the choice they wouldn't be funding anybody.
- Isn't it a sad indictment of how far the EU has wrecked the European economies over the past decade that it has come to this?
Without them you could forget about the European economy altogether...
No. The European economies were doing perfectly ok relative to now say 10-15 years ago. It is the EU and euro that has dragged them down. Germany (together with France) is the author of this destruction.
because if they went down then the continent would collapse with a domino effect.
Yes, because perversely the markets for some reason see Germany as the last-resort back-stop. However in reality the citizens certainly have nil interest in bailing out anybody, and Merkel will never swing it.
Er, yeah, the rest below reverts to fruit-loop-land so I'll just leave you to it
Banks will try to bust up the Euro as it's a thorn in their back-end. Kind of hard for the gang... banksters to play each country as they like and to shear each nation on every single transaction when they're part of a single currency. Of course in the UK the ones sponsoring the anti-Euro campaign... were those who were (or rather still are!) constantly ripping off the British consumer on a daily basis. Go figure...
The Euro will be fine, any talk of an end to the currency is completely laughable. Leave it to the tabloids, so that they can insert such an article between the ones titled "Aliens abducted by mother-in law" and "Clairvoyant claims Barcelona will face relegation next season."![]()
The Euro is here to stay, it is and will continue be one of the world's most important currencies, and the European economy as a whole will be just fine. If Greece has to leave, so be it. Good riddance! It will actually make the Euro-zone stronger in the long run to offload the gimme-gimme-tribe...
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