A very informative conversation. It was also a good reminder that the EU as it is today is a relatively young organization. Thank you for covering such a great topic.
last year i traveled with some friends by car from northern germany to spain. we drove trough germany to west, luxembourg, france and entered spain. I had no passport, only my german ID. We, in our car, were never been stopped by customs and border crossings were fluid.... just a sign at the road "welcome to ***" and a message from my mobile with a new zone. I freaking loved it because that is when i, for myself, realised that national borders are dumb. Let the people go and live wherever they want. I love the EU and i hope it will expand the type of freedom that i live in. More people should experience it.
Yes. One of the many great advantages the EU has brought us. I was born in 1971, and remember going to vacation from Germany to Spain, needing to get a passport, waiting at border control queues, exchanging money and in the shop calculating "how much is that, actually", and so on.
What has the EU ever done for us? Apart from, - being able to work, live, study and retire in any EU country, - removing currency exchange risks for businesses - paying in other countries with same money - investment in infrastructure (like rail) (instead of letting everything fall to ruins like in the USA) - consumer protection (data security, monopolistic behavior of giant IT corporations, food safety, ...) - ease of ordering and buying of any product from any EU country - affordable prices for roaming and cross-border postage fees - raising living standards in Central and Eastern European countries - having a say in world politics - promoting EU wide cooperation on all manner of things (research and development) - peace and stability - existing communication channels and organizations to react to crisises (Covid, Ukraine) Thus I ask you, apart of that above, what have the Romans, ...ehm, the EU, ever done for us? -- Monty Python 2.0, in 2024
A very informative conversation. It was also a good reminder that the EU as it is today is a relatively young organization. Thank you for covering such a great topic.
last year i traveled with some friends by car from northern germany to spain. we drove trough germany to west, luxembourg, france and entered spain. I had no passport, only my german ID. We, in our car, were never been stopped by customs and border crossings were fluid.... just a sign at the road "welcome to ***" and a message from my mobile with a new zone. I freaking loved it because that is when i, for myself, realised that national borders are dumb. Let the people go and live wherever they want. I love the EU and i hope it will expand the type of freedom that i live in. More people should experience it.
Yes. One of the many great advantages the EU has brought us. I was born in 1971, and remember going to vacation from Germany to Spain, needing to get a passport, waiting at border control queues, exchanging money and in the shop calculating "how much is that, actually", and so on.
What has the EU ever done for us?
Apart from,
- being able to work, live, study and retire in any EU country,
- removing currency exchange risks for businesses
- paying in other countries with same money
- investment in infrastructure (like rail) (instead of letting everything fall to ruins like in the USA)
- consumer protection (data security, monopolistic behavior of giant IT corporations, food safety, ...)
- ease of ordering and buying of any product from any EU country
- affordable prices for roaming and cross-border postage fees
- raising living standards in Central and Eastern European countries
- having a say in world politics
- promoting EU wide cooperation on all manner of things (research and development)
- peace and stability
- existing communication channels and organizations to react to crisises (Covid, Ukraine)
Thus I ask you, apart of that above, what have the Romans, ...ehm, the EU, ever done for us?
-- Monty Python 2.0, in 2024