MEGA, Make Europe Great Again. All the EU cares about today is taxation, social spending and suing US Tech companies. Europe today has been a place where innovation goes to die and it’s been that way for a long time.
Ooh how dare they spend on public infrastructure so they have better healthcare and better education than the US! Still, poor education explains the election result.
Yes, and why they have been so eager to get themselves embroiled in American-driven wars - or act as the cleaning-maids tidying up the mess after those same wars (in the Middle East, not least). Unfortunately, Brussels isn't going to be helpful with any such discussions...
No need to ask, the answer has been known for a long time. Unlike Europe which consists of a large number of disparate nations, each with its own culture, language and history, and whose people have been at war with each other since the beginning of time, the US is a single nation with a single dominant language, a single currency, no borders and VAST natural untapped resources. In spite of this the US is STILL contriving to pull itself apart. The US might like to ask itself why it is that the happiest countries in the world are those of North West Europe. Money isn't everything; Americans just like to think it is.
This commenter is delusional. Doubling down on "more Europe" and giving non-elected bureaucrats in Brussels more power is not the answer. In fact, just the opposite.
Thanks for the excellent observation!!! Giving Euro club "unelected Burocrats in Brussel💚green Brothel is the wrong decision and direction !!! They live in fantasy world!!!
Completely agree! The sad thing is that over the last twenty years, any serious and wide-angle criticism of the EU project originating from the left/middle part of the political spectrum has gone all but asleep. Practically the ONLY wide-range critical perception of Brussels that gains any traction is the one coming from the far right (AfD, Geert Wilders, UKIP, Orban etc) - but the discussion coming from the left side, or from Social Democrat/Labour movements, old-style liberal parties etc, is never heard (it's suppressed even by the top ranks). Most of the political parties just completely bought into the "Brussels system" after around 2004 - and now it's the same with NATO. This means a huge chunk of the room went dark - people who are critical of the"big EU", "ever closer integration" mantras etc and want to safeguard national sovereignty, want to see the EU as primarily a free-trade bloc, not a mammoth USE, but are not far-right ethno-nationalists or conspiracy nuts - they have no one amplifying their voices in the mainstream space. I think this is something that absolutely needs to change in the next few years. Critical perception and discussion of the EU on the left side (which used to be powerful back in the 1990s) needs to wake up again.
Another "more Europe" fanatic. We have been giving more and more power to Europe for the last 70 years and trying to put diverse countries into one currency. This has led to economic paralysis. Countries have lost the power to devalue their currency and control their own interest rates leading to big problems.
That is no fanatical - Europe is made up of small countries that on the world stage have no ground to stand on without a union of trade and negotiating power. This is why the EURO is higher value than Dollar. Without Euro there is a empty hole so it is not going away for the better of all Europeans
Agree, the post-2000 "United States of Europe" project is at a dead end and sucking the j*ices out of the nations of the continent. It's a complete misconception to say that the countries of Europe "are no more different" than Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee and New York.
A single currency is preferable to the "snake in the tunnel" +/-5% currency exchange rates under the old system, which in turn were better than hyper-competitive devaluations, which led to ruinous trade wars and the Great Depression. The only way to have no tariff or quota trade barriers among EU nations is to ensure fair competition, and that begins with fair currency exchange and monetary policies. What you advocate has been tried many, many times, and in fragmented Europe, it has always led to major and world wars.
@@xyincognito they do need to change. We are not going any where like this. We need big industry and to stop doing useless stuff like this stuck to bottle cap thing. This doesn't creat Jobs.
Europe is not in crisis. Period. It needs some investment and good governance, that's all. Europe, or even the Eurozone is far more than France and Germany. And it has gone through much tougher times in the past. It will recover.
We need to start thinking and planning for a post eu europe. What will it look like and what groups, blocks and pacts will emerge. Hopefully, almost certainly, the eu will end with a whimper and not a bang. Where member states ( formally countries) will simply ignore Brussels, we are already seeing this in many areas. France has always had a pick, choose or ignore policy, fiscal policy is a prime example with no attempt to meet eu guidelines and complete disregard for fines etc. but what grouping could emerge from the debris? The UK, as the only genuine fully democratic sovereign country in the whole of western Europe leads the way. We should be a loud and proud beacon for freedom and democracy. We could lead / form a group of like minded free trade nations- the Nordics, Baltics with possibly Ireland and the Netherlands. The french would probably go club med with Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece forming a strategic block around the med. in time taking in North Africa by hook or crook. A managed protectionist Germany, Poland and eastern states could also form a block. No free movement between blocks and probably not within them, no transfers of wealth, subsidies etc. There is nothing to fear about a post eu europe, in fact there are many positive, a return to democracy, freer trade areas, less bureaucracy, more competition, more dynamic economies.
Europe is made up of small countries that on the world stage have no ground to stand on without a union of trade and negotiating power. This is why the EURO is higher value than Dollar. Without Euro there is a empty hole so it is not going away for the better of all Europeans. EU and Eurozone = superpower of trade without = weak small nations. EU needs to grow and expand and it will do so.
You brexiteers are so funny. There are 10 countries thay want to join the EU, half of the uk countries want to leave the uk. With Northen Ireland already half out as it stayed in the EU single market. We should prepare for a post uk europe.
@ 3:25 "the US economy is incredibly strong" Wow, this guy is in la la land. Rising unemployment, rising number of pblic sector employees, deficit 6% of gdp, Debt to gdp higher than end of ww2 at about 110%. defaults rising.........that's not a strong economy.
Your interviewee is wrong about europeans. They do not like the european political mess at all. Probably because everytime they were asked to vote for it, they vote against it and were snobbed.
collapsing again! ok if you say so. what is this collapse nr 20030 something like that. well have to go now and prepare. good luck you all, have a nice day, by by.
There are 10 countries thay want to join the EU, half of the uk countries want to leave the uk. With Northen Ireland already half out as it stayed in the EU single market. We should prepare for a post uk Europe.
@toddbrown7142 Albania: Has been in active negotiations since 2020 Bosnia and Herzegovina: A candidate country Georgia: A candidate country Moldova: Has been in active negotiations since 2024 Montenegro: Has been in active negotiations since 2012 and is the most advanced candidate North Macedonia: Has been in active negotiations since 2020 Serbia: Has been a candidate since 2012 and is the largest country in Southeast Europe seeking EU membership Ukraine: Has been in active negotiations since 2024 Türkiye: Has been an applicant since 1987, but accession negotiations have been stalled since 2016 Kosovo also formally applied for membership in 2022 and is considered a potential candidate. ICELAND as well
When he says local he means national. This is a good thing and he hates it.
MEGA, Make Europe Great Again. All the EU cares about today is taxation, social spending and suing US Tech companies. Europe today has been a place where innovation goes to die and it’s been that way for a long time.
Who is going to be change? Those who are capable are demonized and called racists and fascists by more than 50% of the EU electorate
Ooh how dare they spend on public infrastructure so they have better healthcare and better education than the US! Still, poor education explains the election result.
France and Germany need to ask why US ecoenomy overtook the EU economy and take aciton.
Yes, and why they have been so eager to get themselves embroiled in American-driven wars - or act as the cleaning-maids tidying up the mess after those same wars (in the Middle East, not least). Unfortunately, Brussels isn't going to be helpful with any such discussions...
Bidenomics?
No need to ask, the answer has been known for a long time. Unlike Europe which consists of a large number of disparate nations, each with its own culture, language and history, and whose people have been at war with each other since the beginning of time, the US is a single nation with a single dominant language, a single currency, no borders and VAST natural untapped resources. In spite of this the US is STILL contriving to pull itself apart. The US might like to ask itself why it is that the happiest countries in the world are those of North West Europe. Money isn't everything; Americans just like to think it is.
You need to ask why the US national debt is over 100% if the economy is so great.
This commenter is delusional. Doubling down on "more Europe" and giving non-elected bureaucrats in Brussels more power is not the answer. In fact, just the opposite.
Thanks for the excellent observation!!! Giving Euro club "unelected Burocrats in Brussel💚green Brothel is the wrong decision and direction !!! They live in fantasy world!!!
Completely agree! The sad thing is that over the last twenty years, any serious and wide-angle criticism of the EU project originating from the left/middle part of the political spectrum has gone all but asleep. Practically the ONLY wide-range critical perception of Brussels that gains any traction is the one coming from the far right (AfD, Geert Wilders, UKIP, Orban etc) - but the discussion coming from the left side, or from Social Democrat/Labour movements, old-style liberal parties etc, is never heard (it's suppressed even by the top ranks).
Most of the political parties just completely bought into the "Brussels system" after around 2004 - and now it's the same with NATO. This means a huge chunk of the room went dark - people who are critical of the"big EU", "ever closer integration" mantras etc and want to safeguard national sovereignty, want to see the EU as primarily a free-trade bloc, not a mammoth USE, but are not far-right ethno-nationalists or conspiracy nuts - they have no one amplifying their voices in the mainstream space. I think this is something that absolutely needs to change in the next few years. Critical perception and discussion of the EU on the left side (which used to be powerful back in the 1990s) needs to wake up again.
100%
Another "more Europe" fanatic. We have been giving more and more power to Europe for the last 70 years and trying to put diverse countries into one currency. This has led to economic paralysis. Countries have lost the power to devalue their currency and control their own interest rates leading to big problems.
That is no fanatical - Europe is made up of small countries that on the world stage have no ground to stand on without a union of trade and negotiating power. This is why the EURO is higher value than Dollar. Without Euro there is a empty hole so it is not going away for the better of all Europeans
Exactly 💯
But the US has one economy and seems to be doing ok? Should each US state have its own currency?
Agree, the post-2000 "United States of Europe" project is at a dead end and sucking the j*ices out of the nations of the continent.
It's a complete misconception to say that the countries of Europe "are no more different" than Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee and New York.
A single currency is preferable to the "snake in the tunnel" +/-5% currency exchange rates under the old system, which in turn were better than hyper-competitive devaluations, which led to ruinous trade wars and the Great Depression. The only way to have no tariff or quota trade barriers among EU nations is to ensure fair competition, and that begins with fair currency exchange and monetary policies. What you advocate has been tried many, many times, and in fragmented Europe, it has always led to major and world wars.
At least their societies have Diversity and Inclusivity at their core 😂😂😂😂
No it is not, they just tolerate each other
‘Extreme right’ 🤣🤣🤣
At least Europe has bottle's caps that are stuck to the bottles. Talk about technology!
Talk about having yoghurt on m'y laps everytime I drink to the bottle 😂
@cadmdhpro8779 😅 and the cap inside my nos é each time i try to drink watter 😅
@cadmdhpro8779 and the cap inside my nose every time i drink watter or beverages too😅
This is the prime example, while Europe is struggling. It is the inability to embrace change and instead whine about the most basic things
@@xyincognito they do need to change. We are not going any where like this. We need big industry and to stop doing useless stuff like this stuck to bottle cap thing. This doesn't creat Jobs.
Can Macron step down without ending the 5th Republic?
If I had a pound for every time I heard
that the EU is collapsing, I'll be super rich.
Enough with the drama!
Rest easy, to quote an Australian Prime Minister and with reference to your by-line, " a souffle only rises once".
Europe is not in crisis. Period. It needs some investment and good governance, that's all. Europe, or even the Eurozone is far more than France and Germany. And it has gone through much tougher times in the past. It will recover.
Le pen is a social welfare advocate, not a person of a right
only for white french
@@mistermood4164 As it should.
France is a very socialist country and they don't have anyone to the right of her
how delusional do you have to be to believe that.....
Social welfare doesn’t mean anything. Adolf Hitler advocated for social welfare.
Another end of the EU story.
If I had dime for everyone of these stories...
BRICS for the future
The main highways and roads in Germany are consistently getting upgraded . The traffic jams are something else.
Jam tomorrow
We quickly need BEV sedan car for 25K or less.
*fascist europe
Get your bite before its gone! 🐽
We need to start thinking and planning for a post eu europe. What will it look like and what groups, blocks and pacts will emerge. Hopefully, almost certainly, the eu will end with a whimper and not a bang. Where member states ( formally countries) will simply ignore Brussels, we are already seeing this in many areas. France has always had a pick, choose or ignore policy, fiscal policy is a prime example with no attempt to meet eu guidelines and complete disregard for fines etc.
but what grouping could emerge from the debris?
The UK, as the only genuine fully democratic sovereign country in the whole of western Europe leads the way. We should be a loud and proud beacon for freedom and democracy. We could lead / form a group of like minded free trade nations- the Nordics, Baltics with possibly Ireland and the Netherlands.
The french would probably go club med with Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece forming a strategic block around the med. in time taking in North Africa by hook or crook. A managed protectionist
Germany, Poland and eastern states could also form a block.
No free movement between blocks and probably not within them, no transfers of wealth, subsidies etc.
There is nothing to fear about a post eu europe, in fact there are many positive, a return to democracy, freer trade areas, less bureaucracy, more competition, more dynamic economies.
Will all this take a war?
Europe is made up of small countries that on the world stage have no ground to stand on without a union of trade and negotiating power. This is why the EURO is higher value than Dollar. Without Euro there is a empty hole so it is not going away for the better of all Europeans. EU and Eurozone = superpower of trade without = weak small nations. EU needs to grow and expand and it will do so.
@@jillybe1873 No, just liberating themselves from U.S. occupation.
Repair Nordstream also
You brexiteers are so funny. There are 10 countries thay want to join the EU, half of the uk countries want to leave the uk. With Northen Ireland already half out as it stayed in the EU single market. We should prepare for a post uk europe.
@ 3:25 "the US economy is incredibly strong" Wow, this guy is in la la land. Rising unemployment, rising number of pblic sector employees, deficit 6% of gdp, Debt to gdp higher than end of ww2 at about 110%. defaults rising.........that's not a strong economy.
Well all other countries in the world are doing much much worse so in the given reality it is doing very well
They print your money
@puddletowntom YOu have no idea what you're talking about.
Strong relative to the EU.
Also we see 2.x% 10 year bond yields,
in USA it is over 4.x%!!! Higher than even Spain and Italy which are at 3.x%
Life is a minestrone
Your interviewee is wrong about europeans. They do not like the european political mess at all. Probably because everytime they were asked to vote for it, they vote against it and were snobbed.
collapsing again! ok if you say so. what is this collapse nr 20030 something like that.
well have to go now and prepare. good luck you all, have a nice day, by by.
Like Joe Biden Post-Election Behaviors 😢
Melenchon is left not extreme left except in media propaganda.
He can't be left. He's a property magnate.
There are 10 countries thay want to join the EU, half of the uk countries want to leave the uk. With Northen Ireland already half out as it stayed in the EU single market. We should prepare for a post uk Europe.
Name those Ten
@toddbrown7142 Albania: Has been in active negotiations since 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina: A candidate country
Georgia: A candidate country
Moldova: Has been in active negotiations since 2024
Montenegro: Has been in active negotiations since 2012 and is the most advanced candidate
North Macedonia: Has been in active negotiations since 2020
Serbia: Has been a candidate since 2012 and is the largest country in Southeast Europe seeking EU membership
Ukraine: Has been in active negotiations since 2024
Türkiye: Has been an applicant since 1987, but accession negotiations have been stalled since 2016
Kosovo also formally applied for membership in 2022 and is considered a potential candidate.
ICELAND as well
@@apb2081 adding any of "that" to the already weak EU will just speed up its collapse
@@toddbrown7142 this is quite literally publicly available information.