Luxembourg is definitely a country. You know what isn't a country? San Marino. And Lesotho. And the Vatican. Especially the Vatican. Toycat, please do a video on why the Vatican shouldn't be a country!
@@StimulusShortsYT it's best if they were annexed by their surrounding nations, ESPECIALLY Lesotho, the people there WANT to be annexed by South Africa.
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki the only reason I hate the reason why A lot of people hate the E.U is because it's ruled by Germany & it should be every E.U country that should control it
@@kyral2307 Depends on how you define largest, if your definition is centred around land area than Vienna is larger. If you're talking about population than Bucharest is larger. Usually the discussion around cities is population because cities are defined by the people there and not their land area.
@@jimmycarburator2012 bruh we got so many nationalities in germany, u really think u can get a german with that? :D we know how to say that in so many european languages haha
I always like your videos. :D They're so refreshingly different from other youtuber's videos. I like to see how excited you get over all these small oddities in the world. As an explorer myself I can relate. I do understand why people get upset about the EU, however, the explorer in me simply likes the freedom of travel within the EU and the fact, that we managed to maintain the peace so far. I hope we will manage to maintain peace for much much longer. :)
Valga/Valka situation actually dates back when both Estonia and Latvia first gained independence and were done with their independence wars in 1920. Estonian-latvian border was still not marked down and both countries had laid claim to areas other country had. So Tallents (british colonel) was called in to help to solve the disagreement that was actually threatening to become war between the countries. He decided to divide up city of Valga, leaving 2/3rds to estonians
TheMarioManiac :. Putting the British Monarchy in the same basket as the undemocratic, dictatorial and unloved European Union is a gross insult to our loved Queen Elizabeth.
EU is not a country it is a alliance but I guess it kinda acts like a country like you could get a EU passport and go to any country in the EU and they have one currency as well
Actually the two military bases on Cyprus were given to the British by the Cypriot government. The British had to pay rent to keep them. They never payed a penny though.
Fun fact about Luxembourg and Belgium currently April 2020 during the cornavirus pandemic : Belgium closed all its borders with only a couple exceptions for like cross border workers and transport of goods, and this means Belgians living in border towns and villages are not allowed to go to shops or gas stations across the border even though some villages dont even have shops or gas stations on the Belgian side. One town for example, Martelange is split right across its main road, on the Belgian side is houses and on the Luxembourgish sides is gas stations and a supermarket, and people living on the Belgian sides are not allowed to cross the road to go buy food or fill up their cars even if it’s only 10 meters away. Instead they have to drive kilometres to the next Belgian town to go shopping lol. Interesting little problem that came from open borders and all that.
Erm... You have no clue. Go and educate yourself about the Montane Union, the EEC and the other predecessors of nowadays EU. They have been supranational entities right from the start in 1951... Just saying.
@@popelgruner595 I obviously know about those, what I refer to is the actual ratification of a flag constitution and etnicity which is the actual requirement of forming a unit. The process has been lead up to that longer, also the EEC which like the EGKS was spearheaded by us was an entirely economic unit, that it would become political soon enough a kid can see but the comparison goes wrong on many levels.
@@arposkraft3616 If you knew about the EGKS then you would know that it wasn't meant to be only an economic union but that it was planned to be accompanied by both a political and a military union. I'm talking about the 1952 proposal for a European Defence Community and the proposal for the European Political Community of the same year.
The thing you said about France isnt entirely correct. While there are parts of the overseas territories of France which have the Euro as a currency and are still kind of autonomous and therefore not part of the French Republic there are 5 entities outside of Europe who actually belong to France politically in the same way as e.g. the normandie or corse. These are Reunion, Mayotte, French-Guayana, Martinique and Guadeloupe. However they are not part of the Schengen area since they are so far away. But it is kind of funny that the State of France and therefore the whole EU has spread over to North and South America as well as Africa. So the rest on the map youve shown are actually not part of the EU as they count as sovereign territories. And also on the Clipperton Islands and the French Southern and Antartic Lands there are no permanent inhabitants as far as I know.
I’m Cypriot too! By the way, it’s not true that there’s a whole section of the population of Cyprus who can’t vote in EU elections. All Turkish Cypriots are considered Cypriots by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, and they are given a Cypriot passport upon request, even if they reside in the occupied area. Many Turkish Cypriots do this in order to be able to travel to countries other than Turkey (which is the only one which recognizes that the Occupied area is independent) . As a result, they can vote in EU elections, and about 1/20th actually cross the border and do. Also, Cyprus claims the entire island, including the Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (which they say they were forced to give up by the British to achieve independence).
2:40 Yes of course I find it interesting that they had a fucking perfect 2/3rd majority in a referendum...?!??!? Whait how that fuck did that happen like that? What?
ibx2cat she only shows the ones that relate we talk about the world news at the start of the lesson sometimes and now that brexit is getting closer she showed us you eu videos of how big the rules really is and sometimes the interesting videos.
i actually already knew about mount athos because my family grew up greek orthodox (i'm not anymore) and we heard about it a lot. it's simply because it is a super sacred place for priests and yknow, priests can't be female, so that's why it's that way. it is a bit silly out of context though really.
So out of interest can any nation join the eu if it of course fits the human rights economic standards, even if it outside of Europe itself. Like say if Australia or new Zealand or even say Canada tried to join would they be excepted or would it be impossible due to geography?
@@snowcold5932 well why not Australia has I believe the 13th biggest economy could probably be benefits on both sides , not that I want them to join but I'm interested if it's even possible
@@Imilmano and countries like Australia or America and even moat of south and central America are European colonies with mostly European culture, does that not make them europeanish? And it can be argued that Malta and Cyprus are closer to Africa and middle east then Europe arguably of course
@@humblegroundskeeper7495 In this case "European" means in the continent of Europe and "European-ish" means on the border with other continents (Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia etc.)
That's not a low value currency, that's hyper inflation. If their inflation levelled out, and remained at 0-2% for 100 years it wouldn't matter that it cost 4 billion bolivars - it's only a problem because it cost 4 bolivars a few years ago
bucharest is absolutely stunning, if you can go its well worth to visit there and also some other ones in that general area (budapest, praque, vienna, tirana) absolutely worth it
I'd love to know his reasoning. He has apparently been a business man since he was 14. He made a lot of money through the internet. How can he be a small business owner and a cross border one at that and be against countries cooperating and removing cross border obstacles?
a good deal of Poland was very much part of Russia from the 3 partitions of Poland in the 18th century through 1918 (and some parts again in 1939-1941)
Yes. Angola is a portuguese ex-colony. What is the surprise? The maiory of imigrants in Portugal are africans or afro-descendants. Next is Lest Europeians, brazilians, chineses and south asians & people from everer origim and natiolanity. ;-)
I mean, they were an old Portuguese colony. A lot of Angolans speak Portuguese and do have a bigger insight into what Portuguese culture is before hand when compared to other countries. Our economy is also appealing enough to most Angolans and not many countries have easy travel agreements with Angola. This makes Portugal a rather incredibly appealing country for Angolans to emigrat to. Portugal is not so appealing and/or easy to emigrate to to many more countries of the size of Angola so it's not so shocking they are the biggest group of imigrats in Portugal.
It is not, in fact it isn't even on the top ten most common. Brazilians, Cape-Verdians, Romanians, Ucranians, British, Chinese, French, Italians, Spanish and Indians are the 10 largest immigrant communities in Portugal, by the exact order.
I do like how different countries have different cultures, but I must say I very much do not like how different countries have different languages and different currencies, if the world could you unite on those two things I think wed live in a better world.
What you said about Portugal's entrance in the EEC (not in the EU) is completely wrong. First of all, when Portugal had a dictatorship it most certainly did not want to enter in the EEC. Portugal's attempt to join the EEC was post democracy. Secondly, Portugal did not have a military dictatorship, it had a civil dictatorship headed by two university teachers (first Salazar and then Marcelo), in other words, most certainly not like Spain nor Greece which indeed had military dicatorships. Also, the border did not end up until Portugal joined the Schengen Area. Finally, as a portuguese, let me tell you that we do not have brothers, even less the spaniards.
Looked it up, if you mean by size, im not sure, but by population rome is one of the largest cities in europe, much larger than athens, even larger than milan
I think you really nail the complexity of the matter, there are clearly benefits from being in an union like that or independent. I personally think that really big countries should split, the bigger the country the less sovereignty their people have, how much political power has a Chinese citizen vs a Maltese? Besides, if they're overwhelmely bigger that their neighbors they become a threat and an active interfering power, think of Russia with the Slavic countries or USA with Latin America, China with Taiwan and it's southern neighbors. I even think that for the sake of governability my country should split (Mexico). But this doesn't collide with an union such as the EU as the countries maintain their sovereignty, so it's an example of bigger and smaller unions at the same time which I think it's great, definitely it would be a shame if it loses it status of confederation to become a country like USA, but I highly doubt that'll happen.
Dude, in truth before the the invasion of Kingdom of Two Sicilies from the northern and ufficialy peacefull and christian kingdom of Sardinia (alias Pedimont, the reason Savoia had their royal title was thanks to their fortuite ownership of Sardinia, because before they were just dukes of Savoy and then Piedimont, not Kings), the south was not poorer than the north and there are a lot of written sources to support the opposite, that the South was prospering (or at least floating) and the north was in stall, drowned by depts with France and Austro-Hungary.This is the most realistic reason of the annexation, because is unrealistic to think that such a small kingdom as it was Piedimont, with all his depts and inflaction of his currency, invade and try hard to annex another sovereign and much bigger and stronger state just because they think their rulers were totalitarian and treated in inhuman ways political opponents and peasants (side note, Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia and Francesco II di Borbone were cousins and in private corrispondence the first one reassured the second that he had no intention to invade another sovereign and christian state). Farther, the invasion of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies was strongly supported by UK and France (and USA) to create a stable minion state, secularized and most of all enough strong to stand against the western expansion of austo-hungary, but not so much to annoy the empires, expecially the brits in the mediterranean sea (because you know, Suez was almost done and too much Russians fleets came from the Black Sea to trade with Kingdom of Two Sicilies).
The Euro didn't ruin Greece, the Greeks ruined it, and a *side effect of being in the Euro* was that they couldn't slime their way out of their obligations (default on their debts), or engage in currency devaluation (they have no direct isolated control of the currency). Being in the Euro did not help them, but it also didn't dig the hole they realised they were in at the start of the global economic crisis. They are the ones who played fantasy economics for decades, and it was their fantasy economics that landed them in hot water.
I think it's debatable as to which way around it happened, I think both statements are true regarding the Euro. I'm surprised fantasy economics are still such a popular idea in 2018 haha.
ibx2cat There is nothing inherent in the Euro that could have ''caused'' from first principles the economic downfall of a country, if there were EVERY Euro currency holding country would have suffered the same fate. The underlying socio-political mismanagement of the countries finances was the cause, and that would have happened no matter what the currency was. When people bemoan the Euro in terms of Greece they are really just saying ... ''Isn't it a real shame Greece couldn't have defaulted on it's debt like so many countries have defaulted before, sure it would be painful in the short term, but they would recover sooner'' --- Great little bit of moral hazard right there.
If you come to Bucharest let me know and we can meet up for a pint and I can show you around. Best time to visit is May-September when the weather is great. I have dual citizenship (British & Romanian) and live in both countries. Well, I also live in France, but not relevant. Also feel free to join my Facebook group, Brits in Romania.
My girlfriend and I exchange currencies whenever we're in each others country, she's from Germany so keeps all her money in high denominations (50's/100's)
The reason for example why Sweden has a large finnish foreign population is due to recent history. Back in 70's snd 80's finnish economy was still behind its neighbours and many workers left to Sweden to work. This was not only due to being close target, sweden helped us during our wars, and took on thousands of war children send to Sweden to escape war and possible feared occupation. Some of whom stayed in sweden after the war. This is not to mention that for large part of its history Finland was part of sweden. This is not even touching the issues of native finnish related people in Sweden (In Tornio valley largely, Meän language) I used this as example though I believe this largely applies to the "revolving door" phenomenon you spoke of. Many countries share long history and thus might be more inclined to immigrate to nation thst, historically, has been an ally and friend.
Don't be! What he didn't mention was the reason why the population shrink so fast was because of most cheap labour workers from former soviet countries moved back!
Now we know what toycat does when he's drunk - he goes on rants about how Luxembourg is barely a country xd
Luxembourg is definitely a country. You know what isn't a country? San Marino. And Lesotho. And the Vatican. Especially the Vatican. Toycat, please do a video on why the Vatican shouldn't be a country!
And he is doing it in Eastern European bar! :D
@@StimulusShortsYT it's best if they were annexed by their surrounding nations, ESPECIALLY Lesotho, the people there WANT to be annexed by South Africa.
@@obihugzenobi no, it should join belgium, then belgium should join the netherlands.
@@obihugzenobi France should join it, because Luxembourg is easily the coolest country name in Europe
“Poland is Polish” - Toycat, 2018
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki true
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki do you have discord?
Poland is polished
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki the only reason I hate the reason why A lot of people hate the E.U is because it's ruled by Germany & it should be every E.U country that should control it
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki ik
Even in a European video you can't escape former british colonies...
Cyprus and Malta.
@@meandmetoo8436 and Ireland
@@bruhz_089 Technically Great Britain itself if you turn back thousands of years and stretch the definition of "British" and "colony".
I'm romanian and I had no idea Bucharest is the 6th largest city in Europe. And I have lived there all my life.
Not the 6th largest in Europe but the 6th largest in the EU
You had no idea because it's not true. Vienna is actually bigger than Bucharest
Bravo, chiar asa bravo haha
@@kyral2307 Depends on how you define largest, if your definition is centred around land area than Vienna is larger. If you're talking about population than Bucharest is larger. Usually the discussion around cities is population because cities are defined by the people there and not their land area.
@@SigmaticGames if you're talking about land area then insignificant villages in scandinavia are some of the most impressive ones
2:30 - and here am I, a German, watching this video on vacation in Croatia xDD
a good and easy way if you want to say "hello" in Croatia is :"jebem ti mater"
@@jimmycarburator2012 ne seri
@@jimmycarburator2012 ako ti je to zabava bas si detinjast
@@jimmycarburator2012 bruh we got so many nationalities in germany, u really think u can get a german with that? :D we know how to say that in so many european languages haha
With a Japanese cat as your profile picture, Sakamoto!!
This should be your main channel man, I love the google maps. Keep doing these videos dude
Thank you!
Great video. Enjoying the style of videos you produce, very laid back and chill. No one else has that style and can be entertaining. Thanks again
Bratislavia looks like it really wants to get to Vienna but is stuck in Slovakia because of the border lol.
*Bratislava
isn't it the former Austrian city of Preßburg?
@@MajesticSkywhale jep, thats its name in german, but Bratislava is more widely used even in Austria
@Marci only hungarian wish that, Bratislava was more slavic and german then hungarian
@Marci idk much about history but it probably has something to do with austro-hungary
you missed one expansion: When east and west Germany got reunited the EU just got about 17mln extra inhabitants and quite a big swat of land.
Even though Slovenian coast is only 47km long it is important for Slovenia because of Port of Koper which is an important port for central Europe.
shlon it is actually the busiest port on adriatic.
I always like your videos. :D They're so refreshingly different from other youtuber's videos. I like to see how excited you get over all these small oddities in the world. As an explorer myself I can relate. I do understand why people get upset about the EU, however, the explorer in me simply likes the freedom of travel within the EU and the fact, that we managed to maintain the peace so far. I hope we will manage to maintain peace for much much longer. :)
Thank ou for the kind words :)
@@ibx2cat You're welcome. Keep up the good work. :)
i dont know man, while i know everything has both a good and a bad side to it, atm i see the eu as mostly good
Overall I think it's indeed a good thing all though there are some political issues that need to be fixed.
@@jjtheone1232 yeah, if feel like the concept is good but there’s just too many differences between European countries
Also along with Poland, every states national guard has a partner country. Illinois, where I live, country partner is Poland.
jbtom321 I’m and Illinois but my city decided to partner with Germany instead
Polish Hero Witold Pilecki ich Sind Deutsch, mein familia kommt aus Deutschland
As a fellow Illinois resident who happens to have Polish heritage I am not surprised
Fun fact. Illinois is also the only state to celebrate Casimir Pulaski day.
@@jbtom321 really? That’s only us? Damn
But my bus gets here in 30 minutes... looks like i will have to be late for school
You'll learn more with this video than with 30 minutes of school anyways
Valga/Valka situation actually dates back when both Estonia and Latvia first gained independence and were done with their independence wars in 1920. Estonian-latvian border was still not marked down and both countries had laid claim to areas other country had. So Tallents (british colonel) was called in to help to solve the disagreement that was actually threatening to become war between the countries. He decided to divide up city of Valga, leaving 2/3rds to estonians
I feel Toycat is sponsored by the EU and the British monarchy :P
Hasn't he stated some of the things he dislikes about the EU ? The Euro was one of them.
If toycat speaks out against the monarchy, it is mine and other citizens of the empires duty to remove him of his head
were not citizens, were subjects of the monarch
TheMarioManiac :. Putting the British Monarchy in the same basket as the undemocratic, dictatorial and unloved European Union is a gross insult to our loved Queen Elizabeth.
@@m222rjr r/wooosh?
Great video toycat, long time fan of this channel. Really enjoying your content and the direction you’re taking!
FmH i second that statement
FmH I agree
The EU is my favourite country :D
Christian Ingmar Kjølsvik that’s an Oxymoron my dude
EU is not a country it is a alliance but I guess it kinda acts like a country like you could get a EU passport and go to any country in the EU and they have one currency as well
@@monferno1 r/woooosh
@@gianvandenbroek9168 wrong person lmao I was being sarcastic
@@monferno1 ah shit i got gotted
12:40 is he talking about slavoj zizek ? xD
Why is montenegro non-existent in the thumbnail?
The people of Montenegro are too lazy to draw their own borders
Dank God -Carlo- Zamasu LOL thanks we really are to lazy but we smart lazy LOL
Dejan/Дејан Kojić/Којић :) there goes our Adriatic coast :)
Plot twist: the crazy man you met in Slovenia was actually Slavoj Žižek
16:00 The map has eastern Europe and western Europe switched.
Actually the two military bases on Cyprus were given to the British by the Cypriot government. The British had to pay rent to keep them. They never payed a penny though.
Make your own judgement, but just be vaguely informed about it
Bulgaria recently applied to join the Eurozone. Can't wait to see their coin designs
Well, this will happen probably like 2022 - 2025.
Have you seen the Indonesian rupiah?
1 EUR is over 17000 IDR and the highest banknote they have is 100000 IDR
(= 5.8 EUR).
britians not in there anymore
Fun fact about Luxembourg and Belgium currently April 2020 during the cornavirus pandemic :
Belgium closed all its borders with only a couple exceptions for like cross border workers and transport of goods, and this means Belgians living in border towns and villages are not allowed to go to shops or gas stations across the border even though some villages dont even have shops or gas stations on the Belgian side.
One town for example, Martelange is split right across its main road, on the Belgian side is houses and on the Luxembourgish sides is gas stations and a supermarket, and people living on the Belgian sides are not allowed to cross the road to go buy food or fill up their cars even if it’s only 10 meters away. Instead they have to drive kilometres to the next Belgian town to go shopping lol.
Interesting little problem that came from open borders and all that.
Did u know that Kosovo uses EURO but its not a part of EU
1:52 the UK left the EU
check when the video was released
And the new thumbnail
@6:00 because this was when they decide to ignore the will of the people and enstate the EU as a supranation
Erm... You have no clue. Go and educate yourself about the Montane Union, the EEC and the other predecessors of nowadays EU. They have been supranational entities right from the start in 1951... Just saying.
@@popelgruner595 I obviously know about those, what I refer to is the actual ratification of a flag constitution and etnicity which is the actual requirement of forming a unit.
The process has been lead up to that longer, also the EEC which like the EGKS was spearheaded by us was an entirely economic unit, that it would become political soon enough a kid can see but the comparison goes wrong on many levels.
@@arposkraft3616 If you knew about the EGKS then you would know that it wasn't meant to be only an economic union but that it was planned to be accompanied by both a political and a military union. I'm talking about the 1952 proposal for a European Defence Community and the proposal for the European Political Community of the same year.
A question. Does jet pink steal your device data and info if u make an account?
The thing you said about France isnt entirely correct. While there are parts of the overseas territories of France which have the Euro as a currency and are still kind of autonomous and therefore not part of the French Republic there are 5 entities outside of Europe who actually belong to France politically in the same way as e.g. the normandie or corse. These are Reunion, Mayotte, French-Guayana, Martinique and Guadeloupe. However they are not part of the Schengen area since they are so far away. But it is kind of funny that the State of France and therefore the whole EU has spread over to North and South America as well as Africa. So the rest on the map youve shown are actually not part of the EU as they count as sovereign territories. And also on the Clipperton Islands and the French Southern and Antartic Lands there are no permanent inhabitants as far as I know.
You forgot St Pierre et Miquelon
@@TuckertonRR i did not because it is not part of actual france. As you mightve noticed i didnt just list every property of the Nation...
Saint Pierre et Miquelon absolutely is France.
I’m Cypriot too!
By the way, it’s not true that there’s a whole section of the population of Cyprus who can’t vote in EU elections. All Turkish Cypriots are considered Cypriots by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, and they are given a Cypriot passport upon request, even if they reside in the occupied area. Many Turkish Cypriots do this in order to be able to travel to countries other than Turkey (which is the only one which recognizes that the Occupied area is independent) . As a result, they can vote in EU elections, and about 1/20th actually cross the border and do. Also, Cyprus claims the entire island, including the Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (which they say they were forced to give up by the British to achieve independence).
2:40 Yes of course I find it interesting that they had a fucking perfect 2/3rd majority in a referendum...?!??!? Whait how that fuck did that happen like that? What?
Why did you have 100 euros???
Montenegro being part of a sea in the thumbnail...
Toycat, you now have me looking at this map trying to decide whether I like Czechia or Slovakia more.
- Nobody lives on Clipperton Island.
- The French make their overseas stuff part of the EU so that France seems less colonial.
the first addition to the EU was in 1993 when the EU was formed there was NO membership of the EU before this time
A lot of 5€ notes already have latin, greek and cyrillic script on them. For maybe a year now I've noticed they have increased.
oh yeah, same with 10euros. It only just rolled out to the bigger notes though
My granny gave me and my brother 1,000 forent each when she came back from Hungary so I have a 1000 note
Finland used to have FInnish Marks as their currency
Don't bother Brexit-Boy with facts.
My class shows the videos on this channel every geography lesson
where/what is your class?
Yeah, Im also interested! Where is this?
ibx2cat england
I'm in high school
ibx2cat she only shows the ones that relate we talk about the world news at the start of the lesson sometimes and now that brexit is getting closer she showed us you eu videos of how big the rules really is and sometimes the interesting videos.
i actually already knew about mount athos because my family grew up greek orthodox (i'm not anymore) and we heard about it a lot. it's simply because it is a super sacred place for priests and yknow, priests can't be female, so that's why it's that way. it is a bit silly out of context though really.
What are your opinions on Macedonia's name change referendum on the 30th.
So out of interest can any nation join the eu if it of course fits the human rights economic standards, even if it outside of Europe itself. Like say if Australia or new Zealand or even say Canada tried to join would they be excepted or would it be impossible due to geography?
I doubt they would even be taken seriously
@@snowcold5932 well why not Australia has I believe the 13th biggest economy could probably be benefits on both sides , not that I want them to join but I'm interested if it's even possible
No. The EU has a rule that only European or European-ish countries can join.
@@Imilmano and countries like Australia or America and even moat of south and central America are European colonies with mostly European culture, does that not make them europeanish? And it can be argued that Malta and Cyprus are closer to Africa and middle east then Europe arguably of course
@@humblegroundskeeper7495 In this case "European" means in the continent of Europe and "European-ish" means on the border with other continents (Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia etc.)
Montenegro has dissapeared on the thumbnail i think.
It's funny how you consider Singapore and Hong Kong countries but suddenly Luxembourg doesn't get to be one...
British bias.
Having a low value currency means you'll waste more paper and metal, ask Venezuela.
That's not a low value currency, that's hyper inflation. If their inflation levelled out, and remained at 0-2% for 100 years it wouldn't matter that it cost 4 billion bolivars - it's only a problem because it cost 4 bolivars a few years ago
Being able to travel freely within EU member states is great. The best thing about the EU hands down. Enjoy your time out.
bucharest is absolutely stunning, if you can go its well worth to visit there and also some other ones in that general area (budapest, praque, vienna, tirana) absolutely worth it
You should do a vid on the different euro coins there are. I actually collect coins from all the eurozone countries.
In Slovenia we speak English well...
Hungary had the largest inflation ever recorded in the world. The largest bill was 100 Quintillion Pengő!
Holy shit...you might have actually met Zizek in Slovenia
Fun fact:
The Benelux has had a customs and a monetary union since 1944
And the real OG EU has been between BE and LUX since 1921
18:20 i guess Denmark didn't get their number 5
I love how montenegro doesnt exist
Uk is in the EU - Toycat 2018
U are eurosceptic? I’m surprised u look quite pro European
I'd love to know his reasoning. He has apparently been a business man since he was 14. He made a lot of money through the internet. How can he be a small business owner and a cross border one at that and be against countries cooperating and removing cross border obstacles?
‘You know what, being rubbed the wrong way, not a good feeling. Would not recommend it’ 😂😂
He's going to Bangkok for the soapy massages; they will rub the right way.
Let’s hope so for ToyCat’s sake
The ladyboys will eat him alive - and not in the good way.
a good deal of Poland was very much part of Russia from the 3 partitions of Poland in the 18th century through 1918 (and some parts again in 1939-1941)
As this message is posted we still use BGN
We get it toycat, The UK isn’t in the EU. Could you have made it any more obvious in the thumbnail?
Okay I find it extremely hilarious that Portugal’s most common country of origin for foreign born population is Angola. Like what?
Yes. Angola is a portuguese ex-colony. What is the surprise? The maiory of imigrants in Portugal are africans or afro-descendants. Next is Lest Europeians, brazilians, chineses and south asians & people from everer origim and natiolanity. ;-)
I mean, they were an old Portuguese colony. A lot of Angolans speak Portuguese and do have a bigger insight into what Portuguese culture is before hand when compared to other countries. Our economy is also appealing enough to most Angolans and not many countries have easy travel agreements with Angola. This makes Portugal a rather incredibly appealing country for Angolans to emigrat to.
Portugal is not so appealing and/or easy to emigrate to to many more countries of the size of Angola so it's not so shocking they are the biggest group of imigrats in Portugal.
For the same reason Frances’ is Algeria
It is not, in fact it isn't even on the top ten most common. Brazilians, Cape-Verdians, Romanians, Ucranians, British, Chinese, French, Italians, Spanish and Indians are the 10 largest immigrant communities in Portugal, by the exact order.
@ibx2cat Why do you have to do videos that long? e_e
I do like how different countries have different cultures, but I must say I very much do not like how different countries have different languages and different currencies, if the world could you unite on those two things I think wed live in a better world.
6:05 u really messed something up there... :D
What? (just wondering, didn’t see :)
What you said about Portugal's entrance in the EEC (not in the EU) is completely wrong. First of all, when Portugal had a dictatorship it most certainly did not want to enter in the EEC. Portugal's attempt to join the EEC was post democracy. Secondly, Portugal did not have a military dictatorship, it had a civil dictatorship headed by two university teachers (first Salazar and then Marcelo), in other words, most certainly not like Spain nor Greece which indeed had military dicatorships.
Also, the border did not end up until Portugal joined the Schengen Area. Finally, as a portuguese, let me tell you that we do not have brothers, even less the spaniards.
Athens is actually bigger than Rome.
But milan is bigger than both
Rovaniemi is bigger than all of those three put together, it's officially the biggest city in Europe :)
Looked it up, if you mean by size, im not sure, but by population rome is one of the largest cities in europe, much larger than athens, even larger than milan
@@Tom-eq7eh rome got that population
@@ryanrzjr Athens is like 3.5 million, depending on how you measure it. City centre is less than 1 million, but metropolitan area has 3.5 million
I think you really nail the complexity of the matter, there are clearly benefits from being in an union like that or independent. I personally think that really big countries should split, the bigger the country the less sovereignty their people have, how much political power has a Chinese citizen vs a Maltese? Besides, if they're overwhelmely bigger that their neighbors they become a threat and an active interfering power, think of Russia with the Slavic countries or USA with Latin America, China with Taiwan and it's southern neighbors. I even think that for the sake of governability my country should split (Mexico). But this doesn't collide with an union such as the EU as the countries maintain their sovereignty, so it's an example of bigger and smaller unions at the same time which I think it's great, definitely it would be a shame if it loses it status of confederation to become a country like USA, but I highly doubt that'll happen.
Another fun fact about Austria is that its one of the last countries in Europe with a compulsory military service
But you can also do civil service
The Benelux came before the EU
Don't bother Brexit-Boy with facts.
Outdated now
18:06 poland is polish ^^
Nice video toycat
"if you live on cliperton"
Dude, in truth before the the invasion of Kingdom of Two Sicilies from the northern and ufficialy peacefull and christian kingdom of Sardinia (alias Pedimont, the reason Savoia had their royal title was thanks to their fortuite ownership of Sardinia, because before they were just dukes of Savoy and then Piedimont, not Kings), the south was not poorer than the north and there are a lot of written sources to support the opposite, that the South was prospering (or at least floating) and the north was in stall, drowned by depts with France and Austro-Hungary.This is the most realistic reason of the annexation, because is unrealistic to think that such a small kingdom as it was Piedimont, with all his depts and inflaction of his currency, invade and try hard to annex another sovereign and much bigger and stronger state just because they think their rulers were totalitarian and treated in inhuman ways political opponents and peasants (side note, Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia and Francesco II di Borbone were cousins and in private corrispondence the first one reassured the second that he had no intention to invade another sovereign and christian state). Farther, the invasion of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies was strongly supported by UK and France (and USA) to create a stable minion state, secularized and most of all enough strong to stand against the western expansion of austo-hungary, but not so much to annoy the empires, expecially the brits in the mediterranean sea (because you know, Suez was almost done and too much Russians fleets came from the Black Sea to trade with Kingdom of Two Sicilies).
As an American, I got to say that I hope that America joins the EU if it could qualify.
Can Dou make a Video about the ruhrgebiet?
The Euro didn't ruin Greece, the Greeks ruined it, and a *side effect of being in the Euro* was that they couldn't slime their way out of their obligations (default on their debts), or engage in currency devaluation (they have no direct isolated control of the currency). Being in the Euro did not help them, but it also didn't dig the hole they realised they were in at the start of the global economic crisis. They are the ones who played fantasy economics for decades, and it was their fantasy economics that landed them in hot water.
I think it's debatable as to which way around it happened, I think both statements are true regarding the Euro. I'm surprised fantasy economics are still such a popular idea in 2018 haha.
ibx2cat There is nothing inherent in the Euro that could have ''caused'' from first principles the economic downfall of a country, if there were EVERY Euro currency holding country would have suffered the same fate. The underlying socio-political mismanagement of the countries finances was the cause, and that would have happened no matter what the currency was. When people bemoan the Euro in terms of Greece they are really just saying ... ''Isn't it a real shame Greece couldn't have defaulted on it's debt like so many countries have defaulted before, sure it would be painful in the short term, but they would recover sooner'' --- Great little bit of moral hazard right there.
@@SardonicALLY He is just a biased Brexit-Boy with an attitude. Don't bother him with facts.
calling italy the sick man of europe has a whole new meaning now
take the L lithuanians, latvia back with another shrinking dub
If you come to Bucharest let me know and we can meet up for a pint and I can show you around. Best time to visit is May-September when the weather is great. I have dual citizenship (British & Romanian) and live in both countries. Well, I also live in France, but not relevant. Also feel free to join my Facebook group, Brits in Romania.
(To the thumbnail) yes I remembered that every nation became a river besides the EU and Montenegro flooded and so Oslo
Why do you have a hundred euros lying around?
My girlfriend and I exchange currencies whenever we're in each others country, she's from Germany so keeps all her money in high denominations (50's/100's)
Next year edit this video and remove GB
he has
Feminists : "I can do what I want"
Mount Athos : Yeet!
for me the eu seem just good, my country received a lot of help from the eu and now we start to support other countries because of that eu boost.
Hmmmm georgia joined eu too..
Did you meet Žižek?
There are religious reasons why only men are alowed on Atos.
I just found out you're older than my science teacher and that is so weird
Greece has the world's biggest man cave? Count me in
Brexit means Brexit gamers
The reason for example why Sweden has a large finnish foreign population is due to recent history.
Back in 70's snd 80's finnish economy was still behind its neighbours and many workers left to Sweden to work.
This was not only due to being close target, sweden helped us during our wars, and took on thousands of war children send to Sweden to escape war and possible feared occupation. Some of whom stayed in sweden after the war.
This is not to mention that for large part of its history Finland was part of sweden.
This is not even touching the issues of native finnish related people in Sweden
(In Tornio valley largely, Meän language)
I used this as example though I believe this largely applies to the "revolving door" phenomenon you spoke of. Many countries share long history and thus might be more inclined to immigrate to nation thst, historically, has been an ally and friend.
Do a video on mega-countries made from other countries Eg. Germania (Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, Flanders)
BACK IN THE EUSSR! DONT KNOW HOW LUCKY YOU AAAARE BOY
Lol Germans are coming in my country
*Willkommen in KROATIEN*
So sad situation for Latvia..
Don't be!
What he didn't mention was the reason why the population shrink so fast was because of most cheap labour workers from former soviet countries moved back!
Maybe Ukrainians can fill the gap in Poland but not there.