Turkey makes more friends. This time: the EU

[Razgovory]

The Baltics practice sound economics and the rule of law as far as I'm aware.

Like 20% unemployment rates?

Tea Party economics.  I mean, they have a flat tax after all.

[Ideologue]

In hindsight, Greece shouldn't have joined the Euro, but they certainly have a place in the EU.

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

Really?  Wow.

Re: the Baltics bar Lithuania, iirc, practice apartheid.  Or have they stopped being total monsters and nestled into more comfortable roles as the Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina of Europe?

[Habbaku]

The Baltics practice sound economics and the rule of law as far as I'm aware.

Like 20% unemployment rates?

So they're the equal to Spain. 

[Martinus]

The Baltics practice sound economics and the rule of law as far as I'm aware.

You are aware wrong. On both counts.

[Martinus]

In hindsight, Greece shouldn't have joined the Euro, but they certainly have a place in the EU.

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

Really?  Wow.

Re: the Baltics bar Lithuania, iirc, practice apartheid.  Or have they stopped being total monsters and nestled into more comfortable roles as the Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina of Europe?

Lithuania is nasty too, although they hate Poles more than Russians it seems (for example they banned people spelling their last names in a non-Lithuanian way, if you can imagine that). And they have implemented or tried to implement some of the most homophobic policies in the EU (e.g. a law which criminalizes, with possible prison sentences, "presenting homosexuality in a good light", which causes protests all across Europe).

Not to mention they still venerate nazis and remember with sentiment such stories as their national soccer team winning a match with the German team in 1941 and being taken, as a reward, to the local ghetto to have some fun shooting at the Jews.

[Martinus]

The Baltics practice sound economics and the rule of law as far as I'm aware.

Like 20% unemployment rates?

So they're the equal to Spain. 

Lithuania's economy contracted by 30% or so during the last few years. That's not comparable to Spain, you tard.

[Razgovory]

And here I am agreeing with Marty.

[Slargos]

In hindsight, Greece shouldn't have joined the Euro, but they certainly have a place in the EU.

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

Really?  Wow.

Re: the Baltics bar Lithuania, iirc, practice apartheid.  Or have they stopped being total monsters and nestled into more comfortable roles as the Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina of Europe?

Lithuania is nasty too, although they hate Poles more than Russians it seems (for example they banned people spelling their last names in a non-Lithuanian way, if you can imagine that). And they have implemented or tried to implement some of the most homophobic policies in the EU (e.g. a law which criminalizes, with possible prison sentences, "presenting homosexuality in a good light", which causes protests all across Europe).

Not to mention they still venerate nazis and remember with sentiment such stories as their national soccer team winning a match with the German team in 1941 and being taken, as a reward, to the local ghetto to have some fun shooting at the Jews.

I've always liked the Lithuanians.

[Ideologue]

In hindsight, Greece shouldn't have joined the Euro, but they certainly have a place in the EU.

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

Really?  Wow.

Re: the Baltics bar Lithuania, iirc, practice apartheid.  Or have they stopped being total monsters and nestled into more comfortable roles as the Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina of Europe?

Lithuania is nasty too, although they hate Poles more than Russians it seems (for example they banned people spelling their last names in a non-Lithuanian way, if you can imagine that). And they have implemented or tried to implement some of the most homophobic policies in the EU (e.g. a law which criminalizes, with possible prison sentences, "presenting homosexuality in a good light", which causes protests all across Europe).

Not to mention they still venerate nazis and remember with sentiment such stories as their national soccer team winning a match with the German team in 1941 and being taken, as a reward, to the local ghetto to have some fun shooting at the Jews.

I've always liked the Lithuanians.

Why?  If the Balts were a superior people, surely they'd have avoided being subjugated by Poles and Russians.

[The Larch]

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

There you go.

[Admiral Yi]

Like 20% unemployment rates?

You were the guy cracking on the CNBC talking heads for misunderstanding macroeconomics, right?

Unemployment is not a policy.  Loose money is a policy, which you can't pursue if your belong to a transnational currency, or you have a fixed exchange rate.  Deficit spending is a policy, which you might or might not be able to pursue given your fiscal situation.

[Josquius]

It is rather silly from Turkey.
But hey, hopefully it'll give Cyprus a kick up the bum to sort out its shit. We really should have made them do that before they could join the EU

[The Larch]

In hindsight, Greece shouldn't have joined the Euro, but they certainly have a place in the EU.

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

Really?  Wow.

Re: the Baltics bar Lithuania, iirc, practice apartheid.  Or have they stopped being total monsters and nestled into more comfortable roles as the Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina of Europe?

AFAIK at least their attitude towards their Russian minorities improved as a condition towards joining the EU. Don't know how it is nowadays, but back in the day these minorities were essentially stateless as they wouldn't be given their corresponding Baltic nationality unless they passed language and culture tests that were understood to be way too rigurous and had to be relaxed. It seems that this was a problem mostly of the older generations, who hadn't ever used Estonian or Latvian in their day to day lives despite living there for their whole lifes.

[Ideologue]

I think we could always have predicted Greece was going to be a problem.  It's not like we weren't warned, I mean their Euro coin image is of Zeus raping Europa.

There you go.

Okay, that's fucked up on at least two levels.

[Richard Hakluyt]

 

I'd never really thought about those Greek coins before............but have to admit that it is very funny given the way things have turned out. Well spotted Sheilbh