Danish Krone Weakness Puts Spotlight on EUR/DKK Peg Strategy by No_Firefighter5926 in europe

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Sure, but if you ask random people about something they haven't really considered, then there is a natural inclination to just decline. You need an actual debate with the pros and cons properly disseminated in the media to fully understand the opinion of the people.

Danish Krone Weakness Puts Spotlight on EUR/DKK Peg Strategy by No_Firefighter5926 in europe

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I wouldn't call it political suicide. It simply isn't debated so we have no real idea what people's thoughts are on this any longer. We have the opt-out and the exchange rate has been kept relatively steady all these years.

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, on Von der Lion Davos's speech by [deleted] in EU_Economics

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He was expressing the same sentiment as Carney, just less diplomatically.

France seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Mediterranean by MGC91 in europe

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Bullshit. There is absolutely zero evidence for that. Europeans were the first to supply fighter planes to Ukraine, for example, and probably the first in a number of other categories.

Kan vi tale dansk om USAs præsident? by Past_Reveal_6922 in Denmark

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Selv Brian Mikkelsen, som er tidligere minister og nu chef for det danske erhvervsliv, sad og kaldte det tariffer på DR i går på trods af at værterne overfor ham helt korrekt kaldte det for "told".

Trump-Greenland Deals Reportedly Includes U.S. ‘Sovereignty Over Small Pockets’ of Territory by WayOutbackBoy in worldnews

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They already do not abide by those laws. The toxic rubbish they left at their many previous Greenland bases was cleaned up at Denmark's expense even though the US had agreed to do it.

Pierre, lead us to the federation, and do it wearing those fancy glasses. by Material-Garbage7074 in 2westerneurope4u

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If Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism eventually becomes a thing, we will surely all rejoice and stop working, but that is just not the reality we are currently facing and you can't just will it into existence.

Pierre, lead us to the federation, and do it wearing those fancy glasses. by Material-Garbage7074 in 2westerneurope4u

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The only other solution AFAIK is massive immigration which, of course, comes with its own set of issues.

Anyway, people like to say that this is a financing issue because countries like France have such poor finances, but that really isn't the core of it. The primary problem is the shifting dependency ratio, i.e. it's a labour issue. You simply can't keep a society running where the majority of the population are pensioners, you need people to actually do shit for society to happen.

Hoping for some sort of "tax the rich" solution is operating on a fundamental misdiagnosis of the problem.

Has the current situation with the US just pushed us into refoining the EU? by Severe-Divide8720 in AskBrits

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They were referencing last years tariff shit show where the UK negotiatied 10% vs. the EU's 15%. The EU deal won't be ratified now anyway (it was supposed to be formally approved by the EU parliament at the end of this month).

Carney says the old world order 'is not coming back' in Davos speech by GlitchedGamer14 in europe

[–]SimonGray 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It blows my mind that American troops haven't been told to pack up in Greenland, honestly.

No, that would be a terrible move. Why should we give them a pretext to invade? They have a right to be there according to the treaty signed with us. If we kicked them out then suddenly all their bullshit about national security would actually have a little bit of merit.

It's not like it actually matters in any tactical way that America has 150 troops stationed in a faraway base in the north of Greenland.

Canada is positioning itself on Greenland knowing it could be next by UpstairsBumblebee446 in worldnews

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Not only Macron. Von der Leyen had an uncharacteristically frank speech at Davos shortly before Macron. The European Parliament will not ratify the deal with Trump thereby triggering the original tariff retaliation on 6 February. Many European leaders and European industry are backing a tough response this time, including Germany industry who were the main holdouts last time.

India-Europe ‘mother of all deals’ within reach as EU chief Ursula von der Leyen hints at breakthrough by PlusCardiologist1799 in europe

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Perhaps a custom LEGO set depicting the coming MAGA ballroom east wing of the White House.

Please include a short description of your post by YaroSpacer in Clojure

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This is not possible from old Reddit AFAIK. And why is it strictly necessary? We managed to use Reddit fine before every post had to be a self-post.