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lastpuritan
United States540 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41072 Posts
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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Ghostcom
Denmark4776 Posts
The driver was apparently born in 1985, not known by police, not known by the intelligence service, and motivated by trying to take his own life (tried yesterday and failed, decided to try again by doing this). | ||
Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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Ghostcom
Denmark4776 Posts
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LegalLord
United Kingdom13774 Posts
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
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Artisreal
Germany9227 Posts
If thats realistic I cannot really judge as I have no clue about the sector. | ||
TheDwf
France19747 Posts
On June 05 2017 00:31 TheDwf wrote: Macron's popularity will plummet fast. At the end of this autumn he should already be weakened, maybe already worn-out if a hard conflict arises. His labour bill will make him unpopular to the lower classes, and this is just the first of all the neoliberal counter-reforms he wants to pass. There is no sociological majority to support his program, but since you can get all powers with 25-30% of the votes in our "democracy" he'll be able to govern against most of the country. His policies will at most turn unemployed people into poor, precarious workers so he won't gain any social base here. Macron's mandate is a programmed failure. As expected... All poll companies registered a drop past mid-July or something. The questions asked are not exactly the same, hence the differences I guess... not that polls are science anyway. The latest polls (one Ifop, one Harris) done in early August for Macron's "100 days" show 36-37% of satisfied [about Macron's action] vs 62-64% of dissatisfied. To compare, Hollande had 46% at the same period in 2012. Macron is only positive within the upper classes and the sympathizers of his movement. Three main bills were passed this summer: 1) The law which authorizes Macron to modify the Labour Code by decrees. The exact text (clearly a deregulation bill) should be known the next week. A day of protests is already scheduled the 12 September (trade unions). The FI, the movement which supported Mélenchon, also scheduled a "popular gathering" the 23 September against Macron's ordinances. If the final text is as hardcore/liberal as what can be expected from Macron, it could/should trigger a heavy backlash from trade unions and the left. The method of the ordinances was already controversial, since it allows Macron to do the changes on his own, somewhat secretly until the text is published... The goal was clearly to rush this in order to avoid a social movement during the months of debates which would have occured in the Parliament, but it's a very risky strategy. People are going to be mad over this policy of the accomplished fact. 2) The law to "restore the trust in the public action" (initially, to "moralize the political life"). This was a campaign deal between Macron and his ally, Bayrou... who should have defended this bill in front of the Parliament, but had to resign to defend himself against fake jobs accusations in his party! Karma is tough... Anyway, regarding this law, as we say here, la montagne a accouché d'une souris... [the mountain gave birth to a mouse]. A few good things but the law was rushed and wasn't ambitious enough, and definitely weaker than what Macron himself had promised during the campaign. The opposition criticized its excessive focus on the MPs (sparing the high administration, where conflicts of interest can occur as well, etc.) and denounced a communications operation. 3) The sixth and last prorogation of the state of emergency... before some of its effects are passed in the common law this autumn. The most rejected measure so far seems to be the 5€ decrease in the APL [housing assistance to pay the rent] for the 6.5 millions of persons who benefit from them. 60% of those who get those APL belong to the first decile, the 10% poorest (often single mothers or students). Meanwhile, the richest got like 3 billions of tax cuts... Such is Macron's conception of social justice. Mélenchon brought 5€ of groceries in the Parliament to protest against this cut ("this is what you remove each month from the poorest") during a session of questions to the government. The minister who replied called it "demagogic". | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41072 Posts
The UK government has dismissed claims that its plans for a new customs relationship with the EU are a “fantasy” as it restated its opposition to the reintroduction of checks at the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, said the government’s plans to minimise customs checks with the EU after Brexit were realistic and that Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament’s lead Brexit negotiator, was wrong to describe them as unworkable. Theresa May used an article in the Belfast-based Irish News, a nationalist newspaper, to reassure nationalists living in Northern Ireland that Brexit would not see the UK turn its back on its “unique and special relationship” with Ireland. On Tuesday the government published a document offering two suggestions as to how the UK could minimise border disruption when it leaves the EU customs union after Brexit, prompting Verhofstadt to say that wanting to be in and out of the customs union at the same time and to have invisible borders was “fantasy”. The issue is particularly sensitive in Northern Ireland, where there are fears that Brexit could lead to the return of border checks. On Wednesday the government is publishing a policy paper specifically addressing Irish border issues that will say there will be no need for border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit. In an interview with the Today programme, Brokenshire rejected Verhofstadt’s critique. “I don’t accept that [the government’s plan] is a fantasy,” he said. It was not “unrealistic” to claim that there could be a frictionless border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland after Brexit because it was in the interests of both sides, he went on. “This isn’t just some sort of unilateral, one-way issue that I’m talking about here. When you look at the trade that the UK has with Ireland, around £13.6bn, but equally the trade from Ireland to the UK, around £9.1bn. It is that flow of trade that we do see in both directions, which is why this matters for both of us.” He said that 80% of the trade crossing the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland was from small business. “It is not international trade at all. It is actually about business operating in local markets, which is why we think there is a strong, compelling case to see that exemption,” he said. Pressed on how the UK could manage without border checks once it was outside the customs union, he said there were already systems that allowed customs declarations to be made by pre-registration. He said that technology was part of the solution, but also that it was not just about technology, and that regulations and exemptions would play a part too. The paper being published on Wednesday will say that the government’s top priority is the avoidance of checkpoints or any other physical infrastructure at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. In her Irish News article, May said: “There should be no physical border infrastructure of any kind on either side of the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. I want people to be absolutely clear: the UK does not want to see border posts for any purpose.” She said Brexit would not undermine the relationship between Britain and Ireland. “No one voted to end the special ties between the UK and Ireland or to undermine the unique arrangements between Ireland and Northern Ireland which have underpinned the peace process and have been in place well before our membership of the EU,” she said. Sinn Féin’s Brexit spokesman, David Cullinane, said the only logical solution for Northern Ireland was special status within the EU. “The reality is that it is beginning to dawn on British government that Brexit means Brexit. You cannot have a shower and not get wet and that’s what the British are trying to pretend – that you can be inside and outside [the EU],” he said. His remarks reflect a concern within the nationalist community in Northern Ireland that something as sensitive as the border issue is being decided in Westminster and not in the Stormont assembly, which collapsed in January. Source | ||
Ghostcom
Denmark4776 Posts
The man I'm talking about was Svend Egon Andersen, the last surviving member of the Hvidsten Group (a famous group in the Danish resistance: Hvidstens gruppen). The reason I think it is important to commemorate him is not only due to his own deeds, but also due to the fact that we are likely the last generation who will have had the chance to talk with someone who actively partook in WWII. The history of WWII will soon become "dead" (by that I mean one can only read about it, not hear about it from any living person), but it is important that we do not forget the hard-learned lessons. Gå med fred (walk in peace). | ||
RvB
Netherlands6075 Posts
Gå med fred | ||
{CC}StealthBlue
United States41072 Posts
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m4ini
4215 Posts
sigh.. Allegedly the police is now negotiating with the attackers. | ||
Acrofales
Spain17184 Posts
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m4ini
4215 Posts
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SoSexy
Italy3725 Posts
The second van, found in Vic, is at 70.8 km (44 miles) from Las Ramblas. From Reddit Live, but I don't understand if they mean that another truck was planning a different attack? | ||
Acrofales
Spain17184 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain17184 Posts
On August 18 2017 02:15 SoSexy wrote: Several reports are coming in of the second white van being located by authorities in the city of Vic. The second van, found in Vic, is at 70.8 km (44 miles) from Las Ramblas. From Reddit Live, but I don't understand if they mean that another truck was planning a different attack? From El Pais it says there was a second van "involved". In what capacity, it doesn't say. That second van was found in Vic. | ||
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