Will the EU succeed or fail?
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“I think the right response in a democracy, to assertions made by experts, is to say ‘show us the evidence, show us the facts’. And then, if experts or indeed anyone in the debate can make a strong case, draw on evidence and let us think again – then of course they deserve respect.”https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... mHs1QW1RB4
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To think these halfwits who have never predicted anything correctly apart from their bonuses are telling a Sovereign Nation they are wrong for leaving a bankrupt dictatorship. They cannot tell you what Tuesday next week will be in the markets never mind next year.
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It's what political elitists do.AlexO wrote: ↑January 13, 2019, 8:33 pmTo think these halfwits who have never predicted anything correctly apart from their bonuses are telling a Sovereign Nation they are wrong for leaving a bankrupt dictatorship. They cannot tell you what Tuesday next week will be in the markets never mind next year.
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Forcing deeper divides.
The EU Parliament votes for financial sanctions to punish nationalist countries that reject the bloc’s globalist efforts. Autonomy and Independence will not be tolerated. Shut up. Get in line with your head down and shuffle along.
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Content ownership laws in the new EU regs will require news organizations to pay royalties for links, photos, quoted information and other content from outside sources. This will be cost prohibitive for many news outlets and will restrict what citizens in the EU are able to see.
Many outlets of news in the world, who can’t afford to meet the new requirements, will have to block access to their sites from EU viewing -- or be in violation and pay fines.
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Is Macron alleging that Russia hacked the vote in the UK?
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History has many lessons to teach us. And the biggest lesson is that all empires will eventually fall.
And the EU, just like the Soviet Union it is modelled on will fall.
The sooner the better.
And the EU, just like the Soviet Union it is modelled on will fall.
The sooner the better.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ellectuals
The intellectual elites -- self-annointed masterminds who don't trust liberty and a free people and want the shackles of big government to control everything. Every country has them.Liberal values in Europe face a challenge “not seen since the 1930s”, leading intellectuals from 21 countries have said, as the UK lurches towards Brexit and nationalists look set to make sweeping gains in EU parliamentary elections.
The group of 30 writers, historians and Nobel laureates declared in a manifestopublished in several newspapers, including the Guardian, that Europe as an idea was “coming apart before our eyes”.
“We must now will Europe or perish beneath the waves of populism,” the document reads. “We must rediscover political voluntarism or accept that resentment, hatred and their cortege of sad passions will surround and submerge us.”
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Get in line, put your head down and shuffle along in that long gray line. You have no rights here unless we grant them.
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So many European governments putting their citizens last. Yellow Vests will soon be everywhere.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ary-citiesTrump Administration Seeks Supreme Court Order on Sanctuary Cities
AUTONOMY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
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Sanctuary cities in the US violate federal law, refuse to work with immigration and aid and abet wanted illegal aliens.
Those cities still expect to receive federal funds to operate their cities. If a city wants autonomy from the federal government, they should opt for complete autonomy and not expect federal funds.
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The brigadiers even play GET TRUMP in the "Will the EU succeed or fail?" thread. They just can't help it when they see my posts.
But I still love my fans!
Those cities still expect to receive federal funds to operate their cities. If a city wants autonomy from the federal government, they should opt for complete autonomy and not expect federal funds.
Shouldn't this be in the Classifieds?
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Get in line, head down, shut up and move along.
The EU is not a happy club. They don't really give their members anything nice. The EU is run like a prison.
If you don't try to escape, we won't shoot you.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/brexit- ... ntary.html
Brexit is a revolt against a German-run European super-state
Led by an appallingly incompetent German management, the European Union will most probably come out terminally fractured after next May’s parliamentary elections.
The political forces already at work in a number of countries will go back to nation states and a free-trading area, abandoning the pipe dream of a European statehood and sovereignty.
That may not scuttle the euro because such a free-trading area needs a common currency to be a genuine customs union and a homogeneous single market.
Brexit is a revolt against a German-run European super-state
Led by an appallingly incompetent German management, the European Union will most probably come out terminally fractured after next May’s parliamentary elections.
The political forces already at work in a number of countries will go back to nation states and a free-trading area, abandoning the pipe dream of a European statehood and sovereignty.
That may not scuttle the euro because such a free-trading area needs a common currency to be a genuine customs union and a homogeneous single market.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47068401
Italy's economy tipped into recession at the end of last year, according to latest figures.
In the final three months of 2018, the economy shrank by 0.2%, following a 0.1% decline in the third quarter, the Istat statistics office said.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the contraction was likely to continue into 2019.
Meanwhile, figures from the EU showed economic growth in the 19-country eurozone still languishing.
Growth in the euro area remained at 0.2% in the final quarter of 2018, the same as the previous quarter and in line with analysts' expectations.
The figures, issued by the Eurostat agency, showed that in the 28-nation EU as a whole, fourth-quarter growth was 0.3%.
In contrast to Italy, some other eurozone economies expanded more than expected, with France and Spain posting growth rates of 0.3% and 0.7% quarter-on-quarter respectively.
Italy's statistics office said agriculture, forestry, fishing and industry had all contributed to the economic downturn, while a rise in net exports failed to offset those declines.
Italy's coalition government was forced to revise its expansionary 2019 budget last month after the European Commission raised concerns about the impact on the country's debt levels.
Analysis by Andrew Walker, BBC World Service Economics Correspondent
Image copyright Getty Images
The renewed recession in Italy aggravates the problem the government has with its finances.
The ruling parties' desire to increase spending to meet election campaign commitments led to a stand-off with the European Commission which argued Italy was going to be borrowing too much. Rome pared back its plans and the dispute was resolved.
But the fact that the economy has turned out to be even weaker is bad news for the government finances.
Tax revenue will be hit and that will tend to lead to a bigger financial hole to be filled by borrowing.
Italy's problem is its accumulated debt, which is on one measure the largest in the eurozone.
It would be a huge problem for the rest of the eurozone if Italy were to suffer the kind of debt crisis that Greece and others experienced a few years ago.
That is not a near-term prospect, but Italy's persistently weak economic performance makes it very hard to banish that risk conclusively.
Italy has the biggest government debt in the EU at more than €2.3 trillion ($2.6tn; £2tn). It is also the fourth-largest government debt in the world.
The country's debt burden as a percentage of annual economic activity is second only to Greece in the EU at 132%.
Last week, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi said eurozone economic data had been weaker than expected and the risks to growth had increased.
Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that the overall eurozone figures "don't look pretty, but have been well telegraphed by the hard data and the financial market horror show in Q4".
"Indeed, it seems to us that markets will be inclined to look at these headline [figures] as good news. They indicate that things probably won't get much worse in the near term - this is a bold assumption, given poor January survey data - and that the ECB will keep rates low for a long time."
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Italy's economy tipped into recession at the end of last year, according to latest figures.
In the final three months of 2018, the economy shrank by 0.2%, following a 0.1% decline in the third quarter, the Istat statistics office said.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the contraction was likely to continue into 2019.
Meanwhile, figures from the EU showed economic growth in the 19-country eurozone still languishing.
Growth in the euro area remained at 0.2% in the final quarter of 2018, the same as the previous quarter and in line with analysts' expectations.
The figures, issued by the Eurostat agency, showed that in the 28-nation EU as a whole, fourth-quarter growth was 0.3%.
In contrast to Italy, some other eurozone economies expanded more than expected, with France and Spain posting growth rates of 0.3% and 0.7% quarter-on-quarter respectively.
Italy's statistics office said agriculture, forestry, fishing and industry had all contributed to the economic downturn, while a rise in net exports failed to offset those declines.
Italy's coalition government was forced to revise its expansionary 2019 budget last month after the European Commission raised concerns about the impact on the country's debt levels.
Analysis by Andrew Walker, BBC World Service Economics Correspondent
Image copyright Getty Images
The renewed recession in Italy aggravates the problem the government has with its finances.
The ruling parties' desire to increase spending to meet election campaign commitments led to a stand-off with the European Commission which argued Italy was going to be borrowing too much. Rome pared back its plans and the dispute was resolved.
But the fact that the economy has turned out to be even weaker is bad news for the government finances.
Tax revenue will be hit and that will tend to lead to a bigger financial hole to be filled by borrowing.
Italy's problem is its accumulated debt, which is on one measure the largest in the eurozone.
It would be a huge problem for the rest of the eurozone if Italy were to suffer the kind of debt crisis that Greece and others experienced a few years ago.
That is not a near-term prospect, but Italy's persistently weak economic performance makes it very hard to banish that risk conclusively.
Italy has the biggest government debt in the EU at more than €2.3 trillion ($2.6tn; £2tn). It is also the fourth-largest government debt in the world.
The country's debt burden as a percentage of annual economic activity is second only to Greece in the EU at 132%.
Last week, European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi said eurozone economic data had been weaker than expected and the risks to growth had increased.
Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that the overall eurozone figures "don't look pretty, but have been well telegraphed by the hard data and the financial market horror show in Q4".
"Indeed, it seems to us that markets will be inclined to look at these headline [figures] as good news. They indicate that things probably won't get much worse in the near term - this is a bold assumption, given poor January survey data - and that the ECB will keep rates low for a long time."
Related Topics
Italy
Europe economy
Eurozone's economic outlook darkens as growth risks increase
24 January 2019
What's behind Italy's economic turbulence?
5 October 2018
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The truth is like kryptonite to the EU.
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