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Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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"Jean-Claude Juncker said the lack of a "permanent structure" resulted in money being wasted on missions." Drunker annoyed about the waste as he wants it - tax free of course :-) Anyway I thought Europe had SHAPE? Drunker, please note the AP = Allied Powers! ID: 1817099 ·  |
 janneseti  Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 
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Speaking of EU wasting money. There are many EU projects to stop citizens smoking. Meanwhile EU subsidies tobaco farmers in Europe. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-96-1191_en.htm ID: 1817108 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Speaking of EU wasting money. Ah they're paid from the Tobacco taxes :-) ID: 1817115 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Speaking of EU wasting money. Oh dear. Now you are talking like an accountant. I wonder what Trump would do if he was an EU commissary. ID: 1817119 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Speaking of EU wasting money. Sounds good. Can we replace Juncker with Trump if Trump doesn't win the election? ID: 1817129 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Juncker's conclusion to his State of Union speech: - "CONCLUSION Honourable Members, I am as young as the European project that turns 60 next years in March 2017. I have lived it, worked for it, my whole life. My father believed in Europe because he believed in stability, workers’ rights and social progress. Because he understood all too well that peace in Europe was precious – and fragile. I believe in Europe because my father taught me those same values. But what are we teaching our children now? What will they inherit from us? A Union that unravels in disunity? A Union that has forgotten its past and has no vision for the future? Our children deserve better. They deserve a Europe that preserves their way of life. They deserve a Europe that empowers and defends them. They deserve a Europe that protects. It is time we – the institutions, the governments, the citizens – all took responsibility for building that Europe. Together." Hmm, DID his father teach him how to avoid paying taxes to empower himself & sod the children? ID: 1817132 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Juncker's conclusion to his State of Union speech: - What a pathetic speech. I have never met a person in Europe that consider themself Europian. Only people that call themself Swedes, Britons, Germans, French and 40 more nations. What Europian values are Juncker talking about? Oh. Anyone knows the EU anthem? I didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0 Beethoven is a good choice for an anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGzsF6E-A4I ID: 1817136 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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I don't know Janne, but when you find out, can you let us & the rest of Europe know. :-) Edit: Anthem, as soon as the first bars played I couldn't help but think "Clockwork Orange" :-) ID: 1817137 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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I don't know Janne, but when you find out, can you let us & the rest of Europe know. :-) It's Beethoven's Ode to Joy that remind me of Clockwork Orange as well. Ode to Joy is a very powerful song. But the lyrics... Joy, beautiful sparkle of the gods, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILNSgou5BY ID: 1817176 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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KWSN - MajorKong  Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 
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I don't know Janne, but when you find out, can you let us & the rest of Europe know. :-) Well, that was some movie trailer... :( If you want MY favorite performance of what the author D. F. Jones describes in his novel 'Colossus and the Crab (1977)' as the piece of music that best represents the human spirit when Colossus played it at Dr. Forbin's funeral, try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBlQZyTF_LY https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. ID: 1817256 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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If you want MY favorite performance of what the author D. F. Jones describes in his novel 'Colossus and the Crab (1977)' as the piece of music that best represents the human spirit when Colossus played it at Dr. Forbin's funeral, try this link: Now THAT is audience participation! Japan’s Message to the United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdf ID: 1817293 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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After all the lip flapping over Article 50, we get this... ...no Brexit talks until December 2017... ...meanwhile, at the Temple of € a new High Priest is appointed. ID: 1817347 · |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19064 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 
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...no Brexit talks until December 2017... Didn't I say that some months ago, in different words of course, but something like... "No meaningful talks until after the German and French elections." ID: 1817472 · |
The Simonator  Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50
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Sturgeon: Second independence referendum could be next year Since whoever wrote that article thinks that Braveheart was William Wallace, I wouldn't be too confident about any of its other assertions. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. 
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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...no Brexit talks until December 2017... Yes you did. Just proves what I've been saying for the past few years: - The electorate are much smarter than the politicians think. ID: 1817586 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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The Pfennig has dropped "European leaders are divided, their voters sceptical. Central and Eastern Europe want powers back from Brussels. Northern nations view the south as a eurozone liability. Mediterranean countries balk at German austerity edicts." ID: 1817599 · |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0
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Strange. Boris meeting Ukrainians who all want into the EU.  From Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting in Kyiv. ID: 1817664 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Ah Yalta, where Europe ended up dissected. 71 years later... A Soviet bloc within the EU bloc? An expansion of ""Do you think [the politicians] have really thought this through?" I was asked. I remember making a bad joke: "President Sarkozy thinks he's Napoleon, and David Cameron is channelling his inner Tony Blair."" ...hmm, wasn't that mentioned a few times on the series of Europe threads :-) ID: 1818032 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Oh dear... Merkel & CDU loses Berlin ...more wake-up calls for Europe... ...will we be seeing a Gexit? ID: 1818140 · |
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