Europe

[Alexis]

[Alexis]

[Endovelico]

[Hans Bulvai]

[Endovelico]

[Alexis]

[Endovelico]

I'm still in favour of an European union, but one which is subject to democratic rules and not to German/French diktat. And I particularly favour an European union where states are solidary and work together to bring prosperity to all. Indulging in loansharking is definitely not the way to create such Europe, nor is it admissible to syphon wealth from the less competitive countries under the guise of free trade. We should not destroy Europe, but we certainly need to change its rules.

[skyhook77sfg]

"monetary union has led to a state of affairs where – in order to "save the euro" as Mrs Merkel puts it - Europe’s ancient states find themselves having to accept a quantum leap towards political union and a degree of subjugation that would not have been tolerated otherwise.'


Since the law of gravity has yet to be repealed the same force that skews continental power to US center of mass in north america does the same on europa's homeland....

if only the germans could be more like the austrians it would go down so much easier...

sauerbraten vs tafelspitz.

[Rhapsody]

Pretty on the mark...

[Endovelico]

[Sparky]

[Alexis]

[Endovelico]

[Alexis]

[Endovelico]

[Rhapsody]

[Endovelico]

[Endovelico]

[Rhapsody]

[Endovelico]

[Sparky]

The Germans have their perfectly reasonable energy security reasons for cozying up to the vile Putinistas - and who needs Germans when one has Americans? "minimum infringement on our peoples' freedom". Uhuh.

[CgDs]

[Colonel Sun]

Speaking of the EU:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen de world!

[Rhapsody]

[Sparky]

Very droll, Herr Oberst.