A Buttery Pastry posted:

germans are the english of europe

webcams for christ posted:

Don't worry, Germany will just keep adding new Special Funds that aren't part of the national budget and are allowed to run a deficit:

https://twitter.com/Shahinvallee/status/1520885502567661570?s=20&t=H-bXm8KpLB_mjxCJzbc-jQ

Jose posted:

lol did these idiots learn literally nothing from the 2008 crash

France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity: Government officials must replace words such as ‘e-sports’ and ‘streaming’ with approved French versions

French officials on Monday continued their centuries-long battle to preserve the purity of the language, overhauling the rules on using English video game jargon.

While some expressions find obvious translations – “pro-gamer” becomes “joueur professionnel” – others seem a more strained, as “streamer” is transformed into “joueur-animateur en direct”.

The culture ministry, which is involved in the process, told AFP the video game sector was rife with anglicisms that could act as “a barrier to understanding” for non-gamers.
Académie Française denounces rise of English words in public life
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France regularly issues dire warnings of the debasement of its language from across the Channel, or more recently the Atlantic.

Centuries-old language watchdog the Académie Française warned in February of a “degradation that must not be seen as inevitable”. It highlighted terms including train operator SNCF’s brand “Ouigo” (pronounced “we go”) along with straightforward imports such as “big data” and “drive-in”.

However, Monday’s changes were issued in the official journal, making them binding on government workers.

Among several terms to be given official French alternatives were “cloud gaming”, which becomes “jeu video en nuage”, and “eSports”, which will now be translated as “jeu video de competition”.

The ministry said experts had searched video game websites and magazines to see if French terms already existed. The overall idea, said the ministry, was to allow the population to communicate more easily.

Cerebral Bore posted:

the russian government isn't experiencing money troubles tho, they're making out like bandits due to soaring oil prices and a strong ruble

Carthag Tuek posted:

prep for the next round of eu sanctions (dropping 90% of russian oil imports which is about two thirds of russian oil exports)?

Honest Thief posted:

Portugal and spanish gov are saying they could supply Europe 30% of its needs but can't due to a lack of pipelines but.. Like can we really? We import gas as it is already lol

Dawncloack posted:

"Less demand - more price."
-Ursula van der Leyen.

It heartens me every day to think what good hands we are in.

Truga posted:

yeah my bet on what happens is, hungary, and probably others, will manage to avoid the natgas/oil sanctions, and then buy gas and sell it to the rest of EU while skimming % off the top lol

or, in the big lmaos version, sanctions actually do magically go through for real and EU enters a bona fide depression due to insane energy costs, especially in germany, which is 25% of EU's gdp lmao
also, restarting the big german coal mines and power stations

Dawncloack posted:

Not sure I see what you mean. Care to expand?

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Less demand for russian oil means more demand for none russian oil, which will increase that price. This will mean countries that produce oil and sell it to those countries will have an incentive to buy russian oil to resell to those countries indirectly.

Oh no globalization being used against us for once

Orange Devil posted:

Por que no los dos?

oscarthewilde posted:

these sanctions won’t be cause of the oncoming turbo-depression, but will certainly have some kind of impact. in any case, given the huge bubble in stock and real estate prices and the completely insane overvaluation of pretty much all tech-stocks, a global market crash is pretty much inevitable. it’s really just a matter of time

SplitSoul posted:

Denmark just voted overwhelmingly in favour of ending its EU defense opt-out.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

They're already talking about getting rid of the rest. Admittedly it's a bit harder to use Putin as a reason to join the Euro, so maybe they'll wait until the next crash and claim that the Euro would save us.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

They're already talking about getting rid of the rest. Admittedly it's a bit harder to use Putin as a reason to join the Euro, so maybe they'll wait until the next crash and claim that the Euro would save us.

THE BAR posted:

I'm not going to lose sleep over losing this one