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steinrokkan posted:Well, those don't seem like unreasonable demands, unless, of course, he's using the pretext of asking for more resources to aid refugees to ensure that in the end all aid will be scraped altogether due to bargaining conflicts. I don't think Erdogan is dumb enough to want aid scrapped, there's basically no universe in which Turkey doesn't have a whole bunch of Syrian and Iraqi refugees for the foreseeable future and they definitely do need money to help with that. I'm less confident of Erdogan's rationality as a policymaker than I used to be, though.
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steinrokkan posted:Last I checked a visa waiver (placing a country into Annex II) doesn't put you into Schengen. There's still a border check, you know. Ukraine to Slovakia?  Realized halfway through you probably meant by plane but decided to keep the question
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Somebody set up us the bomb in Berlin. One man dead, suspected criminal ties, blew up at a pretty much random location. My immediate guess is that this is more "dispute between rival
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Friendly Humour posted:Tell me more about legislative process in the EU. This but unironically.
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Pluskut Tukker posted:Where would you like to start (also, how bored are you prepared to get) ? The EU has a pretty good guide explaining the institutions and procedures. But the actual politics and policy-making are far more involved in practice, as are the interaction between the member states and the EU institutions, not to mention the role of subnational and transnational actors. I do love goon summaries, but thanks for the easy link (which may be useful to other folks, which is part of why I asked instead of googling). I am prepared to get pretty bored and listen to interesting details about almost anything.
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GaussianCopula posted:I don't see how it would, as long as Turkey still has to fulfill all the requirements for visa liberalization, which seems to be the case, there are very few downsides, unless you believe that €6billion earmarked for refugee projects (and never directly given to the Turkish government) is going to make a difference in Erdogan's quest to become Sultan. Honestly I am mostly okay with the "give Turkey and Lebanon assloads of money and NGO personnel to defray refugee costs" solution. At least until / unless Erdogan finds a way to screw it up / siphon off an unreasonable amount of the dough. If the refugee centers can be made not poo poo, everybody wins.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Let's add fuel to the fire! "Those that don’t want to [adhere to the dress code] must be able to say they don’t want to work on those flights.” - union spokesperson Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
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Gaj posted:is there any such imposition for flights going to Saudi Arabia or any of the other cover-up nations? As per the article, the policy has been in place re Saudi Arabia for a while. I do not know whether the SA policy is "we will exempt you from these flights if requested".
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Brainiac Five posted:From a historical perspective, integrating or attempting to integrate the designated reserve army of labor has often been more fruitful than attempting to expel them- the rural unions that violently expelled immigrant and black labor largely died out, while unions that integrated have at least survived if not thrived. Sounds entirely plausible. Do you have any (hopefully not bone dry  ) reading on that? I am not exactly up on anything but the broader strokes of labor history and that may also apply to other readers.
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Tesseraction posted:I think he's referring to the fact that Russia have been sneakily moving the barbed wire border of South Ossetia further and further into Georgia during the nights. Which is hilarious, but obviously not fair. Holy poo poo.  I have a LITTLE sympathy for Georgia in the brawl, insofar as Russia was playing a really annoying game of Not Touching You in Ossetia and Saakashvili eventually got tired of it and made a really dumb decision.
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waitwhatno posted:Looks like sanity prevailed this time, good job everyone. Now all we need is a landslide Trump defeat and I can start feeling human again.  credit to some goon in scotpol Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Sereri posted:Scotland should start building a wall, to keep the English rapists and murderers out. The English will even pay for the wall. Let's be honest here, England's not sending their best. Some, I assume, are good people.
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Riso posted:Doesn't Spain have 50% youth unemployment? No good. I've known too many Spaniards.
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Kurtofan posted:Bastia's high court uphold the public order decree in a Corsican village, you thought this was the end but nope Corsica knows what they did.
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:POS MEP got rekted by some other POS MEP. Concussions bad, but on the other hand .
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MiddleOne posted:And then he announces his intent to reform the Holy Roman Empire. I'm on board.
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you feelin fucky posted:Ikea only operates one store directly: Ikea Delft. The rest are all officially franchises, who pay franchise fees to a (tax-free) charity promoting interior design. Take that sweden. That's genius. 
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Baron Corbyn posted:I'll be very impressed by the restraint of some people if they didn't pronounce that the way I imagine they did. Gipski is, as far as I know, only offensive insofar as it lightly mocks Polish postfixes. 
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Toplowtech posted:Well it looks like the divorce is going to force England to solve all the small conflicts it wouldn't even want to discuss during the marriage. Spain wants to keep the rock obviously. We should ask for some Normand islands just to scare some tax dodgers while we are at it. If you guys want to renegotiate the terms of the Thirteen Colonies' autonomy, I wouldn't be too upset.
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:Second dead police according to Libération. Fun fact, Polish dragoons totally ruined the day of a mechanized unit because "carry gun to location on horse, dismount, shoot gun" is pretty effective when gun is antitank rifle.
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What on earth is with the 35% in Guyana in particular who voted for Le Pen? "She'll keep the colored folks out of France  "
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Dapper_Swindler posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/07/french-election-live-marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-presidency/ Allah akbar.
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Mierenneuker posted:Isn't this because the current Polish ruling party is And also raving nutters, yes.
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Jerry Cotton posted:If someone finds me in an unseaworthy vessel in the Mediterranean Sea I certainly hope they don't just dump me in Libya. My aunt was kayaking on the Danube and next thing she knew she was in Tripoli.
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GaussianCopula posted:The referendum is illegal and the Spanish government has the duty to do everything to stop it. They should throw every Catalonian official who acts against the Spanish constitution and the verdict of the Spanish constitutional court in prison and not negotiate with traitors. I was ambivalent and curious about arguments for and against, but now I guess I have to be pro-Catalexit.
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GaussianCopula posted:
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Pluskut Tukker posted:Of course, if you give income-dependent aid to the poor, then at the cutoff point for that aid you're creating disincentives to work too. Also, there is no political constituency to protect programs like SNAP if they are entirely income-dependent, since voters above the cutoff point are only going to support these programs if they are sufficiently altruistic to do so, and that voting bloc is frequently not large enough to maintain an electoral majority (also, SNAP doesn't give its beneficiaries money; it gives them food stamps). Therefore, if your primary interest is in protecting the poor, there's a strong case for supporting universal programs even if they're economically not the most efficient. While I'm a huge fan of universal programs, income traps are trivially avoidable for individual programs with a gradual drop off of benefits. Of course, the problem still arises with people receiving subsidies for food AND fuel AND daycare or whatever still hitting a point where earning a marginal dollar loses more than a marginal dollar in benefits, which is why universal basic income is the best solution.
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Truga posted:They're going to do this transition thing until UK decides not to leave, so they can then say "ok, since you were technically out for a couple years, you lose all your special snowflake benefits". While shooting the British pound in the head would be hilarious it would also cause a nontrivial amount of global economic upset.
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Cat Mattress posted:Tabarnak! Here comes Tabarnian separatism! I hereby withdraw my neighborhood from the country of North College Station, which seceded from Greater Brazos, which seceded from the illegal and immoral Dallas Occupation zone formerly of Mega-Houston, which edit: I further request that we be admitted as a voting province of Sri Lanka Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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dirty lousy tramp posted:they're state capitalists when the Cat Mattress posted:They're corrupt authoritarian oligarchs, in other words, what every ~wealth generator~ and ~job creator~ aspires to become, which is why the entire academic field of economic is systematically filled with trickle-down shills. i will say this is all throwing me a bit for a loop, my economics education (and the professors and research therein) is no-poo poo what turned me from a libertarian to a social democrat
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I am 200% on board for obscure internal discussions in the fin-de-siecle socialist movement
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Truga posted:i like how yall just decided to not read the human part what's wrong with turning the green belts around cities into longpork farms?
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stephenthinkpad posted:That investor interview predicted a state directed "decoupling" "friendshoring" investment boom. But this is the US agenda. EU agenda is still on the green energy COP26 27 28 narrative. Germany big companies just invest 100+ billions in China. When it comes to energy transition, EU and China are on the cooperation trajectory. friendshoring is the most ridiculous term I've heard since the last time i read an article written by an MBA
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