double nine posted:

it's kind of spectacular watching europe destroy its own energy supplies & thus industry in real time with the full support of its elites.

this terrorist destuction of the pipelines is incredibly brazen and yet not a peep towards the most likely culprid USA

Carthag Tuek posted:

i would love a world where only centrists pissed me off

what a dream

Doktor Avalanche posted:

lmao

https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1639187461577363456

Jeff Fatwood posted:

Am I reading you wrong? Did he post nazi poo poo or not?

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/30/embattled-finland-minister-quits-amid-mass-africa-abortions-scandal

The nazi government in Finland seems to be going well.

Mr Hootington posted:

Germany just announced they were increasing defense spending too and that they would have to find ways to fund that.

Carthag Tuek posted:

single issue idiocy ftw

R. Mute posted:

so euro politics update as far as I know:
Spain: far right victory
Italy: fascist in power
France: they can't keep out le pen forever
Belgium: Flemish far right party eyeing reaching 50% of the Flemish vote along with the slightly less far right party
Netherlands: government gone, pseudo-fascist farmer party expected to surge
Finland: far right in power
Hungary: far right in power
Germany: fascists surging
Poland: far right in power
Ukraine: ...
Denmark: social democrats turning fascist

don't know the rest of them. but it's not looking good, is it?

SplitSoul posted:

Whole bunch of customers over the years at the neo-nazi Nordic Resistance Movement's webshop got doxxed.

Carthag Tuek posted:

PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:

There is definitely a fash movement in Greece, especially bad among the youth, but it's still basically the same country that voted for (what was presented as) a socialist government to try to destroy the EU, and got backstabbed for their trouble. The real, no-bullshit Communist party, the same one that crushed its Eurocommunist splitters into irrelevance, still gets around 5%-10% of the vote nationally and mayoralities in major cities.

So, bad, but things could change quick.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

the scandal here is that here brought something that belongs in the bedroom into the public.

PhilippAchtel posted:

https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1706077911877640284

Noosphere posted:

If anything, the Swiss electorate consistently voting against their own interests is a perfect illustration that even with functioning direct democracy, propaganda funded by monied interests still directs things. For some phases of the political process, the play isn't to buy politicians, but to drum up fear amongst the voting population. Jobs ! Immigration ! Number ! Every single time an initiative or referendum is brought where the "left" option has a chance of winning, the same drums are beaten until public opinion slowly but surely slips below the threshold. It's maddening.

This election cycle is the first where parties had to (incompletely) disclose their funding. No surprise, the FDP and the SVP have far more funding than the rest.

One issue that cropped up is the splitting of the left : in some cantons, there was an unholy center to far right alliance, where the Center (center-right, some "pro-family" policies which make them vote with the socialists once in a while), FDP (neoliberal right) and SVP (far right) campaigned together, encouraging people to share votes amongst their lists. Contrast this with my canton (Vaud), where the broad left competed with the PS (euro-socialists), Greens, Ensemble à Gauche (left-liberals, if I'm being uncharitable), PdA all scrambling for votes from a far narrower ideological spectrum. And as a result, the far left parties narrowly missed out on getting seats. Certainly if they'd run a unified list, EàG and the PdA could have put a candidate in parliament between them. Alas, the left splits and the right marches in lockstep.

i say swears online posted:

lol germany is such a shitshow

https://twitter.com/dw_politics/status/1724494152824393915

Mister Bates posted:

the Dutch Socialist Party used to be named 'Communist Party of the Netherlands (Marxist-Leninist)' and was a Maoist party that split from another Maoist party because they (the splitters) didn't think intellectuals should be allowed to join

they have since moved so far to the right that they kicked their own youth organization out of the party en masse for being 'infiltrated by communist radicals'

webcams for christ posted:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvmnkRj/

e: do tiktok embed on mobile?

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/?????????????

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Better hope no Chinese rich person gets arrested or mildly inconvenienced in the US during your visit, American CIA operative.

quote:

Insane, manufacturing and service PMI in France is so bad it's approaching COVID shutdown levels. Same picture in Germany and several other European countries.

Europe is really losing on all sides these days: losing its cheap energy from Russia, losing whatever remained of its manufacturing to the US with the Inflation Reduction Act, losing its relations with the Global South due to its gobsmacking geopolitical incompetence, losing the next generation with plummetting education levels (check the latest OECD PISA results), losing the innovation and R&D race to the US and China, just losing, losing, losing.

And there's no-one, absolutely no-one that I can see in the political spectrum in any of the major European countries who seem to have the beginning of a start of a appealing vision to restore things. All I can see is either denial ("we're not losing"), blame the immigrants (as if they had anything to do with any of this), blame Russia or China, or some ludicrously naïve proposals like "let's embrace degrowth".

And that's the real issue: we lose so much because Europe has stunningly incompetent leadership who simply don't know what to do.

Tankbuster posted:

lmao extraterritorial rights. Unequal treaties eh?

quote:

Also, any "agitation against supposed 'imperialism' and 'militarism" and any "rejection of nation states and the European Union" should be put on the index of banned organisations. The Administrative Court even declared it unconstitutional to "denigrate" the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) and the secret service "as undemocratic and directed against the population."

quote:

The SGP is appealing to the Supreme Court after the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that the SGP’s surveillance by the Secret Service is appropriate, because, it claimed, left-wing criticism of capitalism is unconstitutional in Germany.

Regarde Aduck posted:

lol at hairsplitting, we're ok with you Turkish now, but the Arabs... oh heavens no. Using a weird attempt to sound progressive in order to springboard into overt racism.

webcams for christ posted:

"women couldn't vote nationwide in Switzerland until 1990" gets so many good reactions lmao

Horseshoe theory posted:

quote:

Modern history
Appenzell Innerrhoden was the last canton in Switzerland to grant women the right to vote on local issues, being forced to do so only in 1990 when two women from Appenzell filed a lawsuit in the Swiss Federal Court and won. A centuries-old law forbidding women to vote was changed in 1991, when Switzerland's federal court ordered the canton to grant women the right to vote.[7]

Appenzell Innerrhoden was the canton with the smallest percentage of approval votes (at 50.8% compared to the Swiss-wide average of 64.1%) in the "Marriage for All" referendum completed on 26 September 2021, making it the most hesitant canton for equal marriage for gay and lesbian citizens.[8][9]

mila kunis posted:

I've long held that the standards of living in america's vassal states in europe are too high. They need to start getting the latin america treatment, that they've walked into the beginning of this process willingly by cutting themselves off from cheap energy supplies is pretty funny

tazjin posted:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...al-gas-exports/

lol, sorry about your economy, Germany

webcams for christ posted:

reads like they're pausing regulatory approval on the expansion or creation of new LNG export facilities, not limiting existing export operations

Honest Thief posted:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/o...fevlSEb6nyuY%3d

Varoufakis new article on the shaping of the Eu was really interesting with some insight how this poo poo show got up

quote:

Today, both Delors’ and Schäuble’s visions lay in ruins, as if in a Greek tragedy. The way the euro crisis was managed put paid to Delors’ vision of a Europe in the image of a social-democratic Greater France, and it ruined Schäuble’s attempt to safeguard the postwar model at the heart of a fiscally sovereign Germany that continues to lose itself in a mercantilist Europe.

Back when the euro was still on the drawing board, neither Delors nor Schäuble could have imagined, or would condone, Europe’s inane response to the euro’s inevitable crisis. The combination of massive austerity and monetary largesse that preserved the eurozone in its original format, which both Delors and Schäuble correctly deemed unviable, is the reason why Europe is now politically fragmented and in secular decline. History, once more, proved a cruel master of noteworthy Europeans who refused to see that Europe’s interests are in direct opposition to the interests of its ruling classes.

Lostconfused posted:

economic collapse WITH covid.

crepeface posted:

https://www.reuters.com/world/what-we-know-about-italian-development-plan-africa-2024-01-29/

quote:

ROME, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Italian government unveiled at a summit on Monday details of a long-awaited project aimed at boosting development in Africa, hoping it will help spark economic growth that will curb irregular immigration to Europe.

Here are the main points of the "Mattei Plan" - named after the late Enrico Mattei, who founded state oil company Eni - as outlined by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

AREAS OF INTERVENTION
The Italian plan will be developed along five main policy pillars: education and training; agriculture; health; water; and energy - which is the most significant for Rome.

The aim is to make Italy an energy hub to transport natural gas supplies from Africa to the rest of Europe, with Italian energy major Eni set to play a key role in the initiative.

The government said it wanted to strengthen energy efficiency and promote the use of renewable energies.

Meloni listed an array of small pilot projects in the various segments, including a centre for training on renewable energy in Morocco, redevelopment of Tunisian schools, improving primary care for mothers and children in Ivory Coast, supporting farmers in northern Egypt, developing the biofuels sector in Kenya, an agriculture monitoring project in Algeria and work on water networks in the Congo Republic.

The prime minister said education was key to success, because Africa needed to train its own professionals to build schools, hospitals and infrastructure. She also said agriculture was crucial to development, and that Italy would aim to offer technology to increase the amount of cultivatable land.

FUNDING
Meloni said Italy would set aside an initial 5.5 billion euros ($5.95 billion) for the Mattei plan, including public guarantees for investment projects and 3 billion euros from a climate fund set up in 2021 to promote international environmental projects.

She said Rome was also looking to involve international financial institutions, the European Union and other nations in the financing of the plan.
Meloni said her government would also work with state-lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) on a new financial tool to lure private investment into the Mattei plan.

CDP and state investment agencies SACE and SIMEST, will open new offices in Africa, including in Morocco and Egypt. The Foreign Ministry said it had prepared a new package of subsidised financing for Africa totalling 200 million euros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Jr7fDAP-w

diplomatic "hey gently caress you, you didn't consult us about your plans"

webcams for christ posted:

not even the right nations to be targeting lmao

this is just a fig leaf to be hawkish against China et al, at the expense of the European population.

from the FT in May 2023: