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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
big changes still happening in Europe
fascinating

Their nation got split, not North, S, E , W but a splintered vote

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So far, the politics of Europe have been Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ("The more things change, the more it's the same thing")

GREECE: Syriza was elected to accomplish two goals: Stay in the EU, and reverse austerity. The referendum was an overwhelming vote against austerity. but it didn't mention the cost: leaving the EU, so the vote's meaning was equivocal. Once Tsipras was elected and after negotiations with the EU went nowhere, Tsipras threw his lot with the EU, and Greece has been under the boot of the EU ever since.

PORTUGAL: Also elected a bare majority anti-austerity Parliament. But the anti-austerity party turned around and pledged its support to austerity.

FRANCE: Elected Marine Le Pen's party to six regions in the first round of voting, which she lost in the second round.

The reality is that policies around the Euro and the central bank are highly undemocratic, by design. National parliaments and even the EU Parliament have no influence. The current driver of fiscal, financial, and economic policy seems to be the big lending banks of Germany - which can twist any debtor nation's arms into going along with sanctions, refugees, gas pipelines, or national budgets. The only way for a nation to regain control of its policies is to withdraw from using the Euro common currency.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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The head of the club CDU / CSU in the German Bundestag Volker Kauder argued for sanctions against Polish “if the country will continue to disregard the standards of law”.

In an interview with the weekly magazine “Der Spiegel”, discussed on Saturday in the online edition, Kauder stated inter alia that “when found in breach of European Member States (European Union) must have the courage to reach for sanctions”.

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Hungary to block sanctions on Poland, Warsaw grip on media & judiciary tightens
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says he will veto any possible sanctions the European Union aims at Poland. Warsaw has come under pressure after the Law and Justice Party was elected in October and moved to bring state media under government control.

Prime Minister Orban had a meeting with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s Law and Justice Party (PiS), on Wednesday. During the discussion, he said Hungary would oppose any sanctions against its Central European neighbor.

“The European Union should not think about applying any sort of sanctions against Poland, because that would require full unanimity and Hungary will never support any sort of sanctions against Poland,” Orban told public radio in an interview, as cited by Reuters.

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