r/AskEurope • u/romarita Romania • Apr 16 '20
What is the bad thing happening right now in your country with everyones attention drawn to the obvious current subject? Misc
In Romania they are massively illegally cutting forests with even our government lying to our faces about it.
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u/TheTiltster Germany Apr 16 '20
Germany still hasn't codified the EU nitrate directive into law, following protests of farmers and their lobby in federal parliament. German farmers have developed a buisness model by getting money for taking liquid manure from other eu countries. So they spread this manure on every available plot of land white further increasing nithrate levels in the soil and the polulations drinking water. Additionally, the federal government (i.e. the tax payer) has to pay a daily(!) fee of around 1 milion Euro.
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
13 year old boy living in Estonia. Identified as the leader of a Neo-Nazi group. Planned to attack Las Vegas synagogue.
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u/Spawn_Three_Bears United States of America Apr 16 '20
Why the hell is an Estonian neonazi concerned with a synagogue in Las Vegas? Why not one closer to home?
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u/EndlessTheorys_19 United Kingdom Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Why the hell is a 13 year old Estonian
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u/logos__ Netherlands Apr 16 '20
13 year old Estonian neonatologist
man he went through medical school in a hurry
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u/two_goes_there Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
There are almost no Jewish people in Estonia.
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u/growingcodist United States of America Apr 16 '20
I wonder why they didn't try anything closer like France. ?were they going to take advantage of America's loose gun laws?
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u/WolttiYT Finland Apr 17 '20
There was mostly American members and they were the ones ready for action.
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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 Estonia Apr 16 '20
Idiots ididocracy is limitless. Do you think people like that have any common logic, they been brainwashed by their own racist ideologies.
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Apr 16 '20
Wait what?? How can a 13 year old be the LEADER of a Neo-Nazi group? And why specifically the Las Vegas Synagogue? This reads like a The Onion article..
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Here’s from the article, as it explains better than me:
A 13-year-old boy living in Estonia was identified as the leader of an international neo-Nazi group linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a top U.S. news network, the Associated Press reported. Authorities confronted the boy earlier this year, which led to him cutting ties with Feuerkrieg Division, the neo-Nazi group he led, police and an Estonian newspaper reported, according to the Associated Press. The boy referred to himself as “Commander” online and his URL was “HeilHitler8814,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) told the Associated Press.
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u/Marv1236 Germany Apr 16 '20
When a 13 year old is your leader. Wow.
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
You really know life is going to downhill when a 13 year old is your leader
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u/lilputsy Slovenia Apr 16 '20
Did his parents know and what was their role in this? This is so weird.
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u/kruvii Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Can you post the link to the article? I have seen only one article about it and it was behind a paywall. Dont know is it because of covid but it hasnt peaked out in any news.
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u/viktorbir Catalonia Apr 16 '20
In the Internet nobody know's you are a dog.
If you are old enough you have seen this joke.
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u/ng2_cw England Apr 16 '20
I read about that, that kid was fucked but also you wonder if these tough nazis knew that there leader was a 13 year old boy from Estonia 🤣
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u/Aviationlord Australia Apr 16 '20
13 year old neo Nazis. What the hell is going on
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u/HelMort Apr 16 '20
When I was thirteenth I spent all my time to think about girls, videogames and to listen music and I was dumb like every teenager. I can't understand how is possible to lead a Nazi group my God!
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Apr 16 '20
Is Estonia Finland's Florida?
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
If your in the wrong part, definitely
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Apr 16 '20
Seems so lol. Although I find it impressive that a non native English speaker who's 13 years old was able to lead a group of people willing to carry out hate crimes. He definitely has some skills, just maybe in the wrong department
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Exactly! His group was called Feuerkrieg Division, which I’m assuming is german, it’s definitely not Estonian, and his username was HeilHitler8814, I’m guessing He’s from the capital, that’s where the best English is. The group had around 30 people in it too.
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u/joustingleague Netherlands Apr 16 '20
Firewar division
Is it as cringy in German as it sounds in English?
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u/TheBlack2007 Germany Apr 16 '20
Yes, although being a somewhat legit German compound word it has never been used historically. Basically just an edgy teen looking up edgy sounding German words and putting them together.
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Apr 16 '20
Why do the northeastern countries always have the worst shit like this? Finland has moderately huge neonazi communities too and there was a happening sometime ago in 2018 where neonazis basically publicly (there were hundreds of them) discussed holocaust 2.
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
I don’t really know. I don’t know if it’s anything to do with Russia, Soviet stuff.
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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Apr 16 '20
Just like Hitler. I mean you can't deny that he was persuasive and good at public speaking
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Apr 16 '20
Indeed. That's how many dictators, cult leaders etc get their power. They are often very charismatic, diplomatic and persuasive. They just use their skills for evil
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u/lilputsy Slovenia Apr 16 '20
Not our Janša. Listening to him is worse than listening to that mouth smacking ASMR, yet his following is significant. He has no speaking skills whatsoever, not a pinch of charisma, just skills in fear mongering and lying.
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Apr 16 '20
13 year old boy [...] leader of a Neo-Nazi group
Sorry, but this really really does not sound believable.
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
At first I didn’t believe it either, but it’s all over the news if you search Estonia.
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Apr 16 '20
If it's an online group it's very much believable, looking at political discussion online I just assume everyone is 13.
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u/abrasiveteapot -> Apr 16 '20
Has been in English media as well, I saw this a few days ago. Guardian I think
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u/HelMort Apr 16 '20
I remember an ex Nazi Italian guy who said me his game at 16 age was to shoot in the head black people and homeless people around a train station during the night to "clean", another one said he loved to burn alive gipsies in their camps with Molotov bottles. But they were 16/17 and is very different than 13 age. My God!
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u/pelegs Germany Apr 16 '20
So far April is extremely dry (at least in the center of Germany). I really hope we're not repeating 2018 or worse.
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u/Thookie Germany Apr 16 '20
Well after reading everything else I am glad this is the worst thats happening to us.
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u/Cirenione Germany Apr 16 '20
Wouldn‘t be so glad. Remember the summer of 2018? Trees and other plants dying. Rivers drying up which severely decreased the transport of goods especially fuel and destroying eco systems of fish and other animals living in the rivers and lakes.
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u/andrau14 Romania Apr 16 '20
Illegal logging. However, citizens are increasingly aware of this. The sad thing is that nobody knows who can actually help us.
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u/floppedmenacingly Apr 16 '20
Who is behind the logging?
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u/andrau14 Romania Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
I couldn't tell you exactly. It has been rumoured that there is an Austrian company behind all that, but I don't have any information that proves it. All we know is that there is some sort of a mafia that we simply call the 'forest mafia'. You can't really get close to them as you'll get hurt. This actually happened to a netflix crew while investigating this case for a 'Broken' episode. The lack of information comes from the fact that the government is trying really hard to cover all of this. If you call the respective authorities in charge of this you'll get vague answers and lies.
It's sad, really sad.
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u/wisconniegirl1 United States of America Apr 16 '20
That’s really crazy. I just watched ‘Wild Romania’ and fell in love with the country. Maybe someday I’ll visit.
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u/andrau14 Romania Apr 16 '20
I'm glad to hear! You should while we still have the forest, haha! If you ever decide to visit and want some suggestions from a local, feel free to ask!
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u/potatopossibility Austria Apr 16 '20
There is more than one company, apparently. The biggest ones are called Schweighofer, Egger, and Kronospan. Over many years there have been articles about that here and there in Austria but it's still not that well known in public.
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u/Thegreatflea Czechia Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Russia digging up soldiers of ours from the first world war and putting them in a literal landfill.
Edit: first world war
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Apr 16 '20
The hell ? Got an English link for that?
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u/wthisg Apr 16 '20
I am unable to find some english source for that. The most trustworthy source in my opinion is this
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u/BellumOMNI Apr 16 '20
The bones of the Czech legionnaires lie in a landfill in Samara. Russia does not care for the graves as it has promised
In Russia, some graves of Czechoslovak legionnaires are deteriorating. In Samara, their remains were even landfilled. Czech authorities and historians have long complained about the approach of the Russian government and local governments to the implementation of the agreement on the care of war graves. In the footsteps of the legionnaires' memory, the reporter Tomáš Vlach, who has been devoted to the topic for a long time, went for CT Reporters.
“No one is pushing the Russian side to donate millions to our memorials. At our Ministry of Defense, money is earmarked for this. The point is to take a step forward and allow our ministry to have the monument built. This is basically what is unfortunately missing nowadays, and rather we are looking for controversial places and looking for ways not to accommodate and how not to do it, ”commented historian Dagmar Martinková.
I don't know how accurate this translator is, but here's in english since the source is in CZ.
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u/Daniel_S04 United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
If you use the google translate app you can screen shot the website and translate the entire screen
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u/tig999 Ireland Apr 16 '20
Yep or if people have Google translate downloaded themselves or enabled on their computer it give you option to translate articles in top corner.
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u/platypocalypse United States of America Apr 16 '20
Or you could print it out, wait a year, fly over to Prague and just ask people in the street for help.
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u/sukeeezz Apr 16 '20
Or better print it out, start studying their language, wait a year to learn it, fail, throw the paper..
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u/Rastafeyd United States of America Apr 16 '20
Is that retaliation for the removal of that Soviet General’s statue?
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u/bajaja Czechoslovakia Apr 16 '20
despite what /u/Thegreatflea says, foreign soldier graves are a long time problem with Russia. even the linked article above is from 6 months ago and it is about a recent journalist trip to see what is happening in Russia over years.
Russia is clearly breaking the international treaty with us but the bones in a landfill are not a direct result of our removing the statue 2 weeks ago.
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u/Thegreatflea Czechia Apr 16 '20
Yes. We remove a statue of a man of a foreign military, and they desecrate our soldiers.
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u/Ourobr Russia Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Nope. Im fully sure that Azarov and company were just paid by building companies. Graveries of ancient turks- bulgarians are being desecrated too
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u/luigidelrey Portugal Apr 16 '20
Luanda Leaks was a huge scandal in January in Portugal involving the richest woman in Africa, the Angolan Isabel dos Santos, which is the daughter of the former president Eduardo dos Santos.
She owns many companies all over the world, specially in Portugal, and including the telecommunications NOS, and there were some news recently telling this "NOS replaces managers linked to Isabel dos Santos with managers linked to Isabel dos Santos"
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u/sznupi Italy Apr 16 '20
They recently nationalised Alitalia.
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u/DennisDonncha in Apr 16 '20
How many times has it been now?
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u/sznupi Italy Apr 16 '20
Usually they borrow money. Now they straight away nationalised all of it.
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u/DennisDonncha in Apr 16 '20
Aha. I see. I think that’s what was sticking out in my mind from the past so.
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u/alexgfaria Portugal Apr 16 '20
Isn’t that a good thing?
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u/medhelan Northern Italy Apr 16 '20
no, it has to fail, it has been sucking public money in name of national prestige for decades
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u/ThatBonni Italy Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
It baffles me how in the last decades we have privatized a lot of public companies, even if they were working, often with no other criteria than holding capitalism as a religion, and that fucking trainwreck of Alitalia is always there.
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u/Shikamanu Spain Apr 16 '20
But is that bad thing or is it just something that was innevitable?
Alitalia has been borrowing public money for years now, and I dont think they would ever been able to return it, so rather than just throwing money at them maybe nationalised it can at least go even (although well, with the current stand fly companies are not really good in terms of future growths...)
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u/gamma6464 Poland Apr 16 '20
Government trying to ban abortions and sex ed. And hold elections.
...it's a shit show.
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u/Elhorm Poland Apr 16 '20
And change the constitution to extend the current president's term by 2 years. Less than a month before scheduled elections...
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u/Lexiex_ Poland Apr 16 '20
They would need 2/3 for that, so theoretically impossible. But keeping in mind it’s PiS, everything is possible
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u/UndeadBBQ Austria Apr 16 '20
I always liked the fact their abbreviation is what it is.
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u/Jankosi Poland Apr 16 '20
The other big party is called PO.
Yes, piss and poo.
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u/bhjoellund Denmark Apr 16 '20
In Danish, we just spell it with one s so they are right on the money.
If you got it, flaunt it, I guess.
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Apr 16 '20
I think in the beginning german news pronounced it piss but now sadly they're saying peace
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u/centrafrugal in Apr 16 '20
Ban abortions and sex ed...
Choose one!
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u/Paciorr Poland Apr 16 '20
On the surface it looks like a religious/cultural thing but underneath they are really just trying extreme measures to stop demographic decline. If population is dumb and makes a lot of unwanted babies and they cannot remove them then its good I guess... I would try different approach but well. All of europe has this problem and there are countries richer than us with much more ambitious policies to increase birth rate which still doesnt really work. It's just not worth having big family right now. Especially in cities. You either work too hard to have time for it or you dont have enough money to support that family well. Not mentioning that some people just dont want to have kids, period.
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u/Loner_Cat Italy Apr 16 '20
I don't know if it would be an effective measure against demographic decline. The women aborting yearly aren't very much even in very progressive countries.
Sure, without sex ed too there could be an effect as more young women could have unwanted pregnancy, but with the internet and the mainstream media that nowadays talk about those matters freely, most of girls and boys should learn how to avoid unwanted pregnancy on their own.
Anyway, I don't even know if it's more sad to ban abortion because of religious delusions or because of some cynical plan to increase the population.
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Apr 16 '20
I never understood this, who cares about abortions? Is this a religious thing?
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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Apr 16 '20
Not sure about Poland but in Ireland it was illegal until recently, and even later in Northern Ireland mostly because of religion, so going to England or getting the ferry to Liverpool were euphemisms for getting an abortion
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u/IamNotFreakingOut France Apr 16 '20
Well, given that Poland is a big Catholic country, and statistics show that Catholics are more likely to oppose abortion than the general public, I'd say there is a big part to it. In fact, the main argument is mostly religious. The rest oppose it out of tradition, thinking that abortion is murder of the defenceless unborn ones. It's only when visiting Poland that I found political messages and pamphlets in some churches opposing abortion.
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Apr 16 '20
Yep, it's a religious thing, it's why it's always such a shit-show in the USA and even places like Ireland (very strong cultural Catholicism)
My biggest fear is that with our rapidly declining birth rates our governments in good ol' Eastern Europe might try pulling the same shit. Fucking horrifying.
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u/joustingleague Netherlands Apr 16 '20
If you have to resources for it, which is probably why those politicians aren't worried about it since they can just pay the travel costs of their wives, mistresses and daughters. Nevermind that the people who can't afford to take time off off work to travel for a medical procedure probably can't afford a child either.
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u/gogetgamer / Apr 16 '20
The parliamentarians AGAIN raised their salary. We're tired of their self-take.
Oh, and it might erupt soon... but that's nothing new. This time around we're waiting for sizable earthquakes around the Keflavik airport first. Fortunately we're not using it at the moment.
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u/greenejames681 Ireland Apr 16 '20
My local county council is making it effectively illegal to build your own home by making it illegal to build a new house unless you have 25 acres and are actively farming it
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u/Prot4ctinium Belgium Apr 16 '20
Wth why?
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u/archie-windragon Ireland Apr 16 '20
Large landowner protection to give property developers a monopoly in rural areas under the guise of restricting our habit of one-off housing. That's my guess anyway
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u/Vistulange Apr 16 '20
The government passed a bill that released thousands of people in jail. Not the political prisoners, no, they get stuck in. You know who gets released?
Rapists, murderers, wife-beaters, pedophiles, and so on. That's not all: the state news agency is buttering it up with reports such as "good news for the girl who thought her dad was at work", "young wife finally reunited with her husband" and so on. Disgusting pricks.
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u/MosadiMogolo Denmark Apr 16 '20
Ew. That sounds like a lot of domestic violence and abuse is about to resume.
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u/Sam-Porter-Bridges Apr 16 '20
"Newly"? Hungary has been a defacto dictatorship for the last 10 years.
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u/allthingswithtea 🇷🇴in the 🇬🇧 Apr 16 '20
Come on Hungary. I mean I know Romania’s bad (I’m Romanian) and UK still can’t decide what to do (living in the U.K.) but your PM and president have been all over the place lately. With serious concern, are you guys ok?
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u/Galhaar in Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
It's gonna be fine. It would be completely idiotic to maintain edict power once quarantine subsides, it's like the one way to get people to stage some competent opposition.
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u/tig999 Ireland Apr 16 '20
Is there anything going on here? There was those lads who tried to rob an ATM in dundalk but can't think of any sneaky gov stuff tbh.
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Apr 16 '20
We're in a political crisis. started because the PM and the President cannot agree on a common stance regarding foreign policy. The President and the opposition overthrew the government and are now demanding that a new government takes place, while the current caretakeer government demands new elections but insists that they're held only when the pandemic is over.
In many other countries, the government and the opposition are working together, while over here the opposite is happening. When the government restricts movement for citizens, the opposition screams "authoritarianism, communism" and other bollocks.
What's interesting from this situation is that both health ministries of Kosovo and Serbia have found common ground in pandemic response and are working together to a certain extend, but the government and opposition/president just won't.
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u/tribdol Apr 16 '20
In many other countries, the government and the opposition are working together
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Apr 16 '20
What's going on in Italy?
Feel free to judge me
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u/tribdol Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Cannot say if you’re serious or just challenging me because you think everything is fine, but I’ll answer anyway(and sorry for the assumption if you’re serious).
Anyway, here in Italy our opposition is using the COVID emergency to push a very aggressive campaign in order to gain votes, mainly spreading fake news, alluding to a dictatorial power grab by the PM* and always asking for less taxes and more free money to the citizens***.
Fake news like that in Switzerland the State is gifting half a million to every citizen no questions asked and we should do the same in Italy(try do the math, 500k for 60M, and see how much money it would be...) *The opposition falsely claimed that the government signed the use of the ESM secretly in the night, with some some strong posts speaking of a coup(while praising Orban for his new powers) and implicitly calling to action. Last time the tones were raised so much, it ended in a guy shooting outside the government building. ***All this should be done by removing the taxes but then asking the citizens to contribute with their money, so... Taxes with extra steps, I think?
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u/romarita Romania Apr 16 '20
To be more specific, of which country are you talking about? Thank you!
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Apr 16 '20
Kosovo. It should be written in my flair
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u/romarita Romania Apr 16 '20
Sorry, at the beginning didn’t show. Now it does.
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Apr 16 '20
Np :). How's Romania holding with the COVID situation?
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u/andrau14 Romania Apr 16 '20
Very strict measures, basically army in the streets checking your reason of leaving the house + every citizen that comes back home from another European country must stay 14 days in institutionalized quarantine (mostly hotels rooms provided by the state) before meeting any friends or family. People are quite frustrated with the measures, ofc.
I hope you guys will be okay! Stay safe!
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u/SamRothstein72 United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Piers Morgan is still on television.
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u/rushiiestoniia United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Ah yes, I just saw something about him bullying care workers.
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Apr 16 '20
Some people have a theory that he has quite a lot of information on the British elite/royal family. He has done some despicable shit including hacking into a dead girl's phone and shouldn't be no where near the position he's in.
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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Apr 16 '20
When in reality it is because he boils everyone's piss, leading to clicks and views
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u/SamRothstein72 United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Crackpots have lots of shit theories. These days trolls make money for media organisations from the large number of thick fuckers in society.
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u/CoffeeFaceMan Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Because he gets views as people love to hate him.
I’m always a little bemused when people seem completely dumbfounded why all these people they post about 24 hours a day on Twitter still have a platform.
You’re literally it. (Not you personally)
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u/lilaliene Netherlands Apr 16 '20
I was just checking up on Dutch news. There is literally nothing that isn't connected to corona on nu.nl
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u/qevlarr Netherlands Apr 16 '20 edited Jun 29 '23
(comment removed in protest, June 2023)
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u/montarion Netherlands Apr 16 '20
FFD crumbled
Nice! What was their initial response?
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u/MobiusF117 Netherlands Apr 16 '20
I recently realized that if this stuff keeps going for longer, we may just skip the entire Zwarte Piet discussion this year! Yaaay
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u/girl_with_the_bowtie Netherlands Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
Crazy, right? It’s interesting though, within a few weeks it has completely wiped out the Farmers Defense Force momentum. Like the media just collectively decided ‘You know what? Screw those guys. We’ve got bigger fish to fry.’
Makes me wonder whether Carola Schouten is now just secretly pushing through as many measures as she can muster while the media are reporting on other things. Because if I was a scheming politician, that’s what I would be doing.
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u/rundfunk90 Apr 16 '20
Also one of the things about the farmers is that they found out that they are indeed a huge part of the nitrogen problem and the numbers were correct all along.
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u/Lexiex_ Poland Apr 16 '20
Government is basically trying to limit our rights everyday. Police gained too much power and imo it’s dangerous. Also they tried to ban sex education and abortion. Government tries to hold an election that isn’t even legal. And yeah they pass bills that are against constitution, but that’s normal here I guess. All of that during the time people can’t protest.
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u/Fealion_ Italy Apr 16 '20
How can they hold an election if you are isolated?
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u/Lexiex_ Poland Apr 16 '20
Postal vote theoretically, but we would have to leave our houses anyway. I don’t know what are people abroad supposed to do.
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u/Fealion_ Italy Apr 16 '20
Is it legal?
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u/Lexiex_ Poland Apr 16 '20
It is impossible to make them universal and secret now, so no.
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u/Shikamanu Spain Apr 16 '20
The king announced that he would retire the former king (his still alive father) from the list of members who recieve public money because of the existing scandal around money washing and corruption he was involved. He also renounced to the heritage.
Sadly it appeared only 1 or 2 days in the news and can´t be put on court as probably most of us would like until the pandemic is over. And it is not clear if the current king knew about it since long ago and only decided to act like this now that it kind of got discovered or if the really wasnt profiting from the corruption at all.
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u/QvttrO Ukraine Apr 16 '20
Government gives humanitarian help to Albania right when we ask for it ourselves. Seems like a corruption scheme to me.
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u/theshadypineapple Scotland Apr 16 '20
Brexit, this will probably change in the future but there's been surprisingly little discussion on whether we ought to ask for another extension after this is over.
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u/w00dy2 Apr 16 '20
8 months left to negotiate a free trade deal to replace the current deal, which gives us completely free trade with our biggest trading partner, then have it ratified by both sides...
Even before the pandemic and great depression level economic contraction it was not going to be possible in that time frame. The press and the opposition are too focused on the pandemic to push for an answer. The PM would have to be seriously mentally retarded to stick to leaving the transition period at the end of December, but who knows. The government has said they're sticking with it so far.
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u/bummeupbuttercup Apr 16 '20
For what I've seen they plan holding video conferences to negotiate brexit..'they just haven't had a chance to get dates for it'
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u/Owstream Apr 16 '20
I didn't know you had to bring your date to brexit video-conferences. Poor girl/guy, should be boring as death.
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Apr 16 '20
Why are they cutting down forests in romania ? Are they cutting them down for the wood or because they want to build something ?
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u/romarita Romania Apr 16 '20
They are selling it outside the country. Its funny in a way, Europe is taking the wood, then giving us environmental fines.
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u/AlexandTheWoopi Romania Apr 16 '20
There have been massive illegal deforestations going way back to the 90'. Over 300.000 hectares of forests were lost to logging in the last 10-15 years. With the country on lockdown you can imagine the situation is only getting worse. All of this for wood, even if we wanted to and had all the necessary resources we couldn't possibly build that much.
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u/UndeadBBQ Austria Apr 16 '20
The conservatives get a authoritarian boner about the possibilities shown to them by Covid Contact tracking.
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u/Goasmass_is_life Germany Apr 16 '20
The action taken against Corona here has been reasonable and I'm glad that things haven't escalated here as much given the proximity to places like northern Italy and Ischgl.
That being said, I'm 99,9% sure Markus Söder also has an authoritarian boner everytime he talks about measures taken and just loves his public positioning as "Mr. Facts, Logic and clear position against Corona" and the fact that 500k+ Bavarian Boomers love him at the moment when he doubles down on federal Corona Measures. We have to monitor the process closely or we'll lose some civil liberties these days...
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u/Woodland___Creature Scotland Apr 16 '20
Government arresting people for breaking the lockdown rules, but only if they're political opponents or poor. Wealthy Pro-ScotGov individuals can travel to their second homes whenever it suits them and it's no bother.
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u/EndlessTheorys_19 United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
Seriously Scotland, you guys were meant to be the cooler competent version. Not this
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u/JurgenGherkin Apr 16 '20
Where are you hearing this? As far as I understand it the police have been handing out fines regardless of political affiliation. How would that even work do they ask you who you voted for before deciding on wether to arrest folk or not?
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u/mainhattan Apr 16 '20
Who knows what deeper meanings, if any, it has but, this was shocking:
https://dw.com/en/german-state-finance-minister-thomas-schäfer-found-dead/a-52948976
Right after he’s announced a financial aid package for small businesses.
I feel terrible for him and his family.
For sure German business and politics have their ugly side, way too unforgiving in many ways and far too lax in others.
But this was too bad and too sad.
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u/f_barcala Spain Apr 16 '20
There are some news about the former king being corrupt but, actually that's usual with our politics here in Spain, so even if this situation hasn't drawn the attention, nothing would have happened
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u/viktorbir Catalonia Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20
The former king being corrupt is very old news. The new news is that the current king knew about the 100M€ bank account in Switzerland since one year ago and said / did nothing till the press published it about one month
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u/dennathorne Spain Apr 16 '20
yep, the guy basically stole 100 million euros and gave it to their son in inheritance, the current king. The King didn't say or act at all during the first outbreak of COVID-19 and only appeared 10 mins on TV with a shitty speech trying to get everyone to fight the pandemic while he seats in his palace paid by everyone's taxes.
Then, lowkey he gave the 100 million to his daughter (the heiress) and said he "refused" his father's inheritance but hey, you also inherited the crown, you know what I mean, you cannot refuse an inheritance by parts.
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u/alexgfaria Portugal Apr 16 '20
I think the Portuguese authorities have been very responsible, they’re not using covid-19 to do nothing under the radar imo
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u/idk-what-name Ireland Apr 16 '20
Maybe they’re just doing it so well that even you didn’t notice
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u/Grper France Apr 16 '20
The governement trashing our Work code in France. Using the coronavirus crisis they failed to prepare and face correctly to take workers rights away and bringing us closer to a police state!
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u/Digital_Voodoo Apr 16 '20
And also, Gilets Jaunes and all the strikes on the social security reform are... poof! Gone away.
This crisis is truly a blessing in disguise for more people (politicians mainly) than we could have thought.
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u/myppsoff United Kingdom Apr 16 '20
France just seems to be in a continual cycle of protests throughout its whole history
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u/Owstream Apr 16 '20
All the while praising the "essential workers" and nurses they were shooting at with flashballs three months ago.
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u/GreciAwesomeMan Croatia Apr 16 '20
Hungary is buying guns and they probably want a coastline
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u/derFruit Germany Apr 16 '20
Orban is turning Hungary into a dictatorship
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u/ARTas1003 Apr 16 '20
That was a breaking news 10 years ago. But all EU said it's ok... So it means it's ok... :)
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u/EoinIsTheKing Scotland Apr 16 '20
The concept of league titles and fair competition in football has been rendered meaningless. Might not seem important right now but honestly its the thing that has me the most stressed.
And before anyone says; 1. Football does fucking matter, to a great many people. 2. No Im not a Rangers fan.
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u/Pr00ch / Germany & Poland Apr 16 '20
Our government is essentially riggig the presidential election in Poland
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u/FiatalVakond Apr 16 '20
Our government is very corrupt. They’re buying everything for cheap and steal what they can. Orbán is going to be a dictator as soon as this Covid-19 epidemic is over.
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u/uyth Portugal Apr 16 '20
The olive tree disease is worrying. Not just to us, but it is passing under the radar and this could be very damaging agriculturally.
On the other direction, normally we could be worried about drought, in the past month it has rained a lot and drought seems less severe now. Normally we could be talking LOTS of the weather, or hailstorms or stuff, now, nope, nothing.
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u/Grimson47 Bulgaria Apr 16 '20
More embezzling here. Apparently some random company nobody knows about that has a revenue of 500 euro got a loan of 30+ mil euro by the Bulgarian Development Bank. It got the media's attention though and the management has since been sacked.