Estonia joins the EU

[Odin]

Thanks for correcting me, Spiff, my bad, I still say screw the French farmers (and the Poles too).

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Well, the Ottoman empire practically was a German protectorate at that time too

Yes, but did the Ottoman's have their constitution written by the Germans and have anything remotely like the Platt amendment in it? You also have to remember that the US invaded Cuba and took it away from Spain then set them up as a virtual colony.

[Drake Tungsten]

Turkey

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Spiffor


First, it's France, and soon Poland, who 'steal' money from other countries to subzidize their farmers. More precisely, an agreement that was reached decades ago, and that France staunchly defends is that agricultural subsidies are the affair of the EU. Basically, it means EU countries pool their funds for subsidies, and they give an appropriate part of the funds to the countries that 'need' them.
Since Germany is the richest country in the EU, it pays the most. And since it has very few peasants, and a much less important agriculture than France (EU's top farming country), it gets much less money. In the end, we Frenchmen 'steal' money to the Germans

[Fez mode]You criminal, you provide nothing, yet you want to steal money fromthe EU![/Fez mode]

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Spiffor: unfortunately this matter is not on the agenda. We can't even break the visa circle yet. The EU can expand for all that we care. But conditions for the Russian people should not become worse as a result of the expansion. That is if we are friends, of course.

I guess you'll just have to throw in with us, then.

[Ecthy]

DVR = Deutsche Volksrepublik or German People's Republic, after the forced reunification of West and East Germany as well as Austria under socialist rule

[TCO]

Try for the Sudetanland and Danzig as well?

[Ecthy]

nah, they'd belong to our socialist brothers, the Polish and Czechoslovakian comrades

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Turkey

Turkey is not a democracy. It is not located in Europe (to the most part). It is infamous for human rights abuses. Why should EU take them in?

[Heresson]

The more countries join the EU, the tighter a new Berlin Wall shrinks around Russia.

So, your neighbours can't do what they want because You don't feel good about it?

Hell, now we need visas to visit even the closest neighbours! F*ck this goddamn EU

It's Russia that makes problems at the borders. Russian visas on Polish-Russian borders are 6x higher than Polish ones...

When do you join then ?

When their problems with imperial ambitions, violating human rights, corruption etc will get smaller.
That's the optimistic version.

Spiffor: unfortunately this matter is not on the agenda. We can't even break the visa circle yet. The EU can expand for all that we care. But conditions for the Russian people should not become worse as a result of the expansion. That is if we are friends, of course.

Russians will be treated better than any other EU neighbours anyway.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
nah, they'd belong to our socialist brothers, the Polish and Czechoslovakian comrades

Maybe we should seperate the East Germans as well. I hear that place sucks.

[chequita guevara]

Those Estonian women don't look so nice to me. Their faces are all pointy. Man, you guys will just chase anything in a skirt.

[Ben Kenobi]

Funny how che and I have the same taste in women.

[TCO]

Does the dance...

[Ted Striker]

chegitz and Ben Kenobi = gay