Best mediterranean country?

[Bereta_Eder]

Florida of the EU?

Well that's funny you should mention it because when Greece was about to enter the EU some people in Greece asked themselves: so what we going to become in that monster block?

And the punchline was: the waiters of Europe

[Bereta_Eder]

That was used as a retort of the opposition to the governing party IIRC for lack of investments in heavy industry and other productive sectors.

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by VetLegion

I think Italy is already on that track, with about 48% of population over 60 years old. And most of them live up to 85+ years (my grandgrandmother is going to be 103 in a few months )

wow. my oldest granny is 90. had a hard life under at least 5 different regimes, never learned to write but still going strong

do old folks from for example germany move to Italy, or is that 48% just your own old folks?

you are going to need a lot of immigrants to help the economy

bad luck for you, you mostly get albanians which come together with their mafia.

yup.

the anti-Mafia commettee already stated that the Albanese Mafia is already running over half of the former Sicilian and Neaples Mafia stuff.

And yes... those are just our own old folks

That's why even Berlusconi had to create laws PROTECTING immigration, rather than outlawing it.

Saluti

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW Vetty, I have already visited Croatia (when you were still in Yugoslavia).

I only remember some very nice buildings in (what's the name of the capital?) oh yes Zagreb (sp in english?)

[VetLegion]

the anti-Mafia commettee already stated that the Albanese Mafia is already running over half of the former Sicilian and Neaples Mafia stuff.

didnt Carla I eat little kids for lunch del Ponte become famous by cracking some tough mafiosos? Let her loose on albanians Balkan states would be grateful

BTW Vetty, I have already visited Croatia (when you were still in Yugoslavia).

I only remember some very nice buildings in (what's the name of the capital?) oh yes Zagreb (sp in english?)

Zagreb is my hometown. if you get here again, all the drinks are on me

[Bereta_Eder]

Same here whenever you visit Athens

[VetLegion]

And the punchline was: the waiters of Europe

yes too much service industry is bad
in Croatia we have some shipyards which are big industry but are unprofitable so there are going to be lot more waiters to compete with you

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by VetLegion

the anti-Mafia commettee already stated that the Albanese Mafia is already running over half of the former Sicilian and Neaples Mafia stuff.

didnt Carla I eat little kids for lunch del Ponte become famous by cracking some tough mafiosos? Let her loose on albanians Balkan states would be grateful

BTW Vetty, I have already visited Croatia (when you were still in Yugoslavia).

I only remember some very nice buildings in (what's the name of the capital?) oh yes Zagreb (sp in english?)

Zagreb is my hometown. if you get here again, all the drinks are on me

Well, when the Italian mafia guys went down, the Albanese were ready to sub them off .

Saluti

[Datajack Franit]

LOOOL I can't believe you really said Croatia is superior to Italy and Greece

The only thing I can recall about Croatia actually are war and doped, ugly female skiers

[VetLegion]

I have been to Italy, have you been to Croatia Datajack?

and ahem, we kick your ass in football so if you need some more of it you know where to go

[VetLegion]

ugly female skiers

she is a godess!!

this means war you ignorant albertotombist!!!!

[Datajack Franit]

and ahem, we kick your ass in football so if you need some more of it you know where to go

lol and remember what happened to croatian team after that match?

she is a godess

She's the goddess of uglyness and of the total lack of ski tecnique

For apolytoners- and poor Paiktis living in a mountainless country aka not even a chance have some slightest interest to the winter olympics we're talking about Janica Kostelic

[Gangerolf]

The Florida of Europe must be Spain, especially the Alicante area (Costa Blanca?) and the Canary Islands.

[Bereta_Eder]

Actually we are not mountainless. We have plenty of mountains.

It's just that for some reason skiing never caught on in this country as a widespread sport.

There's snow in winter BTW in many of those mountains and there are skiing centers.

It just didn;t caught on.

(maybe because sea skiing was far more accessible? )

[Datajack Franit]

We'll be waiting for the first greek olympic gold in the next games then