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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you said before that IRL you live in Slovakia. I'm just saying, imo sounds like a former country within the Soviet empire, where constitution and rule of law did not necessarily correspond.
Indeed, it was a totalitarian soviet country but it was reformed twice, first time when we abolished communism in 1990 and second time when we split into two countries in 1993. Our current constitution was written in October 1992 (I think) and was heavily influenced by western european countries. The problem is they keep making new laws contradicting the constitution, or they try to codify new EU norms without thinking of our own older laws.
Sheepiania and New Sylvan
Regarding traditions, the European Commission is not competent in this field. Poland and Hungary aren't getting into trouble because of their abortion or gender policies, but for other political reasons, such as the fact that their constitutional courts are becoming a joke.
I agree that Hungary is off the rails, I’m still on the fence with Poland. With Poland I’ve seen a lot more “the EU thinks” and “the EU wants” than “the EU knows” and “the EU has”
I can tell you about one disaster that almost became reality this year. You can park your car on sidewalks. That means you can park your car almost anywhere in the city, all you have to do is leave enough space for both cars on the road and pedestrians on the sidewalk. 2 wheels on the road, 2 wheels on the sidewalk, easy parking anywhere you want. Now the EU decided to ban this and our parliament passes it into our law too, without any thinking. Now everybody who works in the traffic department starts pressuring them to cancel it because our cities were designed around this way of parking since the invention of the automobile and banning it would cause the collapse of our entire infrastructure. Luckily they were smart enough and cancelled this new EU law only few days before it took effect.
We have been doing X past 100 years and it has been working. EU says to change X so we mindlessly change X.
Next issue, coming in hot in 2023: Germany got rid of its nuclear power plants. Time to do the same here where more than 50% of the country is nuclear powered! Freeze to death because the EU said so!
Well, if you don't mind me saying, time to invest in solar and wind Energy...
Reason = German lobbying in EU institutions
Germany is currently exerting considerable pressure on the EU institutions to undermine nuclear energy. Because of their narrow-minded dogmatism, german politicians decided to get rid of nuclear energy, a clean zero CO2 energy source, and now it doesn't want that other countries keep using this interesting, clean and cheap source of energy because it could make other countries more competitive than them.
France tried to exert counter-pressure and thus made an "alliance" with Poland, Slovakia, Finland, the Czech in order for the European Commission to count nuclear power as green energy. They succeeded, but right now Germany is trying to cancel that.
Nova tyrnavia and Shahi Bengal
A fellow nuclear enjoyer I see.
Republic of Mesque, Sheepiania, and France Europe
Do I have another story from life for you... As you might know, I work at the development department of one small unnamed town. The EU offered us to subsidize 50% of any "green" project in 2022. They recommended us bus stops with solar panels. The solar panels would power two monitors playing ads. The bus stop also had outlets for people to charge their phones. One of these was 25 000€. My boss responded with this: we do not have a cent to spare in our budget, our current priority is fixing the roads, can you subsidize half of the cost for that? They responded: no, we can only subsidize green projects. Sadly, the town needed roads, not solar powered bus stops playing ads. And thats my dystopian solar panel story.
Ah, the EU. Very interesting topic. Some hate it, some love it.
I personally can't speak for others here but my country basically only profited from it to this point. And yes, some policies of the EU may seem outlandish at first, most often they actually are, are often not that stupid if you dig deeper into why they proposed it. Like think seriously about it: Why should the EU enforce a law that is only going to hurt it. Some laws really are just there to probably meet quotas or some might only work in certain areas. Maybe that's what the EU could change. Laws that benifit one area but don't benefit the other area could maybe be a option. These are still multiple countries.
And personally I'm very split when it comes to nuclear energy. At the same time it is a fairly clean energy source which does not create Co2 but on the other hand... most nuclear power plants are really out of date and the chances for... you know, even though very slim are still there.
I think that's everything I can say about the topics.
Coming from your self-admittedly (in so many words) dystopian country, haha.
Whether you like the EU or not it's sort of nice to see Europe at least trying to be united after being separated for so long, specially after WWII and the Cold War.
Sheepiania, Sargk, and Shahi Bengal
Like when I once aborted a mission to crash my toy trains because Pugsley beat me to the explosion, with his science experiment upstairs ~ Gomez
I just love sitting on the edge of my seat in suspense ~ Morticia
Supierland and Sargk
I have tons of ALTs, 99.9% of them are redundant lol.
Sheepiania and Sargk
Dismissing pointless issues is my favorite part of being a head of state.
Sheepiania, Sargk, and Shahi Bengal
Second category for me.
However, I allow myself to constantly evaluate its effectiveness, and would like the EU to reform certain aspects on the one hand, but on the other hand to build itself even more and to take on a greater scope, in areas such as defense or health.
By the way, I am a sure proof that being patriotic and pro-European are two compatible things.
look here I just want the power shedding to end. Like how hard is it for the goverment to give me 24 hours of uniterrputed energy. It's 31 degrees celcius, and how on gods green earth and i supposed to survive without a fan.
On top of that we've invested in a off-grid solar panel system , so that we won't be relient on the grid, but the nincompoops that run the company, haven't yet received the parts
Sheepiania, France Europe, and Shahi Bengal
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Now, about energy, the atom is not a religion for me, I consider myself to be just pragmatic on the issue.
It is an absolute necessity to invest massively in renewable energies, wether your country has nuclear power plants or not. But the electricity you don't produce with renewable sources (because the energy transition takes some time) should, if possible, be produced with nuclear power rather than with fossil fuels. Coal, gas and oil power plants are extremely polluting, and in view of the urgency of the situation, it is unacceptable that developed countries still use them on a large scale if they have a totally decarbonized alternative such as nuclear power. The pollution generated by carbon emissions from fossil fuels is causing an environmental catastrophe and a collapse of biodiversity comparable to several nuclear explosions I think. Knowing that carbon emissions necessarily take place while nuclear accidents do not necessarily take place.
I strongly believe that old and worn out nuclear power plants should be closed for safety reasons. This is what the French government is doing. They have definitively closed the Fessenheim power plant in the Alsace region. On the other hand, some politicians, espescially on the right or far right wing, are against renewable sources and want to rely on nuclear plants only. Marine Le Pen for example said she would re-open old plants like Fessenheim if she won the Presidency.
Sorry to express it this way, but I have the impression that your country is run by idiots. This is of course no offense to your people, I'm just referring to the clowns who live in palaces and hand the country over to China on a platter.
we voted these idiots in france. And to top of it we also decided to give them a supermajority of 65 percent in the parliament. So that makes the close to 7 million individuals who voted for the present government, idiots.
Sheepiania and France Europe
we're constantly embroiled in dynasty politics. out of the 13 people who have become prime ministers ( four of them have become PM more than 3 times ,the incumbent is 8 times; and is apparently a world record). Half of the parliament haven't passed Advanced Level Examinations, only 14 percent having a degree or equivalent. out of the 200 plus MP's only 8 are women.
What do you expect to happen.
Sheepiania and France Europe
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