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Luisa, bitte üb' Widerstand. Die Briten haben auf dich gewartet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments...ave;re_leurope/

Notre Mère l'Europe. Die dummen Briten haben diese frohe Botschaft schon 1942 nicht verstanden.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...qnzalB9Xab0Pkmk

Schrecklich, diese hasserfüllten Menschen...

Ganz offensichtlich eben nur die alte, weisse, männliche und zurückgebliebene Landbevölkerung!

Gezielte Britische Leuteverarschung und Manipulation durch die Murdoch Presse:
The EU has archived all of the “Euromyths” printed in UK media – and it makes for some disturbing reading
Take a look at the list in full below.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/t...IiByA6-NndwOCoc

"Euromyth" Archive der EU:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/202...yths-a-z-index/

https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/202...a.eu/ECintheUK/

The papers won, let’s hope they were right
Today is the greatest day in the history of these Brexit papers. They won, we lost. Let's hope they were right.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/t...re-right/31/01/

Barnier warns UK it will not be ‘business as usual’ after Brexit trade deal
Both sides set out red lines for talks as Johnson says Britain will not have to accept EU rules

The EU made clear on Monday that Britain can not expect a zero-tariffs and zero-quotas deal trade with the bloc unless London agrees to terms that ensure there is fair competition with the European single market.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/eu...eKm-rs.facebook

https://bt24news.com/europe/good-riddanc...farewell-to-uk/

"The rather abrupt message to the UK from Croatia’s EU ambassador ahead of Brexit appears to have been lost in translation.
Irena Andrassy told British counterpart Sir Tim Barrow: “Thank you, goodbye, and good riddance”.

lol, it was a good riddance!

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4459

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Donald Trump ‘apoplectic’ in call with Boris Johnson over Huawei
Exclusive — livid president lambasted PM for allowing China group a role in UK 5G

Donald Trump vented “apoplectic” fury at Boris Johnson in a tense phone call over Britain’s decision to allow Huawei a role in its 5G mobile phone networks, according to officials in London and Washington.
The British prime minister spoke to the US president last week soon after he announced his decision to allow the Chinese manufacturer to participate in the UK’s next-generation cellular network. This was in spite of vocal opposition from senior figures in the Trump administration, which is opposed to Huawei on national security grounds.

Following the decision, Britain and the US tried to gloss over their differences with muted public statements. But one individual briefed on the contents of the call said Mr Trump was “apoplectic” with Mr Johnson for his Huawei decision and expressed his views in livid terms.
A second official confirmed that the Trump-Johnson call was “very difficult”. British officials with knowledge of the exchange said they were taken aback by the force of the president’s language towards Mr Johnson. ...

Following the Huawei decision, London and Washington have agreed to collaborate on reducing the use of Huawei equipment in Britain. William Barr, the US attorney-general, suggested on Thursday that the US should consider buying a controlling stake in Ericsson and Nokia to help build a stronger international competitor.
Mr Barr said America and its allies should be “actively considering” proposals for “American ownership of a controlling stake” in the European companies, “either directly or through a consortium of private American and allied companies”. ...

https://www.ft.com/content/a70f9506-48f1...e2-9ddbdc86190d

https://www.tz.de/muenchen/muenchen-engl...r-13525953.html

München: Mann will Englischen Garten umbenennen - weil ihn der Brexit nachhaltig verstimmt
„München ist eine offene, multikulturelle Stadt im Herzen Europas. Gäste jeder Erdteile sollen den europäischen Konsens und ein klares "JA" zu Europa spüren und erleben“, schreibt Daexl in seiner Begründung auf der Plattform openPetition.

I feel your pain. :-)

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #4464

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4463

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https://www.tz.de/muenchen/muenchen-englischer-garten-aus-namensaenderung-wahrzeichen-brexit-petition-zr-13525953.html

München: Mann will Englischen Garten umbenennen - weil ihn der Brexit nachhaltig verstimmt
„München ist eine offene, multikulturelle Stadt im Herzen Europas. Gäste jeder Erdteile sollen den europäischen Konsens und ein klares "JA" zu Europa spüren und erleben“, schreibt Daexl in seiner Begründung auf der Plattform openPetition.

I feel your pain. :-)

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Ich wäre auch für eine Umbenennung. Vorschläge: Syrischer Garten, Afghanischer Garten, Maghrebinsicher Garten, Osmanischer Garten - alles würde besser passen.
Gäste aller Erdteile sollten den deutschen Konsens und Deutschlands klares "JA" zu illegaler Zuwanderung erleben.

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UK trade deal faces potential veto from every EU country
Even the smallest member country will be able to wield influence over the accord.

If Spain wants to block a future trade deal with the U.K. over Gibraltar, if Belgium wants to stop a deal over fish or if France wants to veto over financial regulation, they have a legal way to do so.

The concession to EU countries is buried in the legal section of the draft negotiating directives that the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier presented on Monday. This document refers to Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as a legal basis for an EU-U.K. agreement because of the "scope of the envisaged partnership and the ambitious and long-term relationship that it seeks to establish."

Under EU law, holding the Brexit talks on the basis of Article 217 means that member countries will need to reach a unanimous decision in Council, giving each of the EU27 countries a chance to weigh in on the talks and forcing Barnier to keep every country's interests in mind during the upcoming negotiations. ....
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-trade...ery-eu-country/

UK foreign secretary: Britain wants trade deal with Japan within the year
Dominic Raab says talks with Tokyo to begin before spring.

...In response, Raab's Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi, asked for the U.K. to lift import restrictions on Japanese food and other products that were imposed by the EU in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-forei...ithin-the-year/

Und da kommt doch -reflexhaft- sogleich die Erinnerung an ein Liedchen von frueher mit dem Refrain: "Das macht doch nichts, das merkt doch keiner..."
Hm, warum wohl?
Mal sehen was draus wird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk32xp9Gnqs

https://www.tichyseinblick.de/gastbeitra...hen-demokratie/

Unabhängige Zentralbanken und Verfassungsgerichte schränken die demokratische Souveränität ein. Die EU-Ebene ist noch weiter von den Bürgern entfernt. Ein Gastbeitrag von Daniel Ben-Ami.

Sinn Féin stakes a claim to the New Ireland
Talk of IRA links wearies voters who want to leave the past behind

It’s a political expression every Irish person knows: Tiocfaidh ár lá. In this Twitter age, it has that essential three-word snappiness, up there with “Take back control”, “Drain the swamp” and “Get Brexit done”. But it comes from a darker era. The slogan was coined by IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, used by his clenched-fisted colleagues and spray-painted on gable walls in west Belfast. Last year, it was publicly invoked by Mary Lou McDonald, the new, urbane leader of Sinn Féin. This heavily loaded expression is the mantra of Irish Republicanism. It means: “Our day will come”.

It looks like that day might be here.
Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA during its terrorist campaign, leads in the polls ahead of Saturday’s Irish election. The country talks about little else. For traditionalists this has been unimaginable, but we live in a New Ireland now. The past is another country.

Sinn Féin is picking up votes in areas it wouldn’t have dared tiptoe a few years ago. The party was at 25 per cent in one survey last week, followed by 23 per cent for Fianna Fáil with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael party on 20 per cent. Polls overestimate the left: politically engaged younger people respond while the older, Mass-going voters keep their counsel. Even so, Sinn Féin’s breakthrough means it will be at the table in tortuous coalition talks. Horse-trading begins on Monday with no clear path to government. Proportional representation means that in Ireland there’s as much politics after the election as before it.

To outsiders, it seems strange that the fastest growing, best-educated country in the EU, a liberal democracy run by a competent, gay, mixed-race Taoiseach should lurch so suddenly to the ethno-nationalist left. It would be lazy to lump Ireland in with nativist trends elsewhere, so before we explain what is going on, let’s explain what is not.

Despite wanting a united Ireland and calling for a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification, a vote for Sinn Féin in the Republic is not, as in Catalonia, an endorsement of narrow-gauge nationalism. Sinn Féin supports the Good Friday Agreement. Despite being a nationalist party, this surge in support is not, like the Brexit vote, a vote against the EU. Sinn Féin is committed to the EU as are more than 85 per cent of Irish people. Despite sounding tribal, this vote is not, like Matteo Salvini’s constituency in Italy, a vote against immigration. One in six Irish residents are foreign-born. Sinn Féin embraces multiculturalism.

In the US, nativism is fuelled in part by economic nostalgia. Ireland doesn’t do economic nostalgia. We’ve never had it so good. National income has never been higher, unemployment never lower. Economically, our past was a catastrophe. “Make America Great Again” might fly in the States; “Make Ireland Great Again” doesn’t cut it here.

The Sinn Féin surge is not an old-fashioned Catholic vote against liberalism, as in Poland. It supported both gay marriage and abortion rights. In contrast to the UK, where Brexit was an elderly phenomenon, Sinn Féin is the biggest party for under-30s. The older you are, the less likely you are to vote Sinn Féin.

Sinn Féin offers something else: change, and a protest vote against the establishment for voters who feel they don’t have a stake. The party are outsiders; the established duopoly are the insiders, with one propping up a government led by the other.

Will these voters stay with Sinn Féin? My sense is they will not. Sinn Féin was a working-class party; today, it is picking up support in the critical 30-45 age group, the commuter classes of Leinster and Munster. The big issues there are housing, transport and childcare.
Sinn Féin promises rent freezes and an expansion of public housing. It will tax corporations, particularly multinational companies. It offers a typical, left-of-centre shopping list, financed by borrowing and higher taxes on the rich.

And what about the IRA? In the past days, the connection between the IRA and Sinn Féin in the North has dominated headlines, but most voters in the Republic are weary of the past. One in four are prepared to give Sinn Féin a chance. It would be completely wrong to equate Sinn Féin’s votes with support for the IRA. There was never more than fractional support for the armed struggle in the Republic. Relations with the UK were, until Brexit, as close as they’ve ever been. But Brexit altered the mood. Irish people disliked the way Brexiters disregarded Irish concerns. English nationalism has consequences far beyond Irish support for Scotland in this weekend’s Six Nations rugby match. At the margin, this may help Sinn Féin, but it’s not behind the surge.

Longer term, demography is destiny. The main parties are dying, literally. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, who have dominated politics for 100 years, can claim only around 25 per cent support among the under-40s. Politically, New Ireland is up for grabs and Sinn Féin’s hat is in the ring.
https://www.ft.com/content/a87f5afe-48fe...e2-9ddbdc86190d

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4472

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Sinn Féin stakes a claim to the New Ireland
Talk of IRA links wearies voters who want to leave the past behind

It’s a political expression every Irish person knows: Tiocfaidh ár lá. In this Twitter age, it has that essential three-word snappiness, up there with “Take back control”, “Drain the swamp” and “Get Brexit done”. But it comes from a darker era. The slogan was coined by IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, used by his clenched-fisted colleagues and spray-painted on gable walls in west Belfast. Last year, it was publicly invoked by Mary Lou McDonald, the new, urbane leader of Sinn Féin. This heavily loaded expression is the mantra of Irish Republicanism. It means: “Our day will come”.

It looks like that day might be here.
Sinn Féin, the political wing of the IRA during its terrorist campaign, leads in the polls ahead of Saturday’s Irish election. The country talks about little else. For traditionalists this has been unimaginable, but we live in a New Ireland now. The past is another country.

Sinn Féin is picking up votes in areas it wouldn’t have dared tiptoe a few years ago. The party was at 25 per cent in one survey last week, followed by 23 per cent for Fianna Fáil with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael party on 20 per cent. Polls overestimate the left: politically engaged younger people respond while the older, Mass-going voters keep their counsel. Even so, Sinn Féin’s breakthrough means it will be at the table in tortuous coalition talks. Horse-trading begins on Monday with no clear path to government. Proportional representation means that in Ireland there’s as much politics after the election as before it.

To outsiders, it seems strange that the fastest growing, best-educated country in the EU, a liberal democracy run by a competent, gay, mixed-race Taoiseach should lurch so suddenly to the ethno-nationalist left. It would be lazy to lump Ireland in with nativist trends elsewhere, so before we explain what is going on, let’s explain what is not.

Despite wanting a united Ireland and calling for a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification, a vote for Sinn Féin in the Republic is not, as in Catalonia, an endorsement of narrow-gauge nationalism. Sinn Féin supports the Good Friday Agreement. Despite being a nationalist party, this surge in support is not, like the Brexit vote, a vote against the EU. Sinn Féin is committed to the EU as are more than 85 per cent of Irish people. Despite sounding tribal, this vote is not, like Matteo Salvini’s constituency in Italy, a vote against immigration. One in six Irish residents are foreign-born. Sinn Féin embraces multiculturalism.

In the US, nativism is fuelled in part by economic nostalgia. Ireland doesn’t do economic nostalgia. We’ve never had it so good. National income has never been higher, unemployment never lower. Economically, our past was a catastrophe. “Make America Great Again” might fly in the States; “Make Ireland Great Again” doesn’t cut it here.

The Sinn Féin surge is not an old-fashioned Catholic vote against liberalism, as in Poland. It supported both gay marriage and abortion rights. In contrast to the UK, where Brexit was an elderly phenomenon, Sinn Féin is the biggest party for under-30s. The older you are, the less likely you are to vote Sinn Féin.

Sinn Féin offers something else: change, and a protest vote against the establishment for voters who feel they don’t have a stake. The party are outsiders; the established duopoly are the insiders, with one propping up a government led by the other.

Will these voters stay with Sinn Féin? My sense is they will not. Sinn Féin was a working-class party; today, it is picking up support in the critical 30-45 age group, the commuter classes of Leinster and Munster. The big issues there are housing, transport and childcare.
Sinn Féin promises rent freezes and an expansion of public housing. It will tax corporations, particularly multinational companies. It offers a typical, left-of-centre shopping list, financed by borrowing and higher taxes on the rich.

And what about the IRA? In the past days, the connection between the IRA and Sinn Féin in the North has dominated headlines, but most voters in the Republic are weary of the past. One in four are prepared to give Sinn Féin a chance. It would be completely wrong to equate Sinn Féin’s votes with support for the IRA. There was never more than fractional support for the armed struggle in the Republic. Relations with the UK were, until Brexit, as close as they’ve ever been. But Brexit altered the mood. Irish people disliked the way Brexiters disregarded Irish concerns. English nationalism has consequences far beyond Irish support for Scotland in this weekend’s Six Nations rugby match. At the margin, this may help Sinn Féin, but it’s not behind the surge.

Longer term, demography is destiny. The main parties are dying, literally. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, who have dominated politics for 100 years, can claim only around 25 per cent support among the under-40s. Politically, New Ireland is up for grabs and Sinn Féin’s hat is in the ring.
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The EU has never been more popular among its remaining 27 countries
The British media is obsessed with American politics, but we could learn more from our continental neighbours, says ANDREW ADONIS.

I stayed up to watch the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Awesome theatre. Nancy Pelosi ripping up Donald Trump's speech, while sitting right behind him, is one of the best moments of this presidency.
It was set to be followed by the even more theatrical acquittal of Trump by the Republican majority in the senate in his impeachment 'trial', although a judicial process less concerned with establishing facts and guilt it would be impossible to imagine.
This all reflects a degree of polarisation in American politics unprecedented in modern times. There is now an 82 percentage point gap in approval ratings for Trump between Democrats and Republicans. Some 89% of Republicans approve but only 7% of Democrats.
All this is highly alarming for the future of the 'United' States. The mistake, however, is to think that it reflects a universal democratic trend towards disintegration. Here in Europe the position is very different; and since this is our continent, maybe we should be paying more attention to the state of the union on our doorstep.

In Britain we are fixated by US politics but virtually ignore Europe. Yet voting irregularities in this week's Iowa caucuses are far less important to us than the arch populist Matteo Salvini's decisive defeat in Emilia-Romagna last week or the surge for Sinn Fein in the Irish election campaign.

The media have a lot to answer for. They are all, including the BBC, obsessed by the US but barely report Europe. It is far more exciting for journalists to swan around Washington than Warsaw and it doesn't involve any of those horrible foreign languages.
For the right-wing media, there is an overt ideological and commercial agenda. Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan fancy themselves as transatlantic impresarios, and do very nicely out of it. For them and their paymasters, the more Trump the better. It sells. And a Trumpite Britain is their dream. The rest of us should watch out. ...

The union in real jeopardy is the one closest to home: the United Kingdom. Brexit, and the English nationalist version of Boris Johnson who sold it, are an Exocet to the future of the UK. The only question in Scotland is when 'Indyref2' is going to be held and whether independence can be resisted this time. Particularly with the EU so welcoming.

The election of most significance to us is the upcoming Irish poll, coming soon after power-sharing was restored to a Northern Ireland which is in effect staying in the EU, under last year's Varadkar-Johnson deal.
What would a Sinn Féin-led Irish government mean? I have no idea. The BBC has done nothing whatever to inform us. I only discovered the revolution taking place in Dublin by reading the Irish Times.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-sto...ZAgDRWgpYLJ_UH8

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4473

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4472

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Sinn Féin stakes a claim to the New Ireland
Talk of IRA links wearies voters who want to leave the past behind

It’s a political expression every Irish person knows: Tiocfaidh ár lá. In this Twitter age, it has that essential three-word snappiness, up there with “Take back control”, “Drain the swamp” and “Get Brexit done”. But it comes from a darker era. The slogan was coined by IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, used by his clenched-fisted colleagues and spray-painted on gable walls in west Belfast. Last year, it was publicly invoked by Mary Lou McDonald, the new, urbane leader of Sinn Féin. This heavily loaded expression is the mantra of Irish Republicanism. It means: “Our day will come”.

It looks like that day might be here.
https://www.ft.com/content/a87f5afe-48fe...e2-9ddbdc86190d

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Toll, sie sind Multikulti, sie sind pro-EU, vor allem sie sind anti-englisch und anti-Brexiteers. Wen schert es, dass diese Verbrecher erst vor gar nicht so langer Zeit dem Terror abgeschworen haben.

Aber klar, Tories wie Boris Johnson oder Jacob Rees-Mogg sind natürlich eine viel größere Bedrohung.

Nahal hat recht: Du bist wirklich ein Kretinchen.

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