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Originally Posted by SimonScans
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i know it's not very popular to like the EU, at least not on GFY
but i do.
not only for personal reasons but also the positive effects for all of us are easily forgotten. like that Europe never before had 66 years in a row without war, never was that strong economically (yes, still) and that without the EU many countries would still be the shitholes they were before - like Greece, Portugal, Spain. the problem with those countries nowadays are coward governments that cannot enforce basic laws and big parts of the population that make it a sport to avoid paying taxes and therefore leave their countries without money.
yes, many things are wrong, but it's still a lot better than without the EU. i just need to look out of the window to see it. i moved to another country like i was moving to another town with no hassle at all and without the money of the EU, eastern Europe would not look like it looks now. in return the EU got millions of new consumers and workers (how would England look like without polish nurses ;) )
i learned to ignore the big headlines nowadays since non of that ever affected me personally