I thought the whole problem was that the EU commission does what it wants and the individual member states - like the UK was - don't have any say in it. The whole unelected bureaucrats thing.
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I thought the whole problem was that the EU commission does what it wants and the individual member states - like the UK was - don't have any say in it. The whole unelected bureaucrats thing.
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I thought the whole problem was that the EU commission does what it wants and the individual member states - like the UK was - don't have any say in it. The whole unelected bureaucrats thing.
I am not sure why you thought it so simplistic, it's much more complex than that. If the EU hierarchy feel they can bully the lesser mugs, they will and do, but when people's health or welfare comes to push and shove some of the less conformist members will show their mettle and tell them to "do one". Orban is in that category. How many extra people do Germany, in their liberal wisdom, have to now feed and heat?
With Putin having ZZ troops cleaning out civilians mass scale he's graduated to full Hitler title now.
This war will not end with a peace treaty.
There was talk about those 1000 strong Wagner mercenenaries sent to terrorise the Ukranians. They are known butchers so I wouldn't be surprised if they were a big part of this genocide.
This wagner guy whoever he is needs to be on the list for war crimes.
This wagner guy whoever he is needs to be on the list for war crimes.
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With Putin having ZZ troops cleaning out civilians mass scale he's graduated to full Hitler title now.
This war will not end with a peace treaty.
There's zero way the Ukrainian population would accept a peace treaty unless Russia is completely out of Ukraine including Donbass & Crimea at a guess after how enraged they will be with Russia over these mass murders
He should be on it already after some of the things they did in Syria.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: New Sanctions Against Russia Are Required.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: New Sanctions Must Not Harm EU Members.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: Gas Sanctions Would Harm the EU More Than Russia.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: We Must Sever All Ties With Russia As Soon As Possible.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: The EU Must Cut All Economic Ties With Russia As Soon As Possible but Must Treat Gas, Oil, and Coal Separately.
*German Finance Minister Lindner Declines to Speculate Whether the EU Will Impose an Embargo on Russian Energy Imports.
*EU Economic Commissioner Gentiloni: All Possible Sanctions Against Russia Are Still on the Table, Now More Than Ever.
*Polish State Assets Minister Sasin: Poland Wants to Run Coal Fired Power Plants Well Beyond 2049 — PAP — Reuters
*Ukraine’s Finance Ministry: It Is Looking Into an International Bond Issuance Scheme to Fund the Country’s Defence Efforts. — RTRS
'Ukraine's finance ministry confirmed on Monday it was looking at options to tap international capital markets in a push to raise fresh financing to fund its defence efforts.'
*Ukraine President Zelenskiy: It Is Very Hard to Negotiate With Russia When We See What They Have Done in Ukraine — RTRS
'Zelenskiy spoke on national television from the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, where tied bodies shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions have been found in territory retaken from Russian troops.'
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...-ukraine-make-negotiations-harder-2022-04-04/
*German Finance Minister Lindner: New Sanctions Must Not Harm EU Members.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: Gas Sanctions Would Harm the EU More Than Russia.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: We Must Sever All Ties With Russia As Soon As Possible.
*German Finance Minister Lindner: The EU Must Cut All Economic Ties With Russia As Soon As Possible but Must Treat Gas, Oil, and Coal Separately.
*German Finance Minister Lindner Declines to Speculate Whether the EU Will Impose an Embargo on Russian Energy Imports.
*EU Economic Commissioner Gentiloni: All Possible Sanctions Against Russia Are Still on the Table, Now More Than Ever.
*Polish State Assets Minister Sasin: Poland Wants to Run Coal Fired Power Plants Well Beyond 2049 — PAP — Reuters
*Ukraine’s Finance Ministry: It Is Looking Into an International Bond Issuance Scheme to Fund the Country’s Defence Efforts. — RTRS
'Ukraine's finance ministry confirmed on Monday it was looking at options to tap international capital markets in a push to raise fresh financing to fund its defence efforts.'
*Ukraine President Zelenskiy: It Is Very Hard to Negotiate With Russia When We See What They Have Done in Ukraine — RTRS
'Zelenskiy spoke on national television from the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, where tied bodies shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions have been found in territory retaken from Russian troops.'
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...-ukraine-make-negotiations-harder-2022-04-04/
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Are they still in Georgia, where?
Could also go the other way of course, citizens instead feeling that any treaty (within limits) is fine so long as the bloodshed stops. I doubt it, but I imagine it's how some might feel. It's very easy for us to speculate when we've still got homes to go back to.
— Bloomberg (CET Time)
*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: 100 Turkish Citizens Are Still Waiting to Evacuate From Mariupol
*Mariupol Mayor Says Russian Attacks Continue
*Lithuania Recalls Ambassador to Russia
*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: Evacuation Buses Are Not Being Allowed Into Mariupol
*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: 100 Turkish Citizens Are Still Waiting to Evacuate From Mariupol
I'm not sure the Ukranians will be in a very forgiving mood tbh after the recent atrocities.
No, the US only has a small continuous presence in Georgia. But sending them in the first place sent Putin running.
All member states should be aiming to at the minimum start reducing Russian gas imports. Find alternatives etc. If they can, remove them entirely. There is no point in forcing countries that have a reliance on it to cut it off though. Why hobble your own economy when the aim is to punish the Russian?
Dont forget all the support Putin is getting from certain right wing political parties in the UK!
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Oh no doubt there's people who will feel this way, but I would imagine the majority will not accept peace on Russia's terms, pretty sure Zelensky realises this too or else Ukraine would have already capitulated to the demands
— Bloomberg (CET Time)
*Merkel Defends Her Legacy on Ukraine
*Ukraine Holding Hundreds of Russian POWs
well they should obviously build this prisoner camp in the middle of whichever city Russia is currently attacking in the east
And still some people struggle (or pretend to do so) with the fact that the EU is not an empire/dictatorship and is actually made up of sovereign countries.
They should also get the locals to handle the catering...
*Germany’s Foreign Minister Baerbock: The EU Will Once Again Significantly Tighten Sanctions Against Russia.
*ECB’s Vasle: Net Bond-Buying Could End As Soon As July.
*ECB's Vasle: Growth Is Quite Strong, There Is No Need to Delay Normalization.
*ECB’s Vasle: The ECB 2022 Baseline Inflation Scenario Is Quite Realistic.
*ECB’s Vasle: We Need to Be Very Careful to Act Before Price Risks Worsen.
*ECB’s Vasle: Negative Rates Could End by the Turn of the Year.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: We Are Not yet Seeing Persistently Higher Inflation.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Some Labour Market Problems May Be Structural Rather Than Cyclical.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Wages Are Rising Due to Labor Market Tightness.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Lower Participation Has Been Compounded by Fewer Migration, Either As a Result of the Pandemic or As a Result of Brexit.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The United Kingdom Is Not Set to Repeat the 1970’s.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: There Is Little Indication of Sectoral Mismatches in the Labour Market, Which Has Remained Highly Flexible.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: What We’ve Seen in the Labour Market Coming Out of Covid Has Been Very Much a Story of Poor Labour Supply and Robust Labour Demand.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Monetary Policy Can’t Offset Many Pressures.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Reduction in Demand From Household Consumption and Corporate Investment Will Be Higher Than We Anticipated in February.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Impact of Increasing Energy Prices Will Not Be Felt Uniformly, and These Variables Could Compound the Impact on Aggregate Demand.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Invasion of Ukraine Will Most Likely Increase and Extend the Rise in Inflation While Tightening the Squeeze on Household Incomes.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Ukraine War Raises the Chance of Inflation Undershoot.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The United Kingdom Should Be More Cautious When It Comes To Commodities.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Further Monetary Tightening May Be Necessary.
*BoE on Monetary and Financial Stability and the Invasion of Ukraine - Full Comments
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/m...nvasion-of-ukraine-speech-by-jon-cunliffe.pdf
*ECB's Vasle: Growth Is Quite Strong, There Is No Need to Delay Normalization.
*ECB’s Vasle: The ECB 2022 Baseline Inflation Scenario Is Quite Realistic.
*ECB’s Vasle: We Need to Be Very Careful to Act Before Price Risks Worsen.
*ECB’s Vasle: Negative Rates Could End by the Turn of the Year.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: We Are Not yet Seeing Persistently Higher Inflation.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Some Labour Market Problems May Be Structural Rather Than Cyclical.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Wages Are Rising Due to Labor Market Tightness.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Lower Participation Has Been Compounded by Fewer Migration, Either As a Result of the Pandemic or As a Result of Brexit.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The United Kingdom Is Not Set to Repeat the 1970’s.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: There Is Little Indication of Sectoral Mismatches in the Labour Market, Which Has Remained Highly Flexible.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: What We’ve Seen in the Labour Market Coming Out of Covid Has Been Very Much a Story of Poor Labour Supply and Robust Labour Demand.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Monetary Policy Can’t Offset Many Pressures.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Reduction in Demand From Household Consumption and Corporate Investment Will Be Higher Than We Anticipated in February.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Impact of Increasing Energy Prices Will Not Be Felt Uniformly, and These Variables Could Compound the Impact on Aggregate Demand.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Invasion of Ukraine Will Most Likely Increase and Extend the Rise in Inflation While Tightening the Squeeze on Household Incomes.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The Ukraine War Raises the Chance of Inflation Undershoot.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: The United Kingdom Should Be More Cautious When It Comes To Commodities.
*BoE’s Cunliffe: Further Monetary Tightening May Be Necessary.
*BoE on Monetary and Financial Stability and the Invasion of Ukraine - Full Comments
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/m...nvasion-of-ukraine-speech-by-jon-cunliffe.pdf
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