And east Germans are Ausländer as well. They never integrated into the BRD. They never accepted our political system. They belittle and play down Russia and its attacks on us. They accept disinformation from Russia but say “Lügenpresse” to the German media. Putin like that. Russia had four decades to brainwash the east Germans and they are still brainwashed.

I do not think that there will be a trade pact between UK and EU if the UK will not accept the requirements of the EU. The EU is stronger and has all cards compared to the UK. The anti EU country Switzerland had to accept the EU requirements for Schengen. Switzerland did not comply to some the requirements and the EU did not back up. The result is, e.g., that you cannot buy swiss stocks in European stock exchanges.

I translated it via DeepL

The focus here is on the enforcement of EU internal market law in Switzerland. Switzerland, in turn, is blocking or delaying agreed measures because it fears distortions of competition. Negotiations between the European Union and Switzerland on a corresponding framework agreement began back in 2014. In the meantime, the EU had increased the pressure on Switzerland by wanting to devalue the Swiss stock exchange.

As Switzerland did not react, Switzerland lost its stock market equivalence in June 2019. In concrete terms, this means that Switzerland has been valued as a stock market country like Malaysia, for example, for over five years. After attempts to conclude a framework agreement between the EU and Switzerland also failed in 2021, negotiations were resumed in spring 2024 - so far without success.

The difference is that Göring, Goebbels and Hitler cared about Germany. Krasnov only cares about Russia.

50% davon sind halt bots.

As a German I can say that this picture makes no sense. Merkel was one of the most left-wing Chancellor of all time. Merkel’s coalition has paused compulsory military service and cut the Bundeswehr to the bone. During her time, the Bundeswehr received only 37 billion a year in some cases, although the German economic institutes have calculated that the Bundeswehr needs around 2% of GDP to maintain the status quo. 37 billion is less than 1%.

At no point is the EU “given” power, nor is it taken. However, in the interests of the union in general, many of these treaties have non-negotiable requirements.

If you watch the history of the EU and its predecessor and you will see that the EU became more powerful. It started with a coal and steel union and now it is a defense, free trade, law, financial, and securing democracy partnership. Of course this was implemented because the members wanted it, but I think this will end in a United States of the EU. I do not have a problem with it, but many people (especially the people that are political disenchantment) would not like it.

It is highly unlikely that membership in the EU would automatically include membership in a defence union.

The European Parliament discusses this topic because of Manfred Weber the chairman of the biggest group EPP. Weber showed its interest in this topic in the German political talkshow of Martin Lanz. The biggest advocate of a European army is Macron the French president. He does have a other view of a European army as Weber, but after trying to create a more European army structure for many years he signaled to be willing to talk about it.

Canada would have seats in the European Parliament, respresentation in the the European Commission, and would therefore have some influence on things like interest rate policy.

That is true but the European liberals Renew Europe are not the biggest group in the Parliament. Macrons party lost so many voters to Le Pen (right extremist). The German SPD and Greens lost many voters to the conservative parties. Sweden and Austria shifted to the right as well. The parliament shifted to the right and I think it would not be changed by the Canadians EU election results. The new Icelandic government has now announced that it will hold a referendum on the issue of EU membership by 2027. The polls in Norway becoming more and more positive about joining the EU. This could shift the EP to the left and the centre.

They’ve bullied our government, crippled our industries, and even killed national projects like the Avro Arrow, and yet we still think of ourselves as “independent”.

I do not have enough knowledge about the Canadian history of politics.

In the EU, everything is negotiable except the free trade and free movement

That is not right. Every country must transpose all EU directives into national law. If they fail to do so, they have to pay fines.

Example

The delayed implementation of the EU directive on the protection of whistleblowers into national law is costing Germany dearly. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered Germany to pay a fine of 34 million euros to the EU for breaching its obligations. The Luxembourg judges justified the move with the importance of the high level of protection required by the directive for whistleblowers who report breaches of EU law.

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With its ruling in case C-149/23, the ECJ is complying with a complaint filed by the EU Commission in February 2023. The member states were actually obliged to take the necessary measures to legally comply with the provisions of the directive by the end of 2021. The German government was unable to notify the Commission of implementation because the black-red coalition initially failed to agree on a common line. At the time, the SPD wanted the law to also apply to infringements of German law. This was not just in areas such as financial services and tenders, product and food safety, data protection, the environment and health, which are regulated throughout the EU. CDU and CSU were against it.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Late-whistleblower-protection-Germany-must-pay-a-fine-of-34-million-euros-10307299.html

BMW, VW and Mercedes. The German Bundesbahn was perfect then the CDU, CSU and FDP killed it due to lobbyism. Now, the politicians suck the cocks of the CEOs of the mentioned companies. SPD and Grüne always say that the Deutsche Bahn needs more money, but they had the chance between 98 and 05. Did they change something? No there was not enough money according to them.

Bei mir funktioniert der, den ich hingeschrieben habe.

Das wäre nicht so schlimm, wenn das meiste vom Gewinn auch in F&E gesteckt wird, aber nein, es geht in die Taschen der Aktionäre.

Hoffentlich wird geprüft, ob das Stuttgarter Landgericht für diese dumme Entscheidung fürstlich entlohnt wurde.

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