Its not often I am into politics.. but this is insane we in EU pay some 200 milions EURO!! - every year as this happens. IDIOTS!
Vote you to!
http://www.oneseat.eu/
The European Parliament should be located in Brussels
It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. As a citizen of the European Union, I want the European Parliament to be located only in Brussels.
Participatory democracy
Article 47 on participatory democracy in the proposed constitution for the European Union, which the European Commission supports, wants the citizens in the European Union to become more active and to participate in the debate on European issues. Therefore, we are starting a citizens' initiative to collect a million signatures to put an end to this waste of taxpayers' money.
Join 862405 other european citizens in signing the petition! (2006-08-15)
Let that money go to poor children and amnesty, red cross or similar
/Tina - EXAKT agitated!
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PetGirl Bergman
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08-15-2006 00:54
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 01:23
or even better, lets just disband the entirely useless european parliament altogether and they can save a bunch more cash!
-- Kris. Reluctant Brit and even more reluctant 'European'. |
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PetGirl Bergman
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08-15-2006 01:30
or even better, lets just disband the entirely useless european parliament altogether and they can save a bunch more cash! -- Kris. Reluctant Brit and even more reluctant 'European'.  ) I dident wote for.. I am sadly sure in the future there will be a war when countries want to split from it.. /Tina - I am prob dead at that time... _____________________
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Billybob Goodliffe
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08-15-2006 04:05
/me scratches head
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 04:15
/me scratches head There's a European Parliament? Yes. They legislate on all the really important issues that affect the EU. Such as barring Denmark from exporting feta cheese, specifying that imported bananas had to be at least 5.5 inches long and 1.1 inches wide, and could not be abnormally bent, and deciding that much of our chocolate produce could not, in fact, be labelled or described as chocolate. _____________________
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Reitsuki Kojima
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08-15-2006 04:20
/me scratches head There's a European Parliament? Yeah. The logic is something like this: The US is a big country. So, Europe bands together to make a sort of counter-US, called the EU. And from what the news has indicated, it's been basicly nothing but further squabbling between the nations every since it started. Oh, and Kris, don't forget telling Poland what they can and can't do with their justice system.  _____________________
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Ewan Took
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08-15-2006 04:21
Ha found out! Kris reads 'The Sun'!
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PetGirl Bergman
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08-15-2006 04:23
Dont forget the stipulated size of our strawberrys and that Swedish Chokolate are not OK as it has a bit to little cacao in it compared with the EU rules. (But we love it as it are).
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CJ Carnot
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08-15-2006 04:31
/me scratches head There's a European Parliament? Yep & we're just so scared to be subsumed into Europe while apparently unconcerned about the wholesale Americanisation of our lifestyle & culture. Really. Give me German cars, French films, British pubs, Italian food and the European world view over the alternative. |
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 04:31
Ha found out! Kris reads 'The Sun'! That's about the most offensive thing I've ever read about me. And I'm really not easily offended.  Actually, the information I quoted comes from 'International Politics on the World Stage, Brief' by John T. Rourke and Mark A. Boyer of the University of Connecticut. Not the fucking Sun. Biatch. _____________________
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Ewan Took
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08-15-2006 04:32
Yeah. The logic is something like this: The US is a big country. So, Europe bands together to make a sort of counter-US, called the EU. And from what the news has indicated, it's been basicly nothing but further squabbling between the nations every since it started. Oh, and Kris, don't forget telling Poland what they can and can't do with their justice system. After World War II, Europe was in bits therefore it seemed that something had to be done to prevent it happening again. It was thought that an economic union of the countries involved ('cept Britain, we're an Island you know) would mean common interests and goals therefore it would make another war less likely. It was even encouraged by America. As for the new members, it is though that they are less likely to go extreme if they are 'in the club'. I'd be happy with Brussels but you have to get it past those French. _____________________
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Ewan Took
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08-15-2006 04:43
That's about the most offensive thing I've ever read about me. And I'm really not easily offended. Actually, the information I quoted comes from 'International Politics on the World Stage, Brief' by John T. Rourke and Mark A. Boyer of the University of Connecticut. Not the fucking Sun. Biatch. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/08/eu.facts.myths/index.html  _____________________
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Billybob Goodliffe
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08-15-2006 04:44
Yep & we're just so scared to be subsumed into Europe while apparently unconcerned about the wholesale Americanisation of our lifestyle & culture. Really. Give me German cars, French films, British pubs, Italian food and the European world view over the alternative. hmm German cars, you mean these?  British Pubs, in the words of Peter Griffin "AHH!!! A gay bar!" Italian food, nothing snide to say about it _____________________
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Pham Neutra
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08-15-2006 04:44
If a parliament is discredited to you if find some stupid laws in the nations law books, Kris, I bet you will have to discredit most parliaments in the world. Lets go through the UK laws together, shall we? Or the German ones while we are at it.
 I am not sure at all, if the number of silly laws - many of them not initiated by the parliament - in the EU is significantly larger than in most other "modern nations". Those funny quotes are usually given by oponents of the EU-idea at large and quoted in big letters by the national yellow press papers. They say nothing about if this institution makes sense or not. |
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CJ Carnot
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08-15-2006 04:47
hmm German cars, you mean these? British Pubs, in the words of Peter Griffin "AHH!!! A gay bar!" Did I forget to metion our sense of humour too ? |
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PetGirl Bergman
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08-15-2006 04:59
Dont mention the war - Cleese.
- My father have it on tape and often when he get some toxicated he show that.. )Its funny... *smiles* But to pay this gigantic sum of money - because some demand/want it and cant give it to others is silly very silly... This will not end well - a day.. /Tina _____________________
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 05:07
If a parliament is discredited to you if find some stupid laws in the nations law books, Kris, I bet you will have to discredit most parliaments in the world. Lets go through the UK laws together, shall we? Or the German ones while we are at it. I agree. And I'm no fan of UKs Parliament either! I wanna go found a new country somewhere. Anyone know of any undiscovered islands I can claim? Oh wait...  _____________________
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Inigo Chamerberlin
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08-15-2006 05:45
Its not often I am into politics.. but this is insane we in EU pay some 200 milions EURO!! - every year as this happens. IDIOTS! Vote you to! http://www.oneseat.eu/ The European Parliament should be located in Brussels It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. As a citizen of the European Union, I want the European Parliament to be located only in Brussels. Participatory democracy Article 47 on participatory democracy in the proposed constitution for the European Union, which the European Commission supports, wants the citizens in the European Union to become more active and to participate in the debate on European issues. Therefore, we are starting a citizens' initiative to collect a million signatures to put an end to this waste of taxpayers' money. Join 862405 other european citizens in signing the petition! (2006-08-15) Let that money go to poor children and amnesty, red cross or similar /Tina - EXAKT agitated! The European Parliament should be located on another PLANET, preferbaly an uninhabitable one, in a distant galaxy! _____________________
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 05:47
The European Parliament should be located on another PLANET, preferbaly an uninhabitable one, in a distant galaxy! No wait... better idea. Let's all go to another planet ourselves and leave them here. This planet is fucked anyway. _____________________
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Inigo Chamerberlin
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08-15-2006 05:54
After World War II, Europe was in bits therefore it seemed that something had to be done to prevent it happening again. It was thought that an economic union of the countries involved ('cept Britain, we're an Island you know) would mean common interests and goals therefore it would make another war less likely. It was even encouraged by America. As for the new members, it is though that they are less likely to go extreme if they are 'in the club'. I'd be happy with Brussels but you have to get it past those French. Yes, the bloody politicians (mainly British and French), who, if they'd had a pair of balls between the lot of them, could probably have averted WW2, were too cowardly and foolish to grasp the nettle and DO something, with the resulting loss of life. THEN they decided that what we really, really needed was a Federal United States of Europe. Subsequently they started with a supposedly trade oriented organisation which, by stealth, they have mutated into it's present form. Thanks guys. _____________________
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Inigo Chamerberlin
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08-15-2006 05:55
No wait... better idea. Let's all go to another planet ourselves and leave them here. This planet is fucked anyway. OK - but can we have a habitable one Kris?  _____________________
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Kris Ritter
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08-15-2006 05:56
OK - but can we have a habitable one Kris? Depends who else you intend to bring. _____________________
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Inigo Chamerberlin
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08-15-2006 05:58
Depends who else you intend to bring. Sometimes your wisdom leaves me speechless _____________________
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Pham Neutra
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08-15-2006 06:01
As someone who has lived through the last 30 years of the European integration process and has seen, year by year what great (positive) changes this has brought to us Europeans, not only to the economy, I often wonder what kind of mindset you need not to appreciate this process.
I guess it could be called "splendid isolation". |
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Ewan Took
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08-15-2006 07:58
As someone who has lived through the last 30 years of the European integration process and has seen, year by year what great (positive) changes this has brought to us Europeans, not only to the economy, I often wonder what kind of mindset you need not to appreciate this process. I guess it could be called "splendid isolation". Usually this kind...  _____________________
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