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Are you happy with the way the EU has acted during this crisis?
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""A group of Italian politicians have warned that the European Union will “cease to exist” if countries in the bloc refuse to increase funding to the nations hardest hit by the Chinese coronavirus.
On Tuesday, mayors and other politicians from Italy took out a full-page advertisement in a German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, criticising the Netherlands and Germany for refusing to back so-called “coronabonds” to underwrite the debt accumulated by Italy and other coronavirus epicentre countries in the European Union.
“Dear German friends, with the coronavirus the shared history of the Western world has once again taken centre stage,” the Italian politicians wrote. “Today the EU does not have the means to respond to the crisis in a united front. If it does not prove that it exists, it will cease to exist,” they warned. The politicians, led by Italian MEP Carlo Calenda, drew a comparison to the aftermath of the Second World War when Italy along with other European powers agreed to partially dissolve debt accrued by Germany, which they claim the country could “never have paid” back.""
Oh dear the Italians don't seem "happy". Spain has not yet commented and I imagine the Irish will soon be doing the dance of agitation.
On Tuesday, mayors and other politicians from Italy took out a full-page advertisement in a German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, criticising the Netherlands and Germany for refusing to back so-called “coronabonds” to underwrite the debt accumulated by Italy and other coronavirus epicentre countries in the European Union.
“Dear German friends, with the coronavirus the shared history of the Western world has once again taken centre stage,” the Italian politicians wrote. “Today the EU does not have the means to respond to the crisis in a united front. If it does not prove that it exists, it will cease to exist,” they warned. The politicians, led by Italian MEP Carlo Calenda, drew a comparison to the aftermath of the Second World War when Italy along with other European powers agreed to partially dissolve debt accrued by Germany, which they claim the country could “never have paid” back.""
Oh dear the Italians don't seem "happy". Spain has not yet commented and I imagine the Irish will soon be doing the dance of agitation.
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It appears when in a bit of a pickle the EU are not so bloody unified.
Wriggling like ferrets in a sack all playing the blame game about who is not doing what. Immoral Handling it seems.
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Wriggling like ferrets in a sack all playing the blame game about who is not doing what. Immoral Handling it seems.
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Ahh you will be talking about experts like this one Deskdiary.
""Professor Neil Ferguson, director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College, London, is the scientist behind the doomsday report that terrified Prime Minister Boris Johnson into imposing sudden and radical lockdown measures across the United Kingdom.
The report apocalyptically predicted that coronavirus could kill as many as 500,000 people in Britain if nothing was done to stop the spread of the disease.
Ferguson has since substantially revised down his death toll, saying it could be “substantially less than 20,000”. Colleagues at Imperial, however, have at times predicted a death toll even smaller than that — as few as 5,700 fatalities if the lockdown continues.
Rival scientists are increasingly critical of Ferguson’s original doomsday predictions, noting that his previous modelled forecasts have been found severely wanting.
Among his critics is Professor Michael Thrusfield of Edinburgh University, co-author of two reports highly critical of Ferguson’s mathematical modelling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis.
Ferguson’s predictive modelling — which helped persuade Tony Blair’s government to carry out a pre-emptive cull which led to the deaths of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs and which cost the UK economy an estimated £10 billion — was subsequently described as “not fit for purpose.""
""Professor Neil Ferguson, director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College, London, is the scientist behind the doomsday report that terrified Prime Minister Boris Johnson into imposing sudden and radical lockdown measures across the United Kingdom.
The report apocalyptically predicted that coronavirus could kill as many as 500,000 people in Britain if nothing was done to stop the spread of the disease.
Ferguson has since substantially revised down his death toll, saying it could be “substantially less than 20,000”. Colleagues at Imperial, however, have at times predicted a death toll even smaller than that — as few as 5,700 fatalities if the lockdown continues.
Rival scientists are increasingly critical of Ferguson’s original doomsday predictions, noting that his previous modelled forecasts have been found severely wanting.
Among his critics is Professor Michael Thrusfield of Edinburgh University, co-author of two reports highly critical of Ferguson’s mathematical modelling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis.
Ferguson’s predictive modelling — which helped persuade Tony Blair’s government to carry out a pre-emptive cull which led to the deaths of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs and which cost the UK economy an estimated £10 billion — was subsequently described as “not fit for purpose.""
Noun
Europhile (plural Europhiles)
One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
A political supporter of the European Union.
europhile
Noun
(plural europhiles)
One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
A political supporter of the European Union.
Europhile
in British English
NOUN
1. a person who admires Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
hard-of-thinking
Adjective
(comparative more hard of thinking, superlative most hard of thinking)
(humorous, derogatory) Having difficulty in thinking; stupid.
Europhile (plural Europhiles)
One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
A political supporter of the European Union.
europhile
Noun
(plural europhiles)
One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
A political supporter of the European Union.
Europhile
in British English
NOUN
1. a person who admires Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
hard-of-thinking
Adjective
(comparative more hard of thinking, superlative most hard of thinking)
(humorous, derogatory) Having difficulty in thinking; stupid.
I know that's what it says but I choose to separate Europe from the EUSSR. There is a clear distinction and the dictionary is wrong to assume that a Europhile is also a devotee of the EUSSR. In fact by definition those two positions are mutually exclusive. No lover of Europe can possibly be a fan of the EUSSR, look what it's done to Europe.
