Europe Day

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Happy Europe day fellow Europeans! Let this be a time of remembrance of how long we have come since the days of WWI and WWII, and how distant the thought of taking up arms against one's neighbour is nowadays.

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Europe is united now
United that it may remain;
Our unity in diversity
May contribute to world peace.

May there forever reign in Europe
Faith and justice and Freedom
For all its many people
In a greater motherland

Citizens, Europe will flourish,
A great task calls on to you.
The stars in the night sky
Are the symbols that unite us.

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Est Europa nunc unita
et unita maneat;
una in diversitate
pacem mundi augeat.

Semper regant in Europa
fides et iustitia
et libertas populorum
in maiore patria.

Cives, floreat Europa,
opus magnum vocat vos.
Stellae signa sunt in caelo
aureae, quae iungant nos.

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Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium!
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, Dein Heiligtum.

Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo Dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

[Fragony]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ycg...layer_embedded

Happy EUSSR day

[Furunculus]

thank god the foreign office and the treasury are not going along with this nonsense, no EU flags for them.

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just in case anyone is unaware; Europe Day is a celebration of Robert Schuman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuman_Declaration

So what this is is a celebration of supranational governance in general, and a federal europe in particular.

In fact, this is the circle-jerk day for the rank idiocy that is transnational progressivism.

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Understandably I want no part in it.

[Subotan]

I guess Independence Day must be Circlejerk Day for Americans then, mhm?

[Furunculus]

they got independence, we got ever-deeper-union, there is an appreciable difference.

[Cute Wolf]

well, Napoleon's dream finally comes true, minus England and Napoleon as Emperor.

[Furunculus]

well, Napoleon's dream finally comes true, minus England and Napoleon as Emperor.

denmark deserves credit too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-out...an_Union#Table

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hilariously #no2eu is trending on twitter during europe day!

[Fragony]

Can I make a Godwin

[Subotan]

So long as I get to wish you a very happy Europe Day.

[Furunculus]

fill your boots.

[Fragony]

So long as I get to wish you a very happy Europe Day.

Of course you can but it would be cruel

[Louis VI the Fat]

Hurray for the prettiest of all continents!

Furunculus and Fragony are jealous incontinents. ~:hurray: :europe:

~~o~~o~~<<oOo>>~~o~~o~~

The world watches in awe:

[Furunculus]

genius video Louis!

[Strike For The South]

THOSE VIDEOS OF MY SISTER ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PRIVATE!

[Hax]

She nearly done messed up thar.

[Louis VI the Fat]

THOSE VIDEOS OF MY SISTER ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PRIVATE!

Don't worry! Those videos of your sis I make sure are kept private by only sharing them in the secret Mod pr0n stash.

[Fragony]

Oh dear. In her defence, she can probably suck the white out of your eyes

[HoreTore]

EU: the greatest chance europe has ever had of finally ridding itself with the petty nationalism which infest the continent.

Death to the nation-state, long live the Union!

[Furunculus]

says the man from a country outside the eu........ :p

[HoreTore]

says the man from a country outside the eu........ :p

Norway is, as they say, more european than any other european country. We have adopted each and every rule, standard, etc that comes from Brüssels. Why? Because the EU is good for not just our economy, but every other economy as well.

The only real difference between Norway and a member state is that the member state has representation and influence, which Norway does not. Almost everything else is the same.

Also, why does it matter where I'm from? Is a Chinese man's dream of democracy ridiculous because he doesn't live in one?

[Peasant Phill]

66 years without a war between the member states.

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo Dein sanfter Flügel weilt. indeed

[Ice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ycg...layer_embedded

Happy EUSSR day

This guy is awesome. Thanks for the video.

[Strike For The South]

You can jeer in parliment?

Maybe blighty is more than Hogwarts and footy......

[Husar]

Norway is, as they say, more european than any other european country. We have adopted each and every rule, standard, etc that comes from Brüssels. Why? Because the EU is good for not just our economy, but every other economy as well.

That depends, while I generally support the Union etc. I am increasingly getting the impressions that the people who make decisions are not thinking things through, or in other words, not doing their jobs properly.
One indication of course, is that Greece got into the Eurozone by lying and noone noticed they faked their finances.
Another is that we're all forced to use CFLs now but a laboratory working for a german TV magazine apparently found out that they emit carcinogenic gases.
Link is in German because I cannot find one in english, google translate may be of help.
Add to that that if they break, they poison the whole room as well with all the heavy metals etc. in them.
And thanks to the EU, we cannot go back, LED may be an alternative but they're still expensive, not always suited for the same tasks and who knows how poisonous they are?

[HoreTore]

Bah!

[gaelic cowboy]

Another is that we're all forced to use CFLs now but a laboratory working for a german TV magazine apparently found out that they emit carcinogenic gases.
Link is in German because I cannot find one in english, google translate may be of help.
Add to that that if they break, they poison the whole room as well with all the heavy metals etc. in them.
And thanks to the EU, we cannot go back, LED may be an alternative but they're still expensive, not always suited for the same tasks and who knows how poisonous they are?

There is a loophole you market them as heaters due to the element inside the glass and take advantage of purely coincidently illumination.

[HoreTore]

Some people are always afraid of new technology.

Flourescent light is complrtely superior to the old bulb. There is absolutely no advantage to the latter in regards to the former.

This is one of the reasons why the EU is great: it can force through change in spite of the people who are afraid of new technology.

[gaelic cowboy]

Some people are always afraid of new technology.

Flourescent light is complrtely superior to the old bulb. There is absolutely no advantage to the latter in regards to the former.

This is one of the reasons why the EU is great: it can force through change in spite of the people who are afraid of new technology.

Untrue there can be many reasons for the use of either incandessant or flourescent light, you dont dictate such a thing instead you use the correct light for the job in hand.

You dont fix a slate roof with a sledgehammer now do you???

[HoreTore]

Name one.

[Furunculus]

Also, why does it matter where I'm from? Is a Chinese man's dream of democracy ridiculous because he doesn't live in one?

no, but your implication that Norway isn't a 'proper' democracy, because it isn't in the EU, is. if that is indeed what you allude to by mention of china. :)