Things the EU has done for us recently - Guaranteed a minimum paid parental leave, including the fathers - General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) - forcing all cellphone providers to use USB C cables for charging phones - a 2 year guarantee on non-food purchases - banning lots of chemicals from foods and products - banning several pesticides and herbicides
The EU is a bureaucratic nightmare. But under all that red tape is a seriously massive and extremely powerful entity, that has basically taken a shattered and war torn continent and welded it into a highly successfull economic powerhouse with a high standard of living and many social security safeguards. It's actually really impressive.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance ... and the piles of paperwork that arise when the freedoms, claims and interests of millions of people have to be at least somewhat harmonized.
I live in Ireland and in the last twenty years my quality of life has plummeted. No policing, no right to a basic quality of life in my own home that I worked my butt off for thirty years to buy and paid €300000 for. No rights at work. A year and a half without a domestic water supply. What rights? Twice a local authority has made up lies about me to cover their own shortcomings. In my job there were pages of so called rights and procedures to protect workers none of which were adhered to. I was put up against a wall by a manager five minutes into my working day and threatened with violence. Management would not speak to me about this incident so I got no chance to put my side of the story or even hear the other persons version of events much less reply. Five weeks later I got official notice that the person who threatened me was allowed to put in an official complaint against me. That went on for a year. I asked my union for a rep to accompany me to a meeting. I emailed the rep saying there was no truth to what this manager was saying. I met the rep shortly before the meeting. Just before we went in he said "you just lost your head" letting me know he was on the side of management. Any rights we have in this country are window dressing. I am living in an Orwellian state.
Depends on the page. The EU actually demanded that (very simplified) companies only store the necessary data so they can execute their business and delete it afterwards. Of course you can always ask to collect additional data. And websites played a game of corrupt a wish and made those annoying cookie popups. My recommendation is get a browser extension that always goes for the minimum. It works on 99.9% of the pages, on most you won't even see the popup and in some cases you see it flashing until it autocompletes. And in the rare cases where it doesn't work, deactivate the extension (only for that page) with a simple button click.
@@legoatoom So? Probably 90% of people just blindly click on "allow". Did that make anything better for anyone now? It's an additional click, an additional nuisance which has made the web less user-friendly. Fact.
That's a right almost anywhere though. If testing it is actually an all that good idea may well differ greatly I suppose. Was very recently US case of a woman getting shot for arguing with the police she called there. She seemed quite unhinged and a bit potentially dangerous though, but still. The officer sure seemed to have an itch as well. But this also happens even in EUs often commonly believed safer places, like Sweden for example. Just don't argue before a hearing or trial is usually the safer bet anywhere.
the classic police officer has to do 1.5 years of concept of deescalation training in the US its sometimes not mandatory at all and sometimes just two weeks, soooo the Policeforces grab as fast as possible without trying to deescalate because they do not know it better in the US ...
Let's be honest though, if you were a cop and knew that everybody can own a gun and might be carrying at that moment, would you take chances with people starting to argue?
@@Seedmember News flash: in most EU countries anyone can own a gun. Not in Germany and a few other places, but most countries. Thing is almost no one wants or needs a gun so people don't have guns.
The law about blind people having the right to use the internet means that governmental sites have to be designed in a certain way that makes them useable. For most commercial websites its not mandatory
With the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, it actually is. Every service has to be accessible for disabled people in the same way as for non-disabled people. It's only dependent on the country if it is enforceable or not. (Like in the Netherlands, it absolutely is not)
Actually the thing is called WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and it's recommended to use it for websites, and required for governmental ones.
Exactly as someone that works in a software development team in the EU the WCAG is something we try to apply as much as possible. It's definitely important but it's not easy or free (as in a lot more work to make a website fully accessible)
05:39 in... I have a danish passport but if I am in Africa where Denmark has not a huge presence, I can go to a french embassy and get the same "treatment" as I would if I was a french citizen and that is valuable thanks to the EU
The only problem with this is if you really get in very big troubles like a kidnapping. The French, Italian or the German armies are way more capable than the Danish, Dutch or Belgium ones for example. I'm Dutch, living in France. If I get kidnapped in a middle east country the Dutch governement will wish me "good luck". If I was French, the army would come to my aid.
@@ninokamps4407 Well, the dutch have joined hands with the germans. If you as a dutch are kidnapped in Saudi-Arabia, you can bet the germans will be ready to get involved before the dutch government even asks. On the other hand, if you get kidnapped in France, the french will not let the germans in to investigate.
2:00 "The right to shop" means that you don't have to declare what you bought or pay duty for that, and you are not limited with how much you can buy and transport back to your country. 7:00 The Roma, also known as the Gypsies
Unless you were from the UK of course. Customs checks and restrictions remained in place for the entirety of our membership, whilst Germans, for example, could shop around for cheap Italian or French wine, and take home as much as they wanted.
@@araptorofnote5938that’s not true. Taking a van to France to load up on beer and wine was 100% a thing. The Blue channel for customs at the airports was for travelling from an EU country. There were no checks and no customs agents - instead you got a green strip along your baggage tags to show they were exempt.
It didn’t exist in 2012 I think, now in every EU country you have free roaming (roam like at home), no extra costs for calls, text messages or internet which is super handy while traveling, you cross the border and don’t have to worry about paying anything
@Thurgosh_OG only 1 major provider still offers free eu roaming. As they no longer have to so they don't. O2 making a big deal of the fact they are the only major network that still offer free eu roaming. EE have been removing it as you renew contracts i got caught out by it cost me a decent bit until I could change to another network.
I’m a social worker in the netherlands. The right for disabled people to use the internet is something we take very serious. We want to protect our less abled population online against harassment and abuse. A way too large proportion of less abled people gets exploited and harassed and we want our people to be able to use internet safely and get value out of it.
@@Willywin listen, i get where you are coming from. But you should know that disabled people are often victims of sexual abuse. We don’t control what they do. They are still their own person with a right to engage whatever they want. But we do advise them when a situation feels sketchy.
@@Willywin if u don't get how people with different disabilities can get harassed, abused, or tricked online, then i wish one day you get to experience that for yourself, when you get older and catch maybe some form of dementia, see what happens online, these people you say are "controlling", are much help for people with disabilities, maybe you should try not commenting on stuff you don't have any experience in.
As for the shopping, a few years back (before brexit) I bought a mattress from a UK brand, on their French website. The mattress came from a Polish warehouse, transported by a German company and delivered in Belgium. I find this amazing.
For most Americans, the biggest European right is a negative one; 'medical bankruptcy' is not possible in the EU/EEA. And no, we do NOT pay for ambulances to take us to hospital either.....
Not only that. EU also sets a framework to protect consumer rights such as right to withdraw from a contract, right to fair contract terms, false or misleading claims, rights regarding the collection and use of personal data etc...
@@mipuist Consumer rights, like being forced to pay more for goods and services because of protectionism... You havnt mentioned one thing that ANY independent country couldnt do for itself... Stop pretending the EU serves any useful purpose.
@@Willywin lol, it's not my job to explain to you what are the benefits of common standards. From your posts it seems you don't live in the EU. So, good for you, dunno why you waste time with someone else's business. It makes an impression that you are desperately trying make yourself believe your own story.
@@mipuist Again you are trying to justify the existance of something that is not needed, namely the existance of the EU. Common standards, a false flag... If one country has a domestic voltage of 240 volts as is the case of the UK, does the UK have to reduce its voltage to the voltage used in many mainland countries, or can companies on mainland Europe make products that work on 240 volts. There is no need for common standards, the standards in your country are the standards the people and politicians in your country are happy with - it doesnt need bureaucrats in Brussels to interfere. All you want is centralised control of countries and peoples lives... theres a name for that TYRANNY.
As a Norweigan I can actually carry a gun. But we do have very few hand guns. And non of us do cary. Why should I take my hunting rifles to the grocery store?? We don't need guns for self defence. It's hunting and sports. And I live in a VERY rural area. :) I think I have 14 fire arms in my safe now, shared between my father and me. Yes, we can have guns in Europe. :)
@@huskymad If by "every aspect of your lives" you mean "the right to own and handle highly lethal equipment designed to kill other people", then yes, I believe that it is a good thing.
It didn't even cover some of the major differences between EU and US citizens lives e.g. safety standards, employment laws, environmental protection, consumer rights and in particular food standards. When you look at the things the FDA allow in food it amazes me that there are any old Americans.
Again, what is to stop countries enacting their own Food Safety Laws, the same multi national corporations operate in the EU Orgaisation with very well funded lobbyists. The UK was told it could not stop the cruelty of transporting live animals vast distances across national boundaries for slaughter, because to do so would break EU competition laws??? The EU also prevented the UK from banning the sale of Fois Gras, a food product that is made form force feeding ducks and geese until their livers are so enlarged they die, well they do die as they are killed to harvest the greatly enlarged livers. The reason the UK, a suppsedly soverign country with its own Parliamnet of law makers couldnt ban this product - because it broke EU Organisation competition law - feck being against animal cruelty.
The feeling is quite mutual when EU citizens look at developments in North America as a whole and compare them with those in Canada. I mean, nowhere is perfect. The EU has problems too, some things the EU does cause problems. The same in Canada. Still, it's good to see that some are at least trying.
@@janboogmans2918I think you should stop watch mainstream news and look more video's of Orban (Hugarien) and Christina Anderson ( German) Euro deputies. That way you would know what EU will become in max. 3 years ( Social Credit China) 😂
Theres actually a lot of specific childrens rights in some eu countries that are really interesting, they take the freedom and dignity of children very seriously and seek to foster independence from a young age.
Well yes but also no. Children these days are so 'protected' that they miss out on how to grow and lack life experiences that older generations of children had, to build their character. A good example of this is the PAGs, Participation Awards Generation, who are not taught about the competitive nature of day to day life. They all get an award for turning up and now cannot cope with real life as young adults, who don't get everything handed to them.
Yes. I've watched a couple of videos about giving names to children. European countries usually have laws about what kind of names can be given to children. Americans often interpret this as a lack of freedom, that the government wants to control people's lives. But no, that's not the point: the point is that young children also have rights. They have the right to get a name that will not cause them trouble. They have the right to get a name that is dignified, parents can't call them "Fartface" just because they think it's funny. Some years ago, the EU also made the decision that all children get sex education in school, no matter what their parents feel about that. That's because children have the right to get scientifically correct information about procreation. If their conservative parents don't like that, too bad, because no-one cares.
@@Thurgosh_OG what your talking about is exactly how the US is, and how (most of) the EU isn't over here children are allowed to use public transport, walk to school or go to there friends or sport club without needing a parent to always hover over them. while in the US and Canada those things are illegal and a parent can get their children taken away if they walk to far from their home (without the parent accompanying them) and the participating awards things. no i never have seen that over here, we know it's stupid so we don't do that.
Not just in school. Previously it was rare for most countries not to be involved in some armed conflict almost constantly with major wars every 25 years or so. Peaceful coexistence is a very modern idea that many don't value highly enough
Even though when adjusting the population differences, murder is equal in many countries of Europe and Australia if not higher. I see you have a problem with the Second Amendment rights of the people, while not saying a single thing when Obama bombed Libya over a decade ago, never mind about that. 🤔
@@CuriousEnthusiast956 Typical American response there, void of rationality. Obama was your president, your elected official yet somehow he's relevant here? OP didn't complain about Obama's from over a decade ago thus can't complain about something else he considers an issue? How do you know OP didn't have any qualms about Obama's actions?
@@edcleverley9333 Yes, the coexistence of nations with endless debt, constant shrinking of the middle class, heavy reliance on China for manufacturing which destroys jobs, countries keeping quiet on wars still going on that they endorsed 20 years ago and destroying economies over flus. Yeah, a very peaceful coexistence. Among those that hate you.
You can live in Poland and work in Germany and you (except slightly different signs and different language) won't even notice difference from working in single country ;). I love that :).
Same in Sweden and Norway or Denmark. You can work there, get full payment and still get taxed the same as every Swede. Thats why so many Swedes work at Norway Fishing jobs. Pays extremely well.
Minority which views honest work as something bad. Minority that abuses social benefits Minority that usually do not speak proper language even if they are 5th generation in that country also well known for thefts. I mean if there any minority that is hated more ? and are those reasons for hate justified ? well to put it this way - loads of vietnamese people are all over europe and i never heard someone talk about them badly ...
We just need to be aware that some don't like the former term. It can be tricky to know without asking, and due to general mistreatment over many centuries these groups are understandably quite defensive or even hostile to people approaching them.
Since that video was made, the EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation, which governs who can have your personal data, for what reasons and how it can be handled. Individuals can have their data deleted, companies are required to keep their data accurate (change name etc) and be forgotten at their request. This applies in all EU states (and the UK), as well as the European Economic Area states (EU + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Again, it doesnt take theEU to do that, what is to stop anycountry from doing that???? If they were free countries that is. Also in the EU, they have tighter control of what you can freely see or say on the internet, far tighter than China. Be grateful for the freedom to see and read what you want, int he EU, people dont have that luxury
@@grewdpastor I agree, the whole notion of the EU is BS, it is nothing but an organisation staffed with thousands of highly paid bureaucrats on great pensions paid for by everyone else. It does nothing that free and independent countries cannot do for themselves.. It is a ideological construct with no validity.
"Traveling outside the EU" can just mean, taking a train across the English channel, or a ferry, to visit England, or going through Switzerland on your way to Italy, or visiting any of the countries the EU has free travel agreements with, like Turkey, which is a very popular vacation destination. Shipping something from California to Indiana is much further than shipping something from France to Germany.
Cheaper shipping in the Eu s well, cheaper sipping to the US as well, shipping FROM the US is cripplingly expensive. It is cheaper to buy more expensive fabric from the UK/NZ/Arica and pay customs than to buy initially cheaper fabric from the US and pay the shipping
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Shipping is a huge deal i would say in the EU: It takes no time, cheap as hell and very often has no problems. I live right next to a company that does Shipping to Germany. They go every day, even on nights.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou well yeah most ships from asia to europe go from hong kong to rotterdam and there are approximately 200 major ports on that route to offload and onload cargo. one ship from, idk, new york or baltimore, to rotterdam, 0 major ports on the way, of course its expensive.
PEACE AND PROSPERITY, that was the goal, and overall the EU has delivered. I'm an economist and without looking up the exact numbers it is safe to say the social and economic impact of the EU (and its predecessors) on its citizens and by extention the world can not be understated, yet we take it for granted. I see the failures and the ugly side of european politics as well, the corruption, powergames and overregulation. But overall the economic results are quite remarkable. Those who like me are born in a founding member state dont rember a time before, but ask the newer members. You can always find people that are affected negatively, and nostalgia is a thing ... but really, ask them, ..... . Or ask yourself how you felt about for example Poland 30yrs ago and now? It used to be perceived as backward, the infrastructure was crap. But their minds were great and with EU funds they worked hard. So , fast forward 30yrs and , now they're a perceived as a modern nation, an important voice in Europe, and that is just one example of one country. 😊🤘❤️🇪🇺🇺🇲 We''re an economic union by origine, so that's where we've integrated most and really shine . Producers dont care if for example Belgium bans a product? or demands a universal plug for phone chargers? 😂, but if the EU says "this way or the highway", they have no choice but to comply. So Ryan you can thank the EU for needing only kind of charging cable 😂 in the US as well, of they do it for europe they're gonna do it worldwide coz its cheaper. And that goes for many products. This is how we influence the world most. Hell we could force the US ti go metric if we wanted to 😂 ( a joke, i know we cant 😂) Political integration came later and will probably remain less than the economic one, we will never really become the United States of Europe, and that is fine by me as long as peace and prosperity remains the focus
The founding father of the EU would sign Heil Hitler on correspondence with the Nazis in the 30s. Jean Monnet gained help from his banking friends to capture steel and coal manufacturers as a protection racket. And so the EU was born. Ever increasing power by an unelected executive.
Britain has lost a mafia that runs the world's largest protection racket. As a British person, I do not need to be granted rights or freedom by an unelected executive.
@@Flat-White well there few men with such a legacy. If he were around today, altho i may have my own opinions, i''d at least listen carefully to what he'd have to say. . Schumann is probably betterknown just coz the plan got his name, but both are giants in EU history.
The Roma(ni) and Sinti people came to Europe in medieval times presumably as refugees fleeing the Muslim conquest of northern India and Pakistan. They mostly kept a nomadic lifestyle - not necessarily by choice, but because most countries did not allow them to settle permanently. They were however skilled metal workers and artisans, which was the reason they got a protected status within the Holy Roman Empire (HRE); at the same time they were always victims of discrimination all over Europe, including the states of the HRE. In some countries they were even enslaved. During the Nazi regime most of them were imprisoned in concentration camps and at least 200,000 killed in this Romani Holocaust or "Porajmos". Minimizing shipping costs was one of the main objectives of the EU since the common market was introduced, supported with subsidies and market rules. Unfortunately in the end most of those subsidies went to transport by truck or by air and only a minuscule share to railway transport.
This is similar to how Jewish people were treated in the UK & probably other parts of Europe. They were not allowed to own property or businesses that required factories so they became artisans & merchants. Famously Jesus was reputed to have travelled with his wealthy merchant uncle (the one that donated a tomb) even as far as what is now known as England. This was during the Roman domination of much of Europe & the UK was rich in Tin etc.
@@FTN_Ale Of course not - even if he really existed. The word 'reputed' indicates that the story is legend. However people from all over North Africa & the near east as well as Europe did travel far & wide (even as far as England - we are mongrel breed) - long before the Roman empire. Cheers.
The Muslims had already controlled northern India long before they left. The invasion of Muslim Mongols could have driven them out. The problem was not so much that they were Muslims, but rather that they were conquering Mongols. The problem with this theory is that they have no Arabic loan words. Linguistically, it seems as if they never had contact with Muslims in northern India. This means that their origins remain a mystery. The Roma only passed on their history orally. The Nazi genocide therefore destroyed a lot of knowledge. Today's Roma and Roma speakers know very little about themselves. In Europe, they have broken down into different subgroups, depending on the state in which they lived or the era in which they immigrated. This is why there is no uniform language or culture. Not everyone who speaks Romani is a Roma.
I was confused by that statement, but now I see. I was like, but I also have that right in Japan or the US? Just not the right to go there on a whim? But yeah, that's not without import tax.
The EU imposes what is called VAT, Value Added Tax, for instance when the UK was in the EU, it forced the UK to increase VAT to womens sanitory and childrens clothing products.
It's a lie. I've bought many items in other countries and I've paid an extra import fee on every single one. Countries get around it by calling it a "customs fee" when in reality it's actually an import tax.
"Shop" is actually a big deal ; there is a huge cap in revenue between West and East Europe. Also between Western European countries in terms of taxation. Cigarettes in Spain, for instance, are 30 to 50% cheaper than in France. What's the difference between a French and a Spanish tobacco shop ? Answer : 500 m Also considering shipping ; the average salary in Norway is 4700 USD. It's 300 in Romania.
Norway and Sweden is another great example (yes, I know Norway is non-EU member, but we're a member of the EFTA and EEA, so we're basically almost there). The border cities in Sweden were actually looking to sue the Norwegian government during the pandemic for not letting Norwegians exit Norway so easily, that's how big of a deal it is. Alcohol, tobacco, meat, and sugar is much more heavily taxed in Norway than in Sweden.
Another thing to remember is that VAT/Tax differ from country to country. When purchasing within the EU, you pay VAT/Tax at the point of purchase, not delivery.
9:50: GDPR is mandatory since 2018. Big companies can be fined to 4% of their annual income if they don't comply. So Meta/Alphabet/Apple had to obey the EU rules, else they have to leave the EU market.
The 'surfing the Internet' bit - With lots of government and business functions now primarily available online, it is absolutely right that those websites should be accessible for people with disabilities (e.g. sight problems).
Yep, we have a right here in Sweden that every citizen should get access to internet because of thats where parties have the full like, pages and stuff. If you want to be able to know what to vote on, you need to go on the internet. Its not free, but you can get access everywhere on phones or PCs. 4G is bascially no money at all, and you can go to libraries or even Mcdonalds to get free internet.
@@Szachowo Not really. Structurally there are major problems, and the UK is still in a transition period, where not all changes have been implemented. I hope for the best, but I'm not sure that's realistic.
@@InferiisSwiss here. If a Swiss citizen wants to buy and own a gun, you need a permit from the government. They hardly give any of these permits. So most Swiss don’t have guns.
1:30 That right to shop is more important when you realize that applies to companies importing goods from another EU country. That right means countries can not put import taxes to any good made in any country in the EU. That means, for example, if you are a company from Spain importing chemical products from the Netherlands, those products would not be taxed or even checked at the border. That's a huge deal in international trading.
If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You must look outward if you wanna be successful in life.
The minority is the Roma (or Romani), the gypsies. That's probably the biggest minority in EU and for all their cultural differences, they still are Europeans 🙂
roma are the remants tribes who decided to came back with the Greeks/Hellenes for freedom, after Alexander The Great died, due to being slavedcl & oppressed by other Ancient Indian & Afghan tribes - though some were also slaves of the Greeks who returned too.
@@razor1uk610 the origins of the Romani are a huge topic of debate for a long time. Gypsies don't exactly have written history and most theses are worked over European writings about them. But there are a bunch of problems with that, because migrations included a lot of different ethnicities and the Gypsies themselves are divided in, if I remember it correctly, 3 different groups. From India to Afghanistan, I've read it all. Their origins are still debate and there aren't many certainties.
I am an American who lives in Luxembourg married to a Portuguese Citizen and grocery shop in Germany and go to dinner in France or Belgium on a weekly basis. We speak French, Luxembourgish and German as part of the legal languages. We have traveled outside the EU at least 2x a year. The EU is what happens when the governments come together to ensue that all people are treated equally. Our son attends school in The Netherlands and Luxembourg provides the tuition as the University here in Lux does not offer his program. Our personal data is protected via GDPR and we receive very few robo/sales calls - we can deny any cookies or choose only necessary cookies its awesome
@@CuriousEnthusiast956 there is no country on this planets, that people living inside it would say "oh yea my government is so pure and nice and professional and not corrupt"
I think Elon said: "In the US everything is allowed until it's forbidden. In the EU, everything is forbidden until it's allowed." He means that as criticism of EU restrictions, but those restrictions are someone else's protection...or even his protection. If he visits th EU, he'll be able to enjoy snacks with less potentially carcinogenic additives, he'll have better privacy protection and there won't be people walking around legally carrying guns. As a European, I prefer the freedom I have thanks to the regulations everyone has to abide by.
In almost every country in the EU,there is more Freedom as in America, and between us all European,we are free to go wherever we want, not even Americans are free to move in their own country sometimes, we have some people like that in Europe too, the biggest difference it's between Change country or change state.
In what way in the EU there is more freedom, any examples? I live in the EU, I am European by heart and appreciate the freedoms we have, I just don't see that much difference to the USA. And by the way, the rules and burocratical regulations of the EU often are ridiculous! And this video was really not much more than some promotional video that said almost nothing.
@@toxiccc777 Many of us in Europe, have the freedom to not need Health Insurance because our nations have already paid to give everyone free, at the point of care healthcare. Your comment sounds like you are a US American or you would understand this.
@10:00 actually the rules on privacy have become even much stricter in recent years. Companies are forbidden to even ask for information they don't need from their customers and there are very strict rules on what kind of information you may save as a company.
@@moondaughter1004 And even the shipping fee is not always a thing. I mostly shop my fabrics (for sewing) online, cause in Germany shopping online is much cheaper, even with german online shops. My favorite fabric stores are in Netherlands and France, and for both i have no shipping fees to Germany from a certain amount of money (100€ for dutch and i think it was 150 € for the french). The fabrics are in both cases not much cheaper (certain ones even more expensive) than in german online stores, but they have fabrics that i can't get from german stores.
@@moondaughter1004 Yes. Before Brexit, I used to order stuff from UK Amazon. Now I buy stuff from German Amazon because I'd have to pay extra for stuff that is from a UK company. The funny thing is that the stuff often seems to come from the same warehouses as it did before, because Amazon's warehouses are all over Europe. There's just no way for me to know where something physically is when I buy it, so it is easier to buy everything from the German Amazon. Their postage fees are lower anyways.
I knew immediately that this was an older video because the map showed Great Britain in the EU. However, there are still 27 countries in the EU today despite Brexit because Czechia became a member after this video was published (so there were 28 members, now 27).
And ten more have every intention of joining the club. It is certainly debatable whether all of these countries would actually be an asset, but the sheer interest shows that the EU is a successful concept despite, or perhaps because of, the increasing global uncertainties. There's strength in unity.
@@marcromain64 I am a huge EU fan and would like to see it grow more unified and more effective, but I am also concerned about a number of the members who have joined the club since the fall of the Soviet Union. I am thinking here especially of Poland (which has recently moved in a different direction) and Hungary (which has not). Happy to enjoy the economic benefits offered by being in the EU, but flaunting many of the values that are important to the Union (above all, human rights).
The right to shop was odd before Internet, at least for private citisens. It means that I, as an Italian, can order goods and services from anywhere in the EU without paying extra taxes for the import. At corporate level, though, it means that my grocery can sell French pastries, Irish beef, Czech beer, Belgian chocolate, and Spanish ham without paying import duties, so we can have the best products from all over the EU for cheaper (and export ours more easily). Just to gove you some idea of how the EU works, it runs a program called Erasmus+, according to which any EU student can spend a semester or a full academic year in any other country. It's not just you move over and have to start over, or just visit leaving your studies aside. You actually move to a different university and continue your studies there. If you are an industrial design student in Belgium you can move for a semester or a year to the Politecnico in Milan and seamlessly continue their studies here, before moving back to their university. And all of this to no extra cost. So, basically you can move for a semester or a year to a course in a different country but still just pay your own country's university taxes (or university tuition if you go to a private university). Notice that some non-EU countries also take part to the Erasmus* program. Also, a nurse, doctor, engineer, etc. that is licensed in one country is automatically licensed everywhere in the EU. So, a French nurse can move to work in Spain, and a Spanish architect can move and work as architect in France. Just like that, seamlessly.
Here in Denmark we have a digital ID card and everyone needs to have it. We use it for a lot of online services, so internet access is very important. If you don't have internet or don't know how to use it you can go to a nearby center or get a social worker to come to your house with a laptop.
6:55 @ryanwuzer, interesting that you would react "I would hope so!" regarding the right of the Roma as European citizens. Guaranteeing their non-discrimination and the right to their nomadic way of life would be as if the US guaranteed the right of Native Americans to roam about outside of their reservations into each and every town of the country, and the obligation for these communities to actually welcome and find a place for them to settle for the duration of their stay. Pretty impressive, huh? Not something the Amercians take for granted and certainly not something most "would hope so"...
In my youth we were not allowed to shop in our neighbour country italy, bc we lived too near to the border 20 minutes with the car) and many goods were much cheaper in italy (cigarettes, fashion...)So we had to smuggle our purchases across the border, which was very difficult and “exciting”. We often threw away old jeans, shirts, jackets, shoes, bags... in Italy, put on the new ones and first removed the Italian labels from them and prayed in the train or car that we wouldn't get caught at the controls!!!😅
@@toxiccc777 Ofcourse it's oversimplified, it's two sentences on a RUclips video. But the gist of it is right, the sick man of Europe went off his meds without ensuring he'd entirely recovered beforehand.
@@Gabriel_Ultrakill Wish we could, but I don't think the EU would want us now. And don't forget, we had to wait for De Gaulle to retire before they would let us in, in the first place. Of course, our politicians won't allow us to rejoin either
@@grabtharshammer Most EU citizens don't want UK back. They've always been a pain in the ass, a trojan horse with elitist privileges. If ever, they will have to ditch the Sterling Pound, and that's something British pride couldn't accept.
watching this in 2024 after UK left the EU. Its just reinforced my view that leaving the EU was the biggest act of self sabotage the UK has ever done. It should never have happened.
It was somewhat inevitable and Im glad it was the UK, only the Uk could have survived it. The EU back in 2013-2016 was an extremely popular scape goat for the far right on a variety of issues accross the EU, but in britain especially as britain was the only place that fully saw itself as apart from rather then apart of the EU. Before brexit, the 2 largest sources of constant disinformation about the EU was 2 places, russia, closely followed behind by britain, in the english language the vast bulk of eu disinfo was from britian, even the BBC and other respected news outlets straight up repeated lies about EU laws, procedures and how it works etc. If it was not britain it would have been france or worse germany, and that would have taken the EU with it. Brexit revealed the importance of the EU and also demonstrated how bullshit the scape goating was. And honestly, right now? I want the uk to stay out of the EU, not until your electoral system is fixed, the very toxic politics and media that caused brexit to happen not only still plague britian but actually got worse over time. Britains conservative party was the first to openly ally with the EU's far right, and the default position of a random britain on the EU, By eu standards, is eurosceptic. The "europhile" position in britain, is the centre position for most eu citizens, i.e of coarse we want ourselves to succeed. There were policies and projects that were impossible while britain was a member, the covid recovery programme etc for example would have been vetoed because 50% of the money was a grant and it was shared sovereign debt which was an absolute red line for britain in 2008 (britain is what stopped that even being an option, germany was 50/50 on it). I wont even cover stuff like minority rights or how britain would probably be hungaries biggest ally on refugee policy, the ECHR and ECJ forced britain to recognise trans people exist in the 2000s, your current societies stance on trans people would make their life even harder in the eu.
For the international couples divorce laws: Yes, they can choose which national laws to follow for that, as this doesn't impact their everyday life in the country they life and vice versa. You can have a polish/french couple live in Germany and one working in Belgium and the other in Netherlands. They have to choose between polish or french law. Also, yes, we do regularly shop from different EU-countries. I like shopping fabric online, for my sewing. My favorite online shop is actually dutch. Despite living at the french-swiss border in south-west Germany, that company ships to me way faster than stores from Bavaria (neighboring state) or from northern France (like a 15 minute drive away from me). As for shipping costs: That depends on how big the online store is and what deal they have with shipping companies, such DPD, DHL, etc. In most cases you have free shipping within the country from a certain amount, and like 5 bucks for shipping within the EU. My dutch online fabric shop offers free shipping from 100€ orders and higher for Germany and other close EU-countries, free shipping from 200€ within the EU (with few exceptions like Cyprus and far away islands of EU-countries that are around South-America, for example).
Can you share the names of the shops you like the best? I live in Finland and I can never find fabrics that I like when I would like to sew some clothes or homedecor.😊
I often buy online from England, USA, and China and I am in Australia. Shipping is usually around $6 AUD. If I buy from Eastern States Austtralia (and I am in Western Australia), which is a huge distance, it is often free or a small charge via Australia Post.
Sinti and Roma are very intressting to look at - especially because they are still discriminated. And just because a lot of people say "Gypsies" here - because of history: DONT use it - its like using indians for native americans. Not nice, invented by others and a lot of genocidal shit happend under this name.
They are discriminated by their own choice. Noone is stopping them from integrating, going to school, working...they choose not to. And the few brave ones that break away from their communities to integrate, go to school, work tend to be (even violently) hated by their own people.
@@jakubblaha4904 That's not how any of this works. That's not how systemic discrimination works. There are neonazis having hikes through villages with high PoC populations, children are forcibly segregated in school by getting falsified disability labels or manipulations with schools not run by the government, kids get lower grades for their name or ethnicity, they aren't hired even if they're qualified. When people have a history of slavery (more feudal flavor than chattel, but still) and their usual cultural jobs being criminalized (Social Parasitism, aka the thing used to imprison whoever tf's job didn't support the government, including traveling handyman and entertainers) they'll struggle for generations
@@margaretmacneill3133 compulsory elections, definitly. Don't like it, turn up, spoil your paper, you've made your point, job done! At least that way we know we have the views of the whole population.
@@margaretmacneill3133Totally agree. I can still remember how sick I felt, and how dark the world seemed, when I heard the result on the morning after the referendum.
About cookies in the UK we have a big cookie list, probably the same as you guys. Except we also have a button which says 'Reject All' right at the top of it. Which means only the ones you cant opt out of, the absolutely necessary ones are allowed.
Something u got as members of the EU, that ur Brexiter government didnt get around to getting rid of, while they were too busy annihilating ur workers rights.
It's not all rainbows and sunshine though. 1 in 4 politicians is corrupt or at least severely involved in some shady practices. None of the Quatargate politicians has been punished properly nor denied access to political power. There is some serious shady lobbying going on which are somehow also 'protected' by these same privacy laws. And there's dicators/nepotists like Victor Orbán (Hungary) who try to actively undermine democracy.
Yes, unfortunately it is not perfect, and yet I am happy and grateful to be European and to be allowed to live here👍! We can count ourselves lucky, there is a lot of whining at a very high level😏🫣 🇨🇭✌️
Exactly. I'm European and I wanted to buy a book that was like 2$ on Amazon but the shipping was 40$. I ended up buying the same book from the UK Amazon for 10$ and they shipped it through Germany or France so I didn't have to pay extra
Shipping from North America is expensive because the ships have to cross the Atlantic or Pacific ocean to get anywhere, without any major ports in between. A ship that leaves from Hong Kong to Rotterdam can stop at 200 other ports along the way and exchange cargo, making shipping much cheaper, even if the total journey takes months.
@@moondaughter1004 here in Australia we have Amazon centres in most capital cities, but if they don't carry what your looking for then your shit out of luck. Then it's ordering from china, the US or the EU then waiting 2 or 3 months for it to arrive.
@@alwynemcintyre2184 we got centres in Sweden too but usually the wares are imported from other countries. I can buy a book on the Swedish page but it will still be transported from a different country. I only have to pay for the transport inside of Sweden though. Also yeah I guess it easier in the EU because you can just buy stuff from your neighbor country
One of the downsides of Brexit has been that if you are buying goods fom an EU country, if the order is over a certain amount (£135) we Brits now have to pay customs charges on top of shipping costs......A lot of people are surprised by this.
Unfortunately a small amount of websites doesn't work correctly when this plugin is active. The EU should really rework these cookie banner laws. It has made nothing better for anyone.
@@cdhagen There are no "cookie banner laws". There's GDPR, which doesn't allow third-party tracking without a legal justification. So websites ask for consent and annoy the hell out of visitors just to make a few extra cents or gain some insights. It's perfectly easy to design a website without consent banners. But that also means missing out on the sweet, sweed ad revenue. So what should the EU do here? Weaken data protection regulation to make Big Tech happy?
@@to_loww So what is the situation now? Probably 90% of people just blindly click on "allow". Did that make anything better for anyone now? It's an additional click, an additional nuisance which has made the web less user-friendly. Fact.
6:45 You might know them as "Romani", albeit it is the name for their language. A bit like Mennonites call people "English". Sinti and Roma are travelling folk in Europe, that came here ages ago from what is now Sindh in Pakistan. "Manouches" in France, "Sinti" in Germany and since 1978 "Roma" everywhere else, as it was chosen to replace the derogatory "Gypsy". The whole history of how to call them is super complicated, just don't call them Gypsies. PS. Travellers are a whole different group of people. Jenische also whole different group.
Roma - Not Romar! Originally from the Punjab, these people fled to Europe to escape capture and enslavement by Muslim leaders seeking to expand Islamic territory eastwards. Arriving in Europe, partly because of their darker skin, dress, and culture, they were mistakenly taken to be Egyptians - a term that was later corrupted into the word 'gypsies'
In response to the comment in this video about disabled people being able to surf the internet, I’d just like to make a point if I may. As a disabled person myself, I rely on the internet to carry out day to day activities that able bodied people are able to do in person. For example, I order my groceries online, which get delivered to my door and I do all my admin stuff online, such as banking, bill paying etc. It also enables me to keep in contact with family and friends video call. My GP practice also provides this facility, which is good when you have multiple health issues and need regular contact with your doctor. Also many of the larger internet providers provide a “social tariff” for people in receipt of disability benefits which provides a low cost, no frills internet connection at a low cost. Without it, life would be so much harder
As a side note, travelling outside the EU can mean a trip to Turkey or crossing Switzerland, maybe visiting the Vatican. Not necessarily a trip to Malaysia or somewhere else far away.
And if, like me, you have 2 or more EU nationalities, you can vote in each country at the European parliament :D French-Spanihs (Catalan) here, spring of 2024 was a real hassle: Catalonia government + twice for EU + twice for French parliament = pfff lucky me the school where I vote for France is 300m away from home and the Spain consulate is a 10 minute walk to my kid's school and on the way to my work place
There is a body called the European Postal unit which co-ordinates Postal services across Europe including the countries that are not members of European Community mostly in Eastern Europe.
I was in US in 1996 for some months. I fell in love. Beautiful people and beautiful cities and nature. I was in Miami and everywhere in Florida and in L.A. I wasnt there since, but now i watch some videos on YT and America has become scary. (if is all true). Keep it UP brothers. We need you! You can do it!
6:15 The important thing about internet is if you have a contract for your mobile device that provides you internet via 4 or 5G, works in any EU country without additional charges.
Wrong. While the UK is suffering issues they are not primarily because of Brexit. Problem with people like you who make these blanket statements is you like to ignore that the entirety of Europe went into an Economic crisis during and after Covid, that was made worse by spiralling energy prices due to the Ukraine war. Neither of those things have *anything* to do with Brexit, and both have had a far greater impacts of Britain than Brexit has. This is not to say Brexit has not had an effect, it has and will continue doing so for the short term at the least. However it is not as great an effect as you like to portray. You are using the economic effects of an unusual period to paint Brexit in the worst possible light because you do not approve of the people of the UK voting to leave the EU while ignoring the fact that those effects, which are global, are effecting every nation in the world and have nothing to do with Brexit. No ones economy is doing particularly well right now. Britain is hardly unusual in that regard. So no, Brexit has done no such thing because the initial economic effects of brexit have been overshadowed and eclipsed by global economic factors that have deleteriously affected the economies of every Nation in the World....
@@Hex___666 Germany is in recession because of the policies of the last two decades. Promising markets have been destroyed by bureaucracy for big business and our infrastructure is so damaged just for “saving money” despite being the richest country in Europe... And of course the Russian war in Ukraine hit our economy very hard because we are mainly exporters of goods and were heavily dependent on oil and gas from Russia (Nord-Stream) unlike the UK. The UK is growing after doing a massive belly flop tho. But the most funny part of it is, that Brexiteers campaigned that the EU is so bad and without the EU the UK would be so much better. And now Brexiteers are defending Brexit by celebrating that the worst case scenario did not happen and skillfully ignoring their own lies and propaganda. In the end, the rich 10% benefited and once again the little ones suffer the most.
If you want an example of how the economies of European nations have benefited from joining the EU take the opposite track with an example of a nation that has left the EU such as the UK and Brexit.
If you want to track stupidity and lack of understanding of Economics just look for comments such as yours. I give you two occurrences that have happened since Brexit. 1) Covid. 2) Ukraine War. Both have had huge impacts on virtually every Economy in the world, and are actually the PRIMARY drivers behind Britains current economic condition. Because there is the thing, you are conveniently ignoring the fact that EVERY nation in the EU is currently either in, or climbing out of a recession right now because of Covid and the energy price issues caused by the Ukraine war. Yet you make absolutely no accounting for those in your statement. Which is why you are stupid. Has Brexit had an effect? Sure. But nothing even like as large as the effects of covid and the energy price issues. Those are the two main reasons Britain's Economy is only now climbing out of recession, not Brexit.
😅The Roma or Romani people, previously called Gypsies, are a minority that historically have been discriminated against because their culture is nomadic in nature. So it's important that laws are passed to ensure equal rights for these people.
Not an especially good video (besides being so old) that describes situations very poorly. And yes, the EU is why you get these requests to approve the use of cookies every time you visit a website. It comes from the EU General Data Protection Regulation that entered into force several years ago. I agree with you; while it is in theory an excellent idea, it is really annoying when surfing!
But if you look at what was essentally the law of the land before it is better to have a chance to know who will get your data if you'd choose to accept all cookies.
@@gelbphoenix I‘m completely in favor of the GDPR. I just wish there were a setting that allowed me to block cookies in general so that I didn‘t have to do it every single time. Then there are the websites that give you three choices: accept all cookies, pay for access, or zilch. That somehow seems to circumvent the intent of the GDPR.
@@michaelmedlinger6399 Many pages I see with that decision choice are news outlets that are providing free news coverage. If you don't want that you could use an RSS-Reader for News. In an other point: The intent of the GDPR is that you have to opt-in to having your personal data processed by anybody besides you. Before the GDPR it was in a friendly way a Opt-Out situation.
The way it works is that the EU makes "laws" (rules and directives) that tell countries to pass their own, real, laws on something following the EU guidelines and give them a deadline to pass them. Then, the individual countries' parlaments pass the laws. You often hear people say, "we'll have that by *year* to comply with EU directive *number*". Both EU parlament and countrie's parlaments are elected through direct vote.
Hey Ryan, I wanted to recommend you an old german video: It is called "Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus" or in english "Forklift driver Klaus". If I remember correctly there are versions on RUclips with english subtitles. The video was originally made to teach people that want to get a license to drive a forklift... BUT be warned tho the german humor is great with this one. Have fun 😁
"right to shop". I know for an American it seems strange. But as an Italian, when I went to Slovakia, I had the right to spend and buy only a set quantity of products. When I returned to Italy, the border checked all the expenses, to see if we had bought more things than the communist government had established. I remember that my dad had bought me some skates, and I was forced to leave them at the border because we had no right to buy them.
The EU is a wonderful institution, though by no means perfect. I am still angry and sad that 52% of my fellow UK citizens voted us out. It has been a disaster for the whole country.
@@m.r4841 What utter nonsense! The highest growth in the G7. The 4th highest exports in the world, more than France or Japan. While Germany was in recession for over a year, the UK maintained growth. It is the EU that is performing poorly.
Well, it means countries that haven't adopted yet, are not allowed to charge exuberant exchange rates. It doesn't specifically mean that you can pay with the Euro in shops.
@@saladspinner3200 you can in most big retailers which even have prices in both currencies on the labes printed, but small shops very rarely have that option but in my town some small shops do accept both currencies.
Your nation doesn't have to accept Euros if you don't want to - insome ways Euro is stronger with some nations having their own currency in exchanging rate flexibility. As it allows a greater spread of fiscal protections and balances, without being restricted by Euro entrance rules and exchange rate imbalances permanently.
@@razor1uk610 That's not true, as per the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, EU-membership comes with several binding legal and economic conditions, and one of them is the adoption of the Euro as a currency. (after the required economic criteria have been met)
@@saladspinner3200 adopting the Euro as a national currency IS NOT a requirement for acceptance into the EU. It is preferred that it should be become the national money, but again it is not mandatory. Stop Lying Saladspinner. Poland, Norway & UK have or did when in EU keep their own currencies. Yes Euros are the common currency across the majority of the EU and are accepted in those nations using it as their primary or secondary currency. Your not good at reading comprehension are you SaladSpinner ? Maybe you should switch diet to being an Omnivore, your missing essential animal oils and proteins for you mind. Yes ..I am a triggered buttwhole.
5:04 - Now, this statistic is pure BS - because they only compare women to men, not accounting for differences in profession. Also, nobody complains about there being less women in construction, renovation, metal working or any other low wage profession. They only want women to seem devaluated compared to any CEO of a huge company. This is the worst kind of feminism out there.
The Roma, Or Romani, are a nomadic people. They may also be known as Gypsies, but this is a far broader term than Romani and can be considered an insult.
Things the EU has done for us recently
- Guaranteed a minimum paid parental leave, including the fathers
- General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
- forcing all cellphone providers to use USB C cables for charging phones
- a 2 year guarantee on non-food purchases
- banning lots of chemicals from foods and products
- banning several pesticides and herbicides
Also the Ai act
And much more!
@@jacefromanotherworld Yeah. A strange hardon for surveillance too.
mobile internet without roaming costs in all EU countries is one I like a lot
I love the EU. Best place to live.
The EU is a bureaucratic nightmare. But under all that red tape is a seriously massive and extremely powerful entity, that has basically taken a shattered and war torn continent and welded it into a highly successfull economic powerhouse with a high standard of living and many social security safeguards.
It's actually really impressive.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance ... and the piles of paperwork that arise when the freedoms, claims and interests of millions of people have to be at least somewhat harmonized.
What you call bureaucracy is the laws that protect people from being exploited.
I live in Ireland and in the last twenty years my quality of life has plummeted. No policing, no right to a basic quality of life in my own home that I worked my butt off for thirty years to buy and paid €300000 for. No rights at work. A year and a half without a domestic water supply. What rights? Twice a local authority has made up lies about me to cover their own shortcomings. In my job there were pages of so called rights and procedures to protect workers none of which were adhered to. I was put up against a wall by a manager five minutes into my working day and threatened with violence. Management would not speak to me about this incident so I got no chance to put my side of the story or even hear the other persons version of events much less reply. Five weeks later I got official notice that the person who threatened me was allowed to put in an official complaint against me. That went on for a year. I asked my union for a rep to accompany me to a meeting. I emailed the rep saying there was no truth to what this manager was saying. I met the rep shortly before the meeting. Just before we went in he said "you just lost your head" letting me know he was on the side of management. Any rights we have in this country are window dressing. I am living in an Orwellian state.
@@eoindylan There's always a chance of encountering assholes, but if you only encounter assholes, chances are that you are, in fact, the asshole.
@@marcromain64 That doesn't make any logical sense
As a European I can choose to accept only the neccesary cookies
Yeah on every website, time and time again 🙄 this is probably the most annoying crap the EU has come up with
@@cdhagen You should blame the websites, not the EU for that. The EU only showed you how bad it actually is.
Don't know if it's just a French thing but we can reject all !
Depends on the page.
The EU actually demanded that (very simplified) companies only store the necessary data so they can execute their business and delete it afterwards. Of course you can always ask to collect additional data.
And websites played a game of corrupt a wish and made those annoying cookie popups.
My recommendation is get a browser extension that always goes for the minimum. It works on 99.9% of the pages, on most you won't even see the popup and in some cases you see it flashing until it autocompletes.
And in the rare cases where it doesn't work, deactivate the extension (only for that page) with a simple button click.
@@legoatoom So? Probably 90% of people just blindly click on "allow". Did that make anything better for anyone now? It's an additional click, an additional nuisance which has made the web less user-friendly. Fact.
Right to argue with cops without getting shot
That's a right almost anywhere though. If testing it is actually an all that good idea may well differ greatly I suppose.
Was very recently US case of a woman getting shot for arguing with the police she called there. She seemed quite unhinged and a bit potentially dangerous though, but still. The officer sure seemed to have an itch as well.
But this also happens even in EUs often commonly believed safer places, like Sweden for example. Just don't argue before a hearing or trial is usually the safer bet anywhere.
the classic police officer has to do 1.5 years of concept of deescalation training in the US its sometimes not mandatory at all and sometimes just two weeks, soooo the Policeforces grab as fast as possible without trying to deescalate because they do not know it better in the US ...
Let's be honest though, if you were a cop and knew that everybody can own a gun and might be carrying at that moment, would you take chances with people starting to argue?
@@Seedmember News flash: in most EU countries anyone can own a gun. Not in Germany and a few other places, but most countries. Thing is almost no one wants or needs a gun so people don't have guns.
@@AltCutTV When did anything like that happen in Sweden? 🤔
The law about blind people having the right to use the internet means that governmental sites have to be designed in a certain way that makes them useable. For most commercial websites its not mandatory
With the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, it actually is. Every service has to be accessible for disabled people in the same way as for non-disabled people. It's only dependent on the country if it is enforceable or not. (Like in the Netherlands, it absolutely is not)
@@richardvanderlaak826 This was about eu signatories, not un signatories.
Actually the thing is called WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and it's recommended to use it for websites, and required for governmental ones.
Same in Australia
Exactly as someone that works in a software development team in the EU the WCAG is something we try to apply as much as possible. It's definitely important but it's not easy or free (as in a lot more work to make a website fully accessible)
05:39 in... I have a danish passport but if I am in Africa where Denmark has not a huge presence, I can go to a french embassy and get the same "treatment" as I would if I was a french citizen and that is valuable thanks to the EU
The only problem with this is if you really get in very big troubles like a kidnapping. The French, Italian or the German armies are way more capable than the Danish, Dutch or Belgium ones for example. I'm Dutch, living in France. If I get kidnapped in a middle east country the Dutch governement will wish me "good luck". If I was French, the army would come to my aid.
@@ninokamps4407
That's not a fault of the EU. It's rather a symbol of it not being a United States of Europe yet.
And as a Dutch guy I can go to a Danish embassy . 🎉
@@ninokamps4407 Well, the dutch have joined hands with the germans. If you as a dutch are kidnapped in Saudi-Arabia, you can bet the germans will be ready to get involved before the dutch government even asks.
On the other hand, if you get kidnapped in France, the french will not let the germans in to investigate.
@@Wuppie62 Or rather EU has its own army. But that is a difficult topic.
2:00 "The right to shop" means that you don't have to declare what you bought or pay duty for that, and you are not limited with how much you can buy and transport back to your country.
7:00 The Roma, also known as the Gypsies
Unless you were from the UK of course. Customs checks and restrictions remained in place for the entirety of our membership, whilst Germans, for example, could shop around for cheap Italian or French wine, and take home as much as they wanted.
@@araptorofnote5938 The UK wants to be "extra" again and again and again
@@Skyl3t0n No. The UK just wants its own things to be its and not pushed on them by an unelected Trade club.
@@Skyl3t0n I can usually figure out what EU citizens are trying to say, but your comment makes no sense at all in English.
@@araptorofnote5938that’s not true. Taking a van to France to load up on beer and wine was 100% a thing. The Blue channel for customs at the airports was for travelling from an EU country. There were no checks and no customs agents - instead you got a green strip along your baggage tags to show they were exempt.
It didn’t exist in 2012 I think, now in every EU country you have free roaming (roam like at home), no extra costs for calls, text messages or internet which is super handy while traveling, you cross the border and don’t have to worry about paying anything
The UK are not in the EU and still have free roaming across most of Europe, not just the EU nations.
@@Thurgosh_OG but most EU countries (including mine) cannot roam for free in the UK
@@Thurgosh_OG That's at the discretion of the ISPs, and some at least have started to charge UK customers for roaming in the EU.
@@jacekk_That's because the UK is a 3rd country (non EU) outside of the EU.
@Thurgosh_OG only 1 major provider still offers free eu roaming. As they no longer have to so they don't. O2 making a big deal of the fact they are the only major network that still offer free eu roaming. EE have been removing it as you renew contracts i got caught out by it cost me a decent bit until I could change to another network.
I’m a social worker in the netherlands. The right for disabled people to use the internet is something we take very serious. We want to protect our less abled population online against harassment and abuse. A way too large proportion of less abled people gets exploited and harassed and we want our people to be able to use internet safely and get value out of it.
Basically you want to control what people can say on the internet - and to justify what you say its 'to protect' Be honest - ITS TO CONTROL.
@@Willywin listen, i get where you are coming from. But you should know that disabled people are often victims of sexual abuse. We don’t control what they do. They are still their own person with a right to engage whatever they want. But we do advise them when a situation feels sketchy.
@@WillywinYou must be American
@@iamtiredofchoosinganame I have more in common with the Americans than with the French that's for sure.
@@Willywin if u don't get how people with different disabilities can get harassed, abused, or tricked online, then i wish one day you get to experience that for yourself, when you get older and catch maybe some form of dementia, see what happens online, these people you say are "controlling", are much help for people with disabilities, maybe you should try not commenting on stuff you don't have any experience in.
As for the shopping, a few years back (before brexit) I bought a mattress from a UK brand, on their French website. The mattress came from a Polish warehouse, transported by a German company and delivered in Belgium.
I find this amazing.
Polska mentioned🇵🇱
For most Americans, the biggest European right is a negative one; 'medical bankruptcy' is not possible in the EU/EEA.
And no, we do NOT pay for ambulances to take us to hospital either.....
Scary... In US you get shot abd then go bancrupt to save own life
Yes, thats right
Actually, it's not that simple. I recently had to call an ambulance for myself, and it wasn't free. Still, 25€ isn't exactly huge.
You commented two months ago and still no American has responded with an idiotic “You pay for the ambulance with your taxes!!”
Must be a new record.
actually in belgium and france we do have to pay. More precisely it costs 65e in brussels
Croatia joined the EU and the UK left since this video was made
That video actually aged well
Oh I thought Croatia was in for ages
@@neezduts69420 Since 2013, a year after the video was made.
Regrettably the UK left :( I live there, very sad
The UK left in 2016 to 2020 this left 27 countries.
They mentioned shopping to emphasise you don't have to pay import duties when buying from another EU/EEA country
But it also means you get WHACKED when you buy from countries ouside the EU - its protectionism at its worst.
Not only that. EU also sets a framework to protect consumer rights such as right to withdraw from a contract,
right to fair contract terms, false or misleading claims, rights regarding the collection and use of personal data etc...
@@mipuist Consumer rights, like being forced to pay more for goods and services because of protectionism... You havnt mentioned one thing that ANY independent country couldnt do for itself... Stop pretending the EU serves any useful purpose.
@@Willywin lol, it's not my job to explain to you what are the benefits of common standards. From your posts it seems you don't live in the EU. So, good for you, dunno why you waste time with someone else's business. It makes an impression that you are desperately trying make yourself believe your own story.
@@mipuist Again you are trying to justify the existance of something that is not needed, namely the existance of the EU. Common standards, a false flag... If one country has a domestic voltage of 240 volts as is the case of the UK, does the UK have to reduce its voltage to the voltage used in many mainland countries, or can companies on mainland Europe make products that work on 240 volts. There is no need for common standards, the standards in your country are the standards the people and politicians in your country are happy with - it doesnt need bureaucrats in Brussels to interfere. All you want is centralised control of countries and peoples lives... theres a name for that TYRANNY.
As a Belgian, I can own a gun, but I can not carry it. And I have the right to be unionized and when I am hired, the company can not ask me if I am.
As a Norweigan I can actually carry a gun. But we do have very few hand guns. And non of us do cary. Why should I take my hunting rifles to the grocery store?? We don't need guns for self defence. It's hunting and sports. And I live in a VERY rural area. :) I think I have 14 fire arms in my safe now, shared between my father and me. Yes, we can have guns in Europe. :)
@@TomKirkemo-l5cSame here in Germany. What does the US constitution say... "highly regulated". That's exactly how we do it in Europe.
@@PotsdamSenior Exactly...
@@PotsdamSenior You make having every aspect of your lives organised for you a good thing!!
@@huskymad If by "every aspect of your lives" you mean "the right to own and handle highly lethal equipment designed to kill other people", then yes, I believe that it is a good thing.
It didn't even cover some of the major differences between EU and US citizens lives e.g. safety standards, employment laws, environmental protection, consumer rights and in particular food standards. When you look at the things the FDA allow in food it amazes me that there are any old Americans.
It wasn’t about America, it was about the rights of Europeans.
@@katehobbs2008 We have the right to safe food
Employment laws - such as being able to be fired by text from another country - YES thats possible in the EU.
The EU allowed cross contamination of Beef with Horse meat - a scandal that rocked the UK that doesnt traditionally eat Horse meat.
Again, what is to stop countries enacting their own Food Safety Laws, the same multi national corporations operate in the EU Orgaisation with very well funded lobbyists. The UK was told it could not stop the cruelty of transporting live animals vast distances across national boundaries for slaughter, because to do so would break EU competition laws??? The EU also prevented the UK from banning the sale of Fois Gras, a food product that is made form force feeding ducks and geese until their livers are so enlarged they die, well they do die as they are killed to harvest the greatly enlarged livers. The reason the UK, a suppsedly soverign country with its own Parliamnet of law makers couldnt ban this product - because it broke EU Organisation competition law - feck being against animal cruelty.
As a Canadian, the EU often restores some of my hope for humanity.
The feeling is quite mutual when EU citizens look at developments in North America as a whole and compare them with those in Canada.
I mean, nowhere is perfect. The EU has problems too, some things the EU does cause problems. The same in Canada. Still, it's good to see that some are at least trying.
C’est que vous ne savez rien de l’UE !
@@eugeneviollet-le-duc5971Probabilmente, ma accetta il supporto e stai zitto, da quella parte del mondo di solito vengono solo insulti
@@eugeneviollet-le-duc5971you also seem to know not that much about the EU.
@@janboogmans2918I think you should stop watch mainstream news and look more video's of Orban (Hugarien) and Christina Anderson ( German) Euro deputies.
That way you would know what EU will become in max. 3 years ( Social Credit China) 😂
Theres actually a lot of specific childrens rights in some eu countries that are really interesting, they take the freedom and dignity of children very seriously and seek to foster independence from a young age.
Well yes but also no. Children these days are so 'protected' that they miss out on how to grow and lack life experiences that older generations of children had, to build their character. A good example of this is the PAGs, Participation Awards Generation, who are not taught about the competitive nature of day to day life. They all get an award for turning up and now cannot cope with real life as young adults, who don't get everything handed to them.
@Thurgosh_OG Back to bed grandad, you've forgotten your meds again!
Yes. I've watched a couple of videos about giving names to children. European countries usually have laws about what kind of names can be given to children. Americans often interpret this as a lack of freedom, that the government wants to control people's lives. But no, that's not the point: the point is that young children also have rights. They have the right to get a name that will not cause them trouble. They have the right to get a name that is dignified, parents can't call them "Fartface" just because they think it's funny.
Some years ago, the EU also made the decision that all children get sex education in school, no matter what their parents feel about that. That's because children have the right to get scientifically correct information about procreation. If their conservative parents don't like that, too bad, because no-one cares.
@@Thurgosh_OGLiterally what are you talking about?
@@Thurgosh_OG what your talking about is exactly how the US is, and how (most of) the EU isn't
over here children are allowed to use public transport, walk to school or go to there friends or sport club without needing a parent to always hover over them.
while in the US and Canada those things are illegal and a parent can get their children taken away if they walk to far from their home (without the parent accompanying them)
and the participating awards things. no i never have seen that over here, we know it's stupid so we don't do that.
The right to not get shot in school.
This only means that shooting people is made illegal.
Not just in school. Previously it was rare for most countries not to be involved in some armed conflict almost constantly with major wars every 25 years or so. Peaceful coexistence is a very modern idea that many don't value highly enough
Even though when adjusting the population differences, murder is equal in many countries of Europe and Australia if not higher. I see you have a problem with the Second Amendment rights of the people, while not saying a single thing when Obama bombed Libya over a decade ago, never mind about that. 🤔
@@CuriousEnthusiast956
Typical American response there, void of rationality.
Obama was your president, your elected official yet somehow he's relevant here?
OP didn't complain about Obama's from over a decade ago thus can't complain about something else he considers an issue? How do you know OP didn't have any qualms about Obama's actions?
@@edcleverley9333 Yes, the coexistence of nations with endless debt, constant shrinking of the middle class, heavy reliance on China for manufacturing which destroys jobs, countries keeping quiet on wars still going on that they endorsed 20 years ago and destroying economies over flus. Yeah, a very peaceful coexistence. Among those that hate you.
You can live in Poland and work in Germany and you (except slightly different signs and different language) won't even notice difference from working in single country ;).
I love that :).
I'm pretty sure taxation depends on where you live, same for social security stuff??
@@cdhagen Yup, taxes are different. Social and healthcare also. Same for currency ;)
Same in Sweden and Norway or Denmark. You can work there, get full payment and still get taxed the same as every Swede. Thats why so many Swedes work at Norway Fishing jobs. Pays extremely well.
The minority group she mentioned was "Roma", also known as "gypsies".
Minority which views honest work as something bad.
Minority that abuses social benefits
Minority that usually do not speak proper language even if they are 5th generation in that country
also well known for thefts.
I mean if there any minority that is hated more ? and are those reasons for hate justified ?
well to put it this way - loads of vietnamese people are all over europe and i never heard someone talk about them badly ...
We just need to be aware that some don't like the former term. It can be tricky to know without asking, and due to general mistreatment over many centuries these groups are understandably quite defensive or even hostile to people approaching them.
@@doposud so many of us agree with that, unfortunately we can't send them away.
It's a neat quirk of language that a group of people also known as Travellers have a name that is a homophone of "roamer"
@@stevieinselbyNot really - if it‘s pronounced correctly 😄
Since that video was made, the EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation, which governs who can have your personal data, for what reasons and how it can be handled. Individuals can have their data deleted, companies are required to keep their data accurate (change name etc) and be forgotten at their request. This applies in all EU states (and the UK), as well as the European Economic Area states (EU + Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
GDPR is also required for any foreign company that deals with EU citizen data.
Again, it doesnt take theEU to do that, what is to stop anycountry from doing that???? If they were free countries that is. Also in the EU, they have tighter control of what you can freely see or say on the internet, far tighter than China. Be grateful for the freedom to see and read what you want, int he EU, people dont have that luxury
as someone who only worked in customer service all my life, GDPR is a pain in the .ss but as a person I can see the benefits.
@@Willywin Utter BS.
@@grewdpastor I agree, the whole notion of the EU is BS, it is nothing but an organisation staffed with thousands of highly paid bureaucrats on great pensions paid for by everyone else. It does nothing that free and independent countries cannot do for themselves.. It is a ideological construct with no validity.
"Traveling outside the EU" can just mean, taking a train across the English channel, or a ferry, to visit England, or going through Switzerland on your way to Italy, or visiting any of the countries the EU has free travel agreements with, like Turkey, which is a very popular vacation destination.
Shipping something from California to Indiana is much further than shipping something from France to Germany.
Cheaper shipping in the Eu s well, cheaper sipping to the US as well, shipping FROM the US is cripplingly expensive. It is cheaper to buy more expensive fabric from the UK/NZ/Arica and pay customs than to buy initially cheaper fabric from the US and pay the shipping
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Shipping is a huge deal i would say in the EU: It takes no time, cheap as hell and very often has no problems. I live right next to a company that does Shipping to Germany. They go every day, even on nights.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou well yeah most ships from asia to europe go from hong kong to rotterdam and there are approximately 200 major ports on that route to offload and onload cargo. one ship from, idk, new york or baltimore, to rotterdam, 0 major ports on the way, of course its expensive.
PEACE AND PROSPERITY, that was the goal, and overall the EU has delivered.
I'm an economist and without looking up the exact numbers it is safe to say the social and economic impact of the EU (and its predecessors) on its citizens and by extention the world can not be understated, yet we take it for granted. I see the failures and the ugly side of european politics as well, the corruption, powergames and overregulation. But overall the economic results are quite remarkable. Those who like me are born in a founding member state dont rember a time before, but ask the newer members. You can always find people that are affected negatively, and nostalgia is a thing ... but really, ask them, ..... . Or ask yourself how you felt about for example Poland 30yrs ago and now? It used to be perceived as backward, the infrastructure was crap. But their minds were great and with EU funds they worked hard. So , fast forward 30yrs and , now they're a perceived as a modern nation, an important voice in Europe, and that is just one example of one country. 😊🤘❤️🇪🇺🇺🇲
We''re an economic union by origine, so that's where we've integrated most and really shine . Producers dont care if for example Belgium bans a product? or demands a universal plug for phone chargers? 😂, but if the EU says "this way or the highway", they have no choice but to comply.
So Ryan you can thank the EU for needing only kind of charging cable 😂 in the US as well, of they do it for europe they're gonna do it worldwide coz its cheaper. And that goes for many products. This is how we influence the world most. Hell we could force the US ti go metric if we wanted to 😂
( a joke, i know we cant 😂)
Political integration came later and will probably remain less than the economic one, we will never really become the United States of Europe, and that is fine by me as long as peace and prosperity remains the focus
Well Said.
The founding father of the EU would sign Heil Hitler on correspondence with the Nazis in the 30s. Jean Monnet gained help from his banking friends to capture steel and coal manufacturers as a protection racket.
And so the EU was born. Ever increasing power by an unelected executive.
Jean Monnet said we need to convince people that we are required and needed. ☠️
Britain has lost a mafia that runs the world's largest protection racket.
As a British person, I do not need to be granted rights or freedom by an unelected executive.
@@Flat-White well there few men with such a legacy. If he were around today, altho i may have my own opinions, i''d at least listen carefully to what he'd have to say. . Schumann is probably betterknown just coz the plan got his name, but both are giants in EU history.
The Roma(ni) and Sinti people came to Europe in medieval times presumably as refugees fleeing the Muslim conquest of northern India and Pakistan. They mostly kept a nomadic lifestyle - not necessarily by choice, but because most countries did not allow them to settle permanently. They were however skilled metal workers and artisans, which was the reason they got a protected status within the Holy Roman Empire (HRE); at the same time they were always victims of discrimination all over Europe, including the states of the HRE. In some countries they were even enslaved. During the Nazi regime most of them were imprisoned in concentration camps and at least 200,000 killed in this Romani Holocaust or "Porajmos".
Minimizing shipping costs was one of the main objectives of the EU since the common market was introduced, supported with subsidies and market rules. Unfortunately in the end most of those subsidies went to transport by truck or by air and only a minuscule share to railway transport.
This is similar to how Jewish people were treated in the UK & probably other parts of Europe. They were not allowed to own property or businesses that required factories so they became artisans & merchants. Famously Jesus was reputed to have travelled with his wealthy merchant uncle (the one that donated a tomb) even as far as what is now known as England. This was during the Roman domination of much of Europe & the UK was rich in Tin etc.
Ottomans brought roma(ni)s as slaves in the 15-16-17th centuries into Europe.
@@MazzaEliLi7406 jesus absolutely did not travel until england
@@FTN_Ale Of course not - even if he really existed. The word 'reputed' indicates that the story is legend. However people from all over North Africa & the near east as well as Europe did travel far & wide (even as far as England - we are mongrel breed) - long before the Roman empire. Cheers.
The Muslims had already controlled northern India long before they left. The invasion of Muslim Mongols could have driven them out. The problem was not so much that they were Muslims, but rather that they were conquering Mongols. The problem with this theory is that they have no Arabic loan words. Linguistically, it seems as if they never had contact with Muslims in northern India. This means that their origins remain a mystery. The Roma only passed on their history orally. The Nazi genocide therefore destroyed a lot of knowledge. Today's Roma and Roma speakers know very little about themselves.
In Europe, they have broken down into different subgroups, depending on the state in which they lived or the era in which they immigrated. This is why there is no uniform language or culture. Not everyone who speaks Romani is a Roma.
America is not even in the top 10 countries globally when it comes to personal rights/freedoms.
The right to shop implies no import tax or additional tax.
I was confused by that statement, but now I see. I was like, but I also have that right in Japan or the US? Just not the right to go there on a whim? But yeah, that's not without import tax.
The EU imposes what is called VAT, Value Added Tax, for instance when the UK was in the EU, it forced the UK to increase VAT to womens sanitory and childrens clothing products.
@@Willywin
And how did it force it?... taxes are imposed by national governments, not the EU
It's a lie. I've bought many items in other countries and I've paid an extra import fee on every single one. Countries get around it by calling it a "customs fee" when in reality it's actually an import tax.
@@WolfHeathen Sure, happens on basically every sale imported to any country. But there shouldn't from EU to EU country, specifically.
"Shop" is actually a big deal ; there is a huge cap in revenue between West and East Europe. Also between Western European countries in terms of taxation. Cigarettes in Spain, for instance, are 30 to 50% cheaper than in France. What's the difference between a French and a Spanish tobacco shop ? Answer : 500 m
Also considering shipping ; the average salary in Norway is 4700 USD. It's 300 in Romania.
holy fuck I never realised how low our salaries were. 300? tf?
Norway and Sweden is another great example (yes, I know Norway is non-EU member, but we're a member of the EFTA and EEA, so we're basically almost there). The border cities in Sweden were actually looking to sue the Norwegian government during the pandemic for not letting Norwegians exit Norway so easily, that's how big of a deal it is. Alcohol, tobacco, meat, and sugar is much more heavily taxed in Norway than in Sweden.
@@zrecul4957yes but we try to do everything we can to jump on the next level professionally
Another thing to remember is that VAT/Tax differ from country to country. When purchasing within the EU, you pay VAT/Tax at the point of purchase, not delivery.
@@zrecul4957 466* according to the first link on Google, but if I'm right about 300 is the minimum, no ?
9:50: GDPR is mandatory since 2018. Big companies can be fined to 4% of their annual income if they don't comply.
So Meta/Alphabet/Apple had to obey the EU rules, else they have to leave the EU market.
The 'surfing the Internet' bit - With lots of government and business functions now primarily available online, it is absolutely right that those websites should be accessible for people with disabilities (e.g. sight problems).
Yep, we have a right here in Sweden that every citizen should get access to internet because of thats where parties have the full like, pages and stuff. If you want to be able to know what to vote on, you need to go on the internet. Its not free, but you can get access everywhere on phones or PCs. 4G is bascially no money at all, and you can go to libraries or even Mcdonalds to get free internet.
And this is what Britain lost thanks to Brexit.
And somehow, they still are better economicly than Germany or event France...
@@SzachowoBut worse in sharing that wealth, high poverty rate.
@@Szachowo Not really. Structurally there are major problems, and the UK is still in a transition period, where not all changes have been implemented. I hope for the best, but I'm not sure that's realistic.
@@Szachowo Do stop reading the Scum, Torygraph, Fail and the EXpress and look at actual data
@@Szachowo
Except this is bollocks
USB-C mandation. Your'e welcome. Right to repair, you're welcome. Both things the US would never achieve if left to their own devices.
Hehe... devices
Apple iPhone usb-c!
Europeans have the right that other Europeans do not bear arms
I think in some countries you can. Switzerland for sure, but that's not fully EU.
@@Inferiis Switzerland is not EU at all. They have a variety of customs agreements with the EU, thats it.
@@InferiisSwiss here. If a Swiss citizen wants to buy and own a gun, you need a permit from the government. They hardly give any of these permits. So most Swiss don’t have guns.
Actually, Portuguese people can own guns, generally for hunting I believe
You can concealed carry in Czech Republic.
1:30 That right to shop is more important when you realize that applies to companies importing goods from another EU country. That right means countries can not put import taxes to any good made in any country in the EU. That means, for example, if you are a company from Spain importing chemical products from the Netherlands, those products would not be taxed or even checked at the border. That's a huge deal in international trading.
And they can't ban one country from shipping, if they offer shipping at all.
No two tier citizens in EU.
@@crank1985 Except Eastern Europe EU citizens, they are definitely second tier. Right.
Thats was the reason Eu became Eu in the first place
@@RaduRadonys Do you mean those countries not yet included in Shengen?
@@ThePapaja1996 No, peace is the reason the EU exists.
1:55 It's more about having the right to do all these things *anywhere* in the EU, rather than in just your home country
Thank you for showing this video, because many of us Europeans did not know all this rights and benefits 🙏
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I'm interested in investing, but I'm not sure where to start. Do you have any advice or contacts who can help me out?
Investing can be complex, so it's smart to get professional guidance when building your financial portfolio.
It's a great idea to have a conversation with financial advisors like Amanda Martin to reshape your portfolio.
I spread out my $25k portfolio across various markets to diversify my investments.
That's awesome! I ended up making a net profit of about $115k by investing in high dividend yield stocks, ETFs, and equity.
The minority is the Roma (or Romani), the gypsies.
That's probably the biggest minority in EU and for all their cultural differences, they still are Europeans 🙂
*Roma, Roman is a person from Rome, Italy.
@@ad_astra468 hehe, right😜 revised
roma are the remants tribes who decided to came back with the Greeks/Hellenes for freedom, after Alexander The Great died, due to being slavedcl & oppressed by other Ancient Indian & Afghan tribes - though some were also slaves of the Greeks who returned too.
@@razor1uk610 the origins of the Romani are a huge topic of debate for a long time.
Gypsies don't exactly have written history and most theses are worked over European writings about them.
But there are a bunch of problems with that, because migrations included a lot of different ethnicities and the Gypsies themselves are divided in, if I remember it correctly, 3 different groups.
From India to Afghanistan, I've read it all.
Their origins are still debate and there aren't many certainties.
@@sophiastorm8616 indeed, i only chose a basic logical possibility
You were spot on with the 1/10. "10 % of American tourists travel outside the United States each year"
Pauses every 5 seconds to repeat what was said, then go wow, goes back 10 seconds and does it again. Oh my
I am an American who lives in Luxembourg married to a Portuguese Citizen and grocery shop in Germany and go to dinner in France or Belgium on a weekly basis.
We speak French, Luxembourgish and German as part of the legal languages.
We have traveled outside the EU at least 2x a year.
The EU is what happens when the governments come together to ensue that all people are treated equally.
Our son attends school in The Netherlands and Luxembourg provides the tuition as the University here in Lux does not offer his program.
Our personal data is protected via GDPR and we receive very few robo/sales calls - we can deny any cookies or choose only necessary cookies its awesome
Its easy to see that unlike the US, the EU has a lot of young lawmakers and parliament members
And equally corrupt too. 😊
@@CuriousEnthusiast956not really. Not to say that they're not corrupt, but the US is extremely corrupt
@@CuriousEnthusiast956 there is no country on this planets, that people living inside it would say "oh yea my government is so pure and nice and professional and not corrupt"
Who cares about their age when they are equally corrupt as the 'pensioners'? All they need to be is intelligent and true to the constitution.
@@CuriousEnthusiast956 Tell me a country/state/organization that is not....
I think Elon said: "In the US everything is allowed until it's forbidden. In the EU, everything is forbidden until it's allowed."
He means that as criticism of EU restrictions, but those restrictions are someone else's protection...or even his protection.
If he visits th EU, he'll be able to enjoy snacks with less potentially carcinogenic additives, he'll have better privacy protection and there won't be people walking around legally carrying guns.
As a European, I prefer the freedom I have thanks to the regulations everyone has to abide by.
In almost every country in the EU,there is more Freedom as in America, and between us all European,we are free to go wherever we want, not even Americans are free to move in their own country sometimes, we have some people like that in Europe too, the biggest difference it's between Change country or change state.
In what way in the EU there is more freedom, any examples? I live in the EU, I am European by heart and appreciate the freedoms we have, I just don't see that much difference to the USA. And by the way, the rules and burocratical regulations of the EU often are ridiculous! And this video was really not much more than some promotional video that said almost nothing.
@@lilg2300 You're free from bankruptcy by ambulance...
Jaywalking is not an excuse to be arrested and police isn't some 1984 lapping group...
@@crank1985 "free from bankruptcy by ambulance"
You have clearly no clue what "freedom" means. Are you free to NOT have a health insurance?
@@toxiccc777 In most of Europe even without insurance you'll not be charging for life-threatening ambulance call
@@toxiccc777 Many of us in Europe, have the freedom to not need Health Insurance because our nations have already paid to give everyone free, at the point of care healthcare. Your comment sounds like you are a US American or you would understand this.
@10:00 actually the rules on privacy have become even much stricter in recent years.
Companies are forbidden to even ask for information they don't need from their customers and there are very strict rules on what kind of information you may save as a company.
And its absolutely forbidden to sell the information.
shop without extra import fees or tax.
Exactly. You only gotta pay for the shipping fee
@@moondaughter1004 And even the shipping fee is not always a thing. I mostly shop my fabrics (for sewing) online, cause in Germany shopping online is much cheaper, even with german online shops. My favorite fabric stores are in Netherlands and France, and for both i have no shipping fees to Germany from a certain amount of money (100€ for dutch and i think it was 150 € for the french). The fabrics are in both cases not much cheaper (certain ones even more expensive) than in german online stores, but they have fabrics that i can't get from german stores.
@@moondaughter1004 Yes. Before Brexit, I used to order stuff from UK Amazon. Now I buy stuff from German Amazon because I'd have to pay extra for stuff that is from a UK company. The funny thing is that the stuff often seems to come from the same warehouses as it did before, because Amazon's warehouses are all over Europe. There's just no way for me to know where something physically is when I buy it, so it is easier to buy everything from the German Amazon. Their postage fees are lower anyways.
Cannot you go to Texas from Alaska and buy products... Its just the same, except if you try to buy from outside the EU , you get CLOBBERED.
@@WillywinAlaska and Texas are parts of the same country. There are 27 countries in EU (just about 20 years ago it was only 15 countries).
I knew immediately that this was an older video because the map showed Great Britain in the EU. However, there are still 27 countries in the EU today despite Brexit because Czechia became a member after this video was published (so there were 28 members, now 27).
And ten more have every intention of joining the club.
It is certainly debatable whether all of these countries would actually be an asset, but the sheer interest shows that the EU is a successful concept despite, or perhaps because of, the increasing global uncertainties.
There's strength in unity.
@marcromain64 it certainly would have prevented the many wars that would have happened in last century.
@@marcromain64 I am a huge EU fan and would like to see it grow more unified and more effective, but I am also concerned about a number of the members who have joined the club since the fall of the Soviet Union. I am thinking here especially of Poland (which has recently moved in a different direction) and Hungary (which has not). Happy to enjoy the economic benefits offered by being in the EU, but flaunting many of the values that are important to the Union (above all, human rights).
Winston Churchill was an early supporter of the European Ideal along with a few French and German Politicians.
Croatia joined the EU in 2013 as no. 28 (now 27), not "Czechia"! The Czech Republic joined way back in 2004.
The right to shop was odd before Internet, at least for private citisens. It means that I, as an Italian, can order goods and services from anywhere in the EU without paying extra taxes for the import. At corporate level, though, it means that my grocery can sell French pastries, Irish beef, Czech beer, Belgian chocolate, and Spanish ham without paying import duties, so we can have the best products from all over the EU for cheaper (and export ours more easily).
Just to gove you some idea of how the EU works, it runs a program called Erasmus+, according to which any EU student can spend a semester or a full academic year in any other country. It's not just you move over and have to start over, or just visit leaving your studies aside. You actually move to a different university and continue your studies there. If you are an industrial design student in Belgium you can move for a semester or a year to the Politecnico in Milan and seamlessly continue their studies here, before moving back to their university. And all of this to no extra cost. So, basically you can move for a semester or a year to a course in a different country but still just pay your own country's university taxes (or university tuition if you go to a private university). Notice that some non-EU countries also take part to the Erasmus* program.
Also, a nurse, doctor, engineer, etc. that is licensed in one country is automatically licensed everywhere in the EU. So, a French nurse can move to work in Spain, and a Spanish architect can move and work as architect in France. Just like that, seamlessly.
Regulations in the EU changed quite a lot since 2012, there’s so much more to add !!
Here in Denmark we have a digital ID card and everyone needs to have it. We use it for a lot of online services, so internet access is very important. If you don't have internet or don't know how to use it you can go to a nearby center or get a social worker to come to your house with a laptop.
Yes and the ID with computer chip allows voting with NO cheating 😂😂
6:55 @ryanwuzer, interesting that you would react "I would hope so!" regarding the right of the Roma as European citizens. Guaranteeing their non-discrimination and the right to their nomadic way of life would be as if the US guaranteed the right of Native Americans to roam about outside of their reservations into each and every town of the country, and the obligation for these communities to actually welcome and find a place for them to settle for the duration of their stay. Pretty impressive, huh? Not something the Amercians take for granted and certainly not something most "would hope so"...
In my youth we were not allowed to shop in our neighbour country italy, bc we lived too near to the border 20 minutes with the car) and many goods were much cheaper in italy (cigarettes, fashion...)So we had to smuggle our purchases across the border, which was very difficult and “exciting”. We often threw away old jeans, shirts, jackets, shoes, bags... in Italy, put on the new ones and first removed the Italian labels from them and prayed in the train or car that we wouldn't get caught at the controls!!!😅
Yes the economy exploded through the EU. That's why Britain now have problems after they left
We miss you UK, please come back 🥺
And that's totally not over-simplified at all.
@@toxiccc777
Ofcourse it's oversimplified, it's two sentences on a RUclips video.
But the gist of it is right, the sick man of Europe went off his meds without ensuring he'd entirely recovered beforehand.
@@Gabriel_Ultrakill Wish we could, but I don't think the EU would want us now. And don't forget, we had to wait for De Gaulle to retire before they would let us in, in the first place. Of course, our politicians won't allow us to rejoin either
@@grabtharshammer Most EU citizens don't want UK back. They've always been a pain in the ass, a trojan horse with elitist privileges.
If ever, they will have to ditch the Sterling Pound, and that's something British pride couldn't accept.
watching this in 2024 after UK left the EU. Its just reinforced my view that leaving the EU was the biggest act of self sabotage the UK has ever done. It should never have happened.
It was somewhat inevitable and Im glad it was the UK, only the Uk could have survived it.
The EU back in 2013-2016 was an extremely popular scape goat for the far right on a variety of issues accross the EU, but in britain especially as britain was the only place that fully saw itself as apart from rather then apart of the EU. Before brexit, the 2 largest sources of constant disinformation about the EU was 2 places, russia, closely followed behind by britain, in the english language the vast bulk of eu disinfo was from britian, even the BBC and other respected news outlets straight up repeated lies about EU laws, procedures and how it works etc.
If it was not britain it would have been france or worse germany, and that would have taken the EU with it. Brexit revealed the importance of the EU and also demonstrated how bullshit the scape goating was.
And honestly, right now? I want the uk to stay out of the EU, not until your electoral system is fixed, the very toxic politics and media that caused brexit to happen not only still plague britian but actually got worse over time. Britains conservative party was the first to openly ally with the EU's far right, and the default position of a random britain on the EU, By eu standards, is eurosceptic.
The "europhile" position in britain, is the centre position for most eu citizens, i.e of coarse we want ourselves to succeed. There were policies and projects that were impossible while britain was a member, the covid recovery programme etc for example would have been vetoed because 50% of the money was a grant and it was shared sovereign debt which was an absolute red line for britain in 2008 (britain is what stopped that even being an option, germany was 50/50 on it).
I wont even cover stuff like minority rights or how britain would probably be hungaries biggest ally on refugee policy, the ECHR and ECJ forced britain to recognise trans people exist in the 2000s, your current societies stance on trans people would make their life even harder in the eu.
For the international couples divorce laws: Yes, they can choose which national laws to follow for that, as this doesn't impact their everyday life in the country they life and vice versa.
You can have a polish/french couple live in Germany and one working in Belgium and the other in Netherlands. They have to choose between polish or french law.
Also, yes, we do regularly shop from different EU-countries. I like shopping fabric online, for my sewing. My favorite online shop is actually dutch. Despite living at the french-swiss border in south-west Germany, that company ships to me way faster than stores from Bavaria (neighboring state) or from northern France (like a 15 minute drive away from me).
As for shipping costs: That depends on how big the online store is and what deal they have with shipping companies, such DPD, DHL, etc. In most cases you have free shipping within the country from a certain amount, and like 5 bucks for shipping within the EU. My dutch online fabric shop offers free shipping from 100€ orders and higher for Germany and other close EU-countries, free shipping from 200€ within the EU (with few exceptions like Cyprus and far away islands of EU-countries that are around South-America, for example).
Can you share the names of the shops you like the best? I live in Finland and I can never find fabrics that I like when I would like to sew some clothes or homedecor.😊
1:45 It's the four freedoms, labour, people, services and goods can pass out borders freely.
There are many people who live near the border and work in another country. There are two border crossings per day.
Aktuell ist es jetzt sogar so, dass viele Niederländer, die Grenznah wohnen in Deutschland einkaufen weil es dort günstiger ist
At 2:51 m you interrupt the sentence 5 times, listen to the complete sentence before commenting. I'm bored.
I agree!
I often buy online from England, USA, and China and I am in Australia. Shipping is usually around $6 AUD. If I buy from Eastern States Austtralia (and I am in Western Australia), which is a huge distance, it is often free or a small charge via Australia Post.
Europe is the best place in the world to live!!!
i hate my life
struggle with welfare and healthcare
poisoned by food and water
penile mutilation
bad people
Sinti and Roma are very intressting to look at - especially because they are still discriminated. And just because a lot of people say "Gypsies" here - because of history: DONT use it - its like using indians for native americans. Not nice, invented by others and a lot of genocidal shit happend under this name.
They are discriminated by their own choice. Noone is stopping them from integrating, going to school, working...they choose not to. And the few brave ones that break away from their communities to integrate, go to school, work tend to be (even violently) hated by their own people.
@@jakubblaha4904 That's not how any of this works. That's not how systemic discrimination works. There are neonazis having hikes through villages with high PoC populations, children are forcibly segregated in school by getting falsified disability labels or manipulations with schools not run by the government, kids get lower grades for their name or ethnicity, they aren't hired even if they're qualified. When people have a history of slavery (more feudal flavor than chattel, but still) and their usual cultural jobs being criminalized (Social Parasitism, aka the thing used to imprison whoever tf's job didn't support the government, including traveling handyman and entertainers) they'll struggle for generations
This video should have been pushed in the UK before we had that stupid referendum!!!
This!
@@nazimelmardi the one he was reviewing, sorry!
Brexit could have been avoided if UK had obligatory voting like in Belgium 🫣🫣
@@margaretmacneill3133 compulsory elections, definitly. Don't like it, turn up, spoil your paper, you've made your point, job done! At least that way we know we have the views of the whole population.
@@margaretmacneill3133Totally agree. I can still remember how sick I felt, and how dark the world seemed, when I heard the result on the morning after the referendum.
About cookies in the UK we have a big cookie list, probably the same as you guys. Except we also have a button which says 'Reject All' right at the top of it. Which means only the ones you cant opt out of, the absolutely necessary ones are allowed.
Something u got as members of the EU, that ur Brexiter government didnt get around to getting rid of, while they were too busy annihilating ur workers rights.
It's not all rainbows and sunshine though. 1 in 4 politicians is corrupt or at least severely involved in some shady practices.
None of the Quatargate politicians has been punished properly nor denied access to political power.
There is some serious shady lobbying going on which are somehow also 'protected' by these same privacy laws.
And there's dicators/nepotists like Victor Orbán (Hungary) who try to actively undermine democracy.
Orban essaie de protéger les hongrois de la dictature fasciste UE !
That is true, but where in the World are 1 in 4 or more politicians not corrupt? Definitely not the US.
Yes, unfortunately it is not perfect, and yet I am happy and grateful to be European and to be allowed to live here👍!
We can count ourselves lucky, there is a lot of whining at a very high level😏🫣
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The EU typically cares about all of their citizens, Amerikaans have NO IDEA.
@10:00
No the EU doesn't do an 'awesome' job on privacy. However,it does do a much better job than the USA. 😅
Try buying something from the US in Australia, add exchange rate and postage can easily double the price of an item
Exactly. I'm European and I wanted to buy a book that was like 2$ on Amazon but the shipping was 40$. I ended up buying the same book from the UK Amazon for 10$ and they shipped it through Germany or France so I didn't have to pay extra
This also applies to Iceland (I'm from Iceland).
Shipping from North America is expensive because the ships have to cross the Atlantic or Pacific ocean to get anywhere, without any major ports in between. A ship that leaves from Hong Kong to Rotterdam can stop at 200 other ports along the way and exchange cargo, making shipping much cheaper, even if the total journey takes months.
@@moondaughter1004 here in Australia we have Amazon centres in most capital cities, but if they don't carry what your looking for then your shit out of luck. Then it's ordering from china, the US or the EU then waiting 2 or 3 months for it to arrive.
@@alwynemcintyre2184 we got centres in Sweden too but usually the wares are imported from other countries. I can buy a book on the Swedish page but it will still be transported from a different country. I only have to pay for the transport inside of Sweden though. Also yeah I guess it easier in the EU because you can just buy stuff from your neighbor country
7:00 The Roma are one of the groups that used to get lumped together as gypsies.
One of the downsides of Brexit has been that if you are buying goods fom an EU country, if the order is over a certain amount (£135) we Brits now have to pay customs charges on top of shipping costs......A lot of people are surprised by this.
Guys, you voted it. Same as America voted Trump. Self inflicted pain
@@MrsUnderwriter Not me!
6:30 as an example gouvernment websites need to be accessible for blind people
10:30 there is
its called:"I still dont care about cookies"
a simple browser extention
That doesn't make the decision you probably want (which is "deny" in almost all cases).
@@to_loww Try Consent-O-Matic. It navigates the cookie screens in the background and you can choose what type of tracking you want to disable.
Unfortunately a small amount of websites doesn't work correctly when this plugin is active. The EU should really rework these cookie banner laws. It has made nothing better for anyone.
@@cdhagen There are no "cookie banner laws". There's GDPR, which doesn't allow third-party tracking without a legal justification. So websites ask for consent and annoy the hell out of visitors just to make a few extra cents or gain some insights.
It's perfectly easy to design a website without consent banners. But that also means missing out on the sweet, sweed ad revenue.
So what should the EU do here? Weaken data protection regulation to make Big Tech happy?
@@to_loww So what is the situation now? Probably 90% of people just blindly click on "allow". Did that make anything better for anyone now? It's an additional click, an additional nuisance which has made the web less user-friendly. Fact.
6:45 You might know them as "Romani", albeit it is the name for their language. A bit like Mennonites call people "English".
Sinti and Roma are travelling folk in Europe, that came here ages ago from what is now Sindh in Pakistan. "Manouches" in France, "Sinti" in Germany and since 1978 "Roma" everywhere else, as it was chosen to replace the derogatory "Gypsy".
The whole history of how to call them is super complicated, just don't call them Gypsies.
PS. Travellers are a whole different group of people. Jenische also whole different group.
Roma - Not Romar! Originally from the Punjab, these people fled to Europe to escape capture and enslavement by Muslim leaders seeking to expand Islamic territory eastwards. Arriving in Europe, partly because of their darker skin, dress, and culture, they were mistakenly taken to be Egyptians - a term that was later corrupted into the word 'gypsies'
8:36 Quote: "The EU has to be phenomenal!". Yes, indeed... the EU is phenomenal.
In response to the comment in this video about disabled people being able to surf the internet, I’d just like to make a point if I may. As a disabled person myself, I rely on the internet to carry out day to day activities that able bodied people are able to do in person. For example, I order my groceries online, which get delivered to my door and I do all my admin stuff online, such as banking, bill paying etc. It also enables me to keep in contact with family and friends video call. My GP practice also provides this facility, which is good when you have multiple health issues and need regular contact with your doctor. Also many of the larger internet providers provide a “social tariff” for people in receipt of disability benefits which provides a low cost, no frills internet connection at a low cost. Without it, life would be so much harder
As a side note, travelling outside the EU can mean a trip to Turkey or crossing Switzerland, maybe visiting the Vatican. Not necessarily a trip to Malaysia or somewhere else far away.
The right to shop means , wherever you go to shop, you do not pay Tax on the frontier of your country
And there is more now. You live in an other country in Eu ? You can vote on city election or become mayor if you wish ^^.
And you can vote for referenda too.
I hope one day we can vote for foreign politicians and partys as well
And if, like me, you have 2 or more EU nationalities, you can vote in each country at the European parliament :D
French-Spanihs (Catalan) here, spring of 2024 was a real hassle: Catalonia government + twice for EU + twice for French parliament = pfff lucky me the school where I vote for France is 300m away from home and the Spain consulate is a 10 minute walk to my kid's school and on the way to my work place
@@esthermimart3935 Harsh but thank you for voting. People don't really do it and as a french i do it to keep my right to bitch and moan 😁.
There is a body called the European Postal unit which co-ordinates Postal services across Europe including the countries that are not members of European
Community mostly in Eastern Europe.
I was in US in 1996 for some months. I fell in love. Beautiful people and beautiful cities and nature. I was in Miami and everywhere in Florida and in L.A. I wasnt there since, but now i watch some videos on YT and America has become scary. (if is all true). Keep it UP brothers. We need you! You can do it!
The food there made it impossible for me.
Living in Europe is nice, you can cross the border with no problems, just take ur id or passport with you
Personally, I feel good when I get to press "Reject all" or "Use necessary cookies only". Nice to have the choice.
The Roma are the Gypsies of Indian origins who migrated to Europe over 1000 years ago.
More countries have joined since this video though and many of these issues have improve a lot since
Only one, actually, and Great Britain left, so there are still 27 countries in the EU.
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only Croatia. in 2013
1 is more countries? Nice.....
6:15 The important thing about internet is if you have a contract for your mobile device that provides you internet via 4 or 5G, works in any EU country without additional charges.
6:59 - Many Brits add Rs where they don't belong. Linguists call it "intrusive R" or "phantom R".
Well Brexit has given us an example on how important the EU is for our economies
Seeing as the UK is growing faster then it has in years and Germany is in recession it just shows how much you've been brainwashed.
Wrong. While the UK is suffering issues they are not primarily because of Brexit. Problem with people like you who make these blanket statements is you like to ignore that the entirety of Europe went into an Economic crisis during and after Covid, that was made worse by spiralling
energy prices due to the Ukraine war. Neither of those things have *anything* to do with Brexit, and both have had a far greater impacts of Britain than Brexit has.
This is not to say Brexit has not had an effect, it has and will continue doing so for the short term at the least. However it is not as great an effect as you like to portray. You are using the economic effects of an unusual period to paint Brexit in the worst possible light because you do not approve of the people of the UK voting to leave the EU while ignoring the fact that those effects, which are global, are effecting every nation in the world and have nothing to do with Brexit.
No ones economy is doing particularly well right now. Britain is hardly unusual in that regard.
So no, Brexit has done no such thing because the initial economic effects of brexit have been overshadowed and eclipsed by global economic factors that have deleteriously affected the economies of every Nation in the World....
@@michelangelobuonarroti4958 That why we're growing and Germany is in recession?
@@Hex___666 Germany is in recession because of the policies of the last two decades. Promising markets have been destroyed by bureaucracy for big business and our infrastructure is so damaged just for “saving money” despite being the richest country in Europe... And of course the Russian war in Ukraine hit our economy very hard because we are mainly exporters of goods and were heavily dependent on oil and gas from Russia (Nord-Stream) unlike the UK. The UK is growing after doing a massive belly flop tho. But the most funny part of it is, that Brexiteers campaigned that the EU is so bad and without the EU the UK would be so much better. And now Brexiteers are defending Brexit by celebrating that the worst case scenario did not happen and skillfully ignoring their own lies and propaganda. In the end, the rich 10% benefited and once again the little ones suffer the most.
@@fabiansaerve What a load or rubbish, I suggest you check out UK growth against Europe for last few years.
as a european, most sites i visit have accept cookies, and only accept essential cookies
Double chocolate chip (milk and dark choc) are best 😂
@@razor1uk610 Those are the essential cookies.
Yes, its an EU requirement, that we be given the option on only accepting essential cookies aka cookies needed for the site to function.
If you want an example of how the economies of European nations have benefited from joining the EU take the opposite track with an example of a nation that has left the EU such as the UK and Brexit.
If you want to track stupidity and lack of understanding of Economics just look for comments such as yours.
I give you two occurrences that have happened since Brexit. 1) Covid. 2) Ukraine War. Both have had huge impacts on virtually every Economy in the world, and are actually the PRIMARY drivers behind Britains current economic condition.
Because there is the thing, you are conveniently ignoring the fact that EVERY nation in the EU is currently either in, or climbing out of a recession right now because of Covid and the energy price issues caused by the Ukraine war. Yet you make absolutely no accounting for those in your statement.
Which is why you are stupid.
Has Brexit had an effect? Sure. But nothing even like as large as the effects of covid and the energy price issues. Those are the two main reasons Britain's Economy is only now climbing out of recession, not Brexit.
What you heard was "The Roma" plus a British connecting R cause it was followed by a vowel, like in "I saw'R'it yesterday"
😅The Roma or Romani people, previously called Gypsies, are a minority that historically have been discriminated against because their culture is nomadic in nature. So it's important that laws are passed to ensure equal rights for these people.
6:54 the Roma people
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary and a European's opinion on the Roma! 🙈
for further clarification - widely known as gypsies
@@taddufort8400that term is outdated and offensive
@@RandyMahnkewhy? What is bad about that word? It is an old word, that's all.
@@RandyMahnkeAre you sure, 'our' Roma insist on the term.
Not an especially good video (besides being so old) that describes situations very poorly. And yes, the EU is why you get these requests to approve the use of cookies every time you visit a website. It comes from the EU General Data Protection Regulation that entered into force several years ago. I agree with you; while it is in theory an excellent idea, it is really annoying when surfing!
@@michaelmedlinger6399
Wow, what a tough life you lead.
But if you look at what was essentally the law of the land before it is better to have a chance to know who will get your data if you'd choose to accept all cookies.
@@gelbphoenix I‘m completely in favor of the GDPR. I just wish there were a setting that allowed me to block cookies in general so that I didn‘t have to do it every single time. Then there are the websites that give you three choices: accept all cookies, pay for access, or zilch. That somehow seems to circumvent the intent of the GDPR.
@@michaelmedlinger6399 Many pages I see with that decision choice are news outlets that are providing free news coverage. If you don't want that you could use an RSS-Reader for News.
In an other point: The intent of the GDPR is that you have to opt-in to having your personal data processed by anybody besides you. Before the GDPR it was in a friendly way a Opt-Out situation.
@@michaelmedlinger6399 Isn't there a browser extension for that?
For firefox the add-on is called Cookie Cutter GDPR Auto-Deny.
Do you know that EU is not a state like the USA.
The USA is an assembly of states, not a state itself.
The way it works is that the EU makes "laws" (rules and directives) that tell countries to pass their own, real, laws on something following the EU guidelines and give them a deadline to pass them. Then, the individual countries' parlaments pass the laws. You often hear people say, "we'll have that by *year* to comply with EU directive *number*". Both EU parlament and countrie's parlaments are elected through direct vote.
Hey Ryan, I wanted to recommend you an old german video:
It is called "Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus" or in english "Forklift driver Klaus".
If I remember correctly there are versions on RUclips with english subtitles.
The video was originally made to teach people that want to get a license to drive a forklift...
BUT be warned tho the german humor is great with this one.
Have fun 😁
"right to shop". I know for an American it seems strange. But as an Italian, when I went to Slovakia, I had the right to spend and buy only a set quantity of products. When I returned to Italy, the border checked all the expenses, to see if we had bought more things than the communist government had established. I remember that my dad had bought me some skates, and I was forced to leave them at the border because we had no right to buy them.
The EU is a wonderful institution, though by no means perfect. I am still angry and sad that 52% of my fellow UK citizens voted us out. It has been a disaster for the whole country.
List the disasters, please.
@@archiebald4717They have the lowest and worst economy in Europe aside from Russia which has been heavily sanctioned.
@@m.r4841 What utter nonsense! The highest growth in the G7. The 4th highest exports in the world, more than France or Japan. While Germany was in recession for over a year, the UK maintained growth. It is the EU that is performing poorly.
@@archiebald4717 You are either lying or highly ignorant. Which is it?
@@m.r4841 Well informed.
Also the right to shop means you can use Euro currency to pay for things even in the EU countries that did not switched to Euro.
Well, it means countries that haven't adopted yet, are not allowed to charge exuberant exchange rates. It doesn't specifically mean that you can pay with the Euro in shops.
@@saladspinner3200 you can in most big retailers which even have prices in both currencies on the labes printed, but small shops very rarely have that option but in my town some small shops do accept both currencies.
Your nation doesn't have to accept Euros if you don't want to - insome ways Euro is stronger with some nations having their own currency in exchanging rate flexibility.
As it allows a greater spread of fiscal protections and balances, without being restricted by Euro entrance rules and exchange rate imbalances permanently.
@@razor1uk610 That's not true, as per the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, EU-membership comes with several binding legal and economic conditions, and one of them is the adoption of the Euro as a currency. (after the required economic criteria have been met)
@@saladspinner3200 adopting the Euro as a national currency IS NOT a requirement for acceptance into the EU.
It is preferred that it should be become the national money, but again it is not mandatory.
Stop Lying Saladspinner.
Poland, Norway & UK have or did when in EU keep their own currencies.
Yes Euros are the common currency across the majority of the EU and are accepted in those nations using it as their primary or secondary currency.
Your not good at reading comprehension are you SaladSpinner ?
Maybe you should switch diet to being an Omnivore, your missing essential animal oils and proteins for you mind.
Yes ..I am a triggered buttwhole.
5:04 - Now, this statistic is pure BS - because they only compare women to men, not accounting for differences in profession. Also, nobody complains about there being less women in construction, renovation, metal working or any other low wage profession. They only want women to seem devaluated compared to any CEO of a huge company. This is the worst kind of feminism out there.
The Roma, Or Romani, are a nomadic people. They may also be known as Gypsies, but this is a far broader term than Romani and can be considered an insult.