74% of EU citizens think that their country has benefited from EU membership
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The Dutch government has botched implementing these environmental reforms quite a bit in the past, which has caused right wing / anti enviromental parties to swoop in and claim the bigger environmental rules are the problem, instead of the way they were implemented.
There’s this one big ‘farmer’s party’ and a lot of farmers have bought into their lie of representing actual farmers, but the party was founded by lobbyists and their biggest donators are chemical companies who would benefit a ton from being allowed to pollute
You're correct on your analysis, older governments and the farming industry alike essentially ignored the problem hoping it would go away (spoiler: it didnt).
Luckily that farmer party is not big anymore. They do still hold quite some seats in the Dutch senate from the 1-2 elections they were big (which they will lose in a couple of years), but not in the house anymore, where they are essentially only a small party now and are projected no more than 2-4 seats of 150 seats in total. (Sadly most of their voters jumped ship to the next group of populists, the anti immigration party 🥲)
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It'd be funny if all the countries in the world started a unified concerted effort of tariffs against the US. Sure I live here, and I'd suffer, but it'd still be funny.
Lets try to target red states for fun
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Perfect analogy.
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From what I notice in the Netherlands. The people who think the EU does not benefit them are mostly people that work (or own companies) in industries that the EU regulates harshly (think farmers here). Ofc these people think its not beneficial to be in the EU, their livelihoods are at risk because of it.
I do think the EU is basically necessary for the EU countries to thrive.
I think EU didn't benefit my country on a lot of points.
One big point though is the forces capitalism everywhere; like forcing to open energy selling to competition, leading to dismemberment of previously public sectors to the benefit of private company with absolutely 0 added value -
It'd be funny if all the countries in the world started a unified concerted effort of tariffs against the US. Sure I live here, and I'd suffer, but it'd still be funny.
well the entire EU, Mexico and Canada are boycotting so far. really hoping it causes economic hardship for amerikans.
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well the entire EU, Mexico and Canada are boycotting so far. really hoping it causes economic hardship for amerikans.
Internet users everywhere are paying more attention to where their stuff comes from. I'm seeing more Made in Australia stickers on stuff than I have for decades
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He shot himself in the foot so many times he now has a permanent hole where bullets go through, so that way he's not shooting himself in the foot anymore. 10D chess my friend.
He seems to have reduced the popularity of the far right in the rest of the world
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22% are idiots
22% is awfully close to the 20% you can expect to answer a survey "wrong" to spite the person with the temerity to survey them
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He seems to have reduced the popularity of the far right in the rest of the world
Pretty similar to how Brexit reduced the popularity of being anti-EU in the rest of the European Union.
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He seems to have reduced the popularity of the far right in the rest of the world
I fucking hope so, but my experience has been that the world follows US trends, even after they are fervently criticized. I just need the EU to get strapped and get their shit together.
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