I never understood why Spain cares so much about the EU recognizing small regions independancy like, as long as Spain itself remain in the EU, an independant catalonia would be shut off of the EU, one country can veto entry to new members. So why do they care. Catalonia needs the EU and if they take independance theyll never get it. And no amount of crying to other EU members or other EU official could change that
@@heatea5255Because any incentive is enough to spark protests again and again. And that is bad for bussines, for the economy and for the country's image in general. So, yeah... maybe, eventually, they will, with international pressure.
@@ibx2cat Norway, Switzerland and Island are Schengen countries, a lot of contract connect them with the EU, Russia and GB are not Schengen countries, so probably GB and Russia will create a "new Soviet Union". Norway and Switzerland are de facto members of the EU.
How it will happen -join eu -gets second most important country in eu - Germany and France laugh at Russia - leaves EU - try to make Germany dependend on them - fails - cries in pain
Funny how 2 weeks after you made this vid, Greece and Macedonia made a deal after all. Macedonia agreed to change its name to North Macedonia and with that the most ridiculous political conflict in European history finally came to a close.
Europe needs to stay united and integrated. The EU is not perfect but it definitely should be fixed not thrown away. It needs reform and revolution. Wanting its destruction is counterproductive and very small minded and short sighted.
@PUTEN VOR they put themselves in that situation then like the irresponsible parents of the EU they are they just want to bail when they don't get exactly what they want. I guess if it is what there people want they should but other wise they are being jerks.
Yes this, the EU would be a great idea as an economic bloc, BUUUTTT the Euro, immigration policies and the overall proven incompetent and overreaching leadership has truly turned the EU into shit. I agree with Viktor Orban that the EU would be a great economic bloc but that super state idea simply isn't gonna work. Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungary proved that much.
Lord Varamyr Yugoslavia and AustraiaHungary didn’t prove that as they weren’t democratic, and suppressed other cultures inside their borders. Take India for example. Much much much more divers than Europe, and nobody though it would work as a nations. The currency didn’t fail. It was only for a while because Greece lied about their debt, and it had nothing to do with the EU The migrations crisis had nothing do to with the EU. It just made it easier to travel inside it. It should have had something to do with the EU is a sense that the nations should of worked togeather, therefor dispsering immigrants all across the continent instead of a few places in the norther nations. This would have made them have to adapt to our culture.
As long as turkey is illegally occupying another EU member state, they will never be able to join. They’d probs have to give all of cyprus back to the republic of cyprus before that
Oligu. As a Turkish . It should be but we know what happened between 1963-1974 Greeks Cypriot killed thousand of Turkish Cypriot and react about it also Turkey guarantor country of Cyprus so They have reasons to invade . First of all be respect and make empty
cyprus shouldnt have done genocide against turks and shouldnt have broken the 1960 treaty then we wouldnt had the need to do our legal peace operation do some research before you talk
Kemal vegeta oh I should do my research? Have done plenty on that subject I guess. And not having a bias like you two could help for a better view. Yes, some cypriots massacred many Turks in the 70s (a little bit already in the 60s) and many fled villages, never said anything else? Turkish cypriots massacred a fair share of “greeks” themselves. And rid entire villages of people of greek ancestry. Talking about a genocide from the Cypriots is just wrong and “an insult” to the millions dead from actual genocide. And calling an occupation that has not been recognised by ANYBODY WORLDWIDE a “legal peace operation”?? With that rhetoric you could well be an US president
Kemal vegeta and my comment wasn’t even about who started what, or anything in the past for that matter. But as of right now, for all of the other EU countries, that land belongs to Cyprus. And that will make it impossible for turkey to join
Turks did it to Greeks for centuries and did it in 1942 with the Varlik Vergisi and 1954 Istanbul pogrom which is what started the problems after 1923 when Ata Turk and Venizelos said they will end all disputes after the Greek genocide and Greece trying to save Greeks in Anatolia from 1919 - 1923. As always Turks start the problems.
Under the current mechanism, many countries could never join because someone always gonna block it. The Baltics and Poland would block Russia. Kosovo would be blocked by anyone who did not recognize it. Turkey always had trouble with Greece.
2cat, you're so wrong about Kazakh-Russian relations. Kazakhstan is one of the most ardent allies of Russia, and the initiator of the transit agreements and the Eurasian Economic Union. They are NOT breaking their relations with Russia, in fact, relations are better than ever.
Ive been to Kazakhstan twice, while it is true that Nazarbayev is a little strong man like from what I can tell he is actually genuinely pretty popular in Kazakhstan.
My Co-worker i from there he and his family moved away form there a decade ago or so. He was named after him (Nursultan) because he was popular at the time of his birth. Now he owns most of the economy and gets richer and richer and gives jobs to his family members while the most people in Kazakhstan getting poorer and poorer. So i doubt that his election victory is without cheating (he may would have won without cheating but he cheated anyway so he could have 98% of the votes).
I'm not endorsing the man; I think he is pretty authoritarian and the fact he is everywhere you go in Kazakhstan, particularly Astana feels pretty dystopian. He is still a pretty widely popular figure amongst most Kazakh's though.
but not 98% popular ;P not even Jesus would get 98% of the votes if there would be election in Vatican city. No one ever wins with such a high percentage since its impossible to make everyone happy
I would really like to see a reformed, more democratic EU with *all* potential Members in it. I mean, just imagine the power, wealth and freedom that could be.
@Lukas Jagodic Russia sees the EU as the "Fourth Reich". To join the EU would be an insult to their ancestors who fought against Germany. At least, that's how most Russians see it
@Lukas Jagodic well, that's how most Russians see the EU, fair or not. As Germany is the dominant economy in the EU/ Europe, it is easy to understand Russia's anti-European sentiment
Regarding the referendum here in Iceland... Think about like us wanting to see the content of a contract before we decide to sign or scrap it. In all likelyhood we would scrap it but we like to keep our mind open for other options. Hence why we want to go through the process to learn what we could gain by joining. But don't mistake it as us truly wanting to join. In the current climate in the EU, *Especially* after the organisation laughable silence regarding the Catalonia situation, the push for EU "army" etc etc, Icelanders in general see *very little* positive abut joining the EU as it is currently being run. The Icelandic public does *not* want to join the EU. Let me just reinstate that. If the EU was being run as how it was originally intended we might actually genuinely consider the idea of joining. But as it is now, you are likelier to see us re-established whale hunting as a major industry than see us joining the EU.
What's wrong with an EU army? Never got this issue - depend less on the wacky American foreign policy and strengthen against substantial Russian threats. Keep the NATO in, in case we would need it or as a tool to assert geopolitical power. It's not that scary to cooperate with friendly states and it guarantees stronger relations between EU members.
Ruben Wahab I criticise giving central military control to a group of people that consider threatening other countries that are already *in* the EU economic restrictions and punishments for merely not agreeing and going with the fairly controversial decision of open borders policy for every country in the EU towards non-EU economic immigrants. Whatever you may think about that policy about the borders the countries should have the right to refuse to follow such actions if they so choose to without worrying about being punished. Especially if agreeing appears to lead to economic decline and internal clashing within said countries. And *especially* when such a policy is being forcibly enforced by a single government (Germany) rather than something the EU members universally agreed on was the best action to ensure economic and citizen well being&growth in the EU countries. EU was intended to be an economic front for Europe to be able to compete more effectively with other economic giants in the world such as the US, China and Russia (and India nowadays). It was never intended to have access to central military power that had the (potential) legal right to enforce mandatory military service in the cases of all out wars. You must remember that we here in Iceland are pragmatic pacifists. We understand the reason most countries need an upstanding army but detest the thought of having one on our own. Why? There are a lot of reasons, one of them being that during conflicts we prefer to remain neutral and focus our aid towards the civilians caught up in the clashes rather than picking sides. Another is, paradoxically enough, because it makes us nigh untouchable by hostile forces. How so? Well, considering that invasion or attack on us would be effectively the equivalent of, and I quote, "Geopolitical suicide", "screwing the pooch" and so on I do feel that our lack of military actually plays in our favour. I mean, who wants the universal stigma of having attacked what is generally agreed to be the most(/one of the most) peaceful, neutral countries in the world? That is unarmed on top of all that?! If you mind getting painted as the actual villain in the hypothetical war by both your citizens and most of the world you wouldn't really do that. Especially now in our society that is always connected. Being in the EU (if the push for centralised military gets through the EU congress) where we would be forced to agree to the terms of mandatory service (doesn't even need to be mandatory) if war happened would only damage or destroy any social, political and economic protection we have built up the past 80 years. Why would we risk everything we stand for; Our personal morals and ethics, our social and economic protection and good will from different nations for the sake of an organisation that can offer so little back comparatively? NATO we just about tolerate (keep in mind that most civilians here were against joining NATO when the agreement was signed) due to us having the agreement that our part of the funds and manpower goes to the peacekeeping and medical aid part of the organisation. I hope I somewhat got it across why most of us wouldn't even consider joining the EU if the centralised military idea got/gets through.
I understand the position you are arguing from entirely. Iceland has always preferred to keep its head down during major geopolitical conflicts and rightly so. It is an island, far removed from the major warmongers of WWI and WWII. We were not so lucky. You see, in WWI, the Netherlands declared neutrality. After all, Germany was (and still is) our major economic partner in an awful lot of industries.We had begotten that neutrality by our gravitas, by being a trade nation with only its mind on making profits. We did some horrible things in our colonies, but we had no interest in matters like territorial gain and geopolitical influence. We tended to mind our own business and it kinda really worked out well. When the industrialised nations' second arms struggle seemed unavoidable, the Germans conceeded that our neutrality would stand once more. Our military on the European continent wasn't that great and we certainly could match our neighbour's war machine. We trusted on the world to be absolutely outraged if our neutrality was ever violated. Well, were they outraged. It did little for us, though. My country has retained its trading spirit, and despite its small size simply by being an extremely efficient economy with strong working ethos (and a government taking good care of us) we are the 18th largest economy on Earth. We might be paying more into the EU than we would get back out of it, strictly speaking, but many of the privileges I and many other students here enjoy wouldn't have been possible without European cooperation and the Union that followed. Sound policy and hard work got us, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Austria and France ahead of the governments we have been trying to rescue. Why did we have to rescue most of those countries? Because they lied. They lied about the well-being of their economies, they lied about how properly their tax was collected, and they lied about how transparent their governance was. Why did they lie? Because the EU favoured their nations with a large trading bloc, with the right of free movement, for the opportunity for their students to study abroad more easily. That worked really well for them. Until shit hit the fan in America, and the system came crashing down. We took one for the team and told them how to hold their heads above water level, and somehow, this is seen as economic imperialism. Nowhere have they been forced into a union with us. They've creeped in on shaky grounds, and they knew it. Giving out free cash to your citizens works as long as you can afford it, but that doesn't work anymore. Instead, some choose to whip up populist sentiment. It even makes them look innocent and oh so abused by evil richer countries who are out for their caps. ;_;
8:20 I beg to differ. I’ve heard lots of Belarussians say that Lukasheko is like a worm trying to squirm between two superpowers. It would like to join the EU, but at the same time leaving it’s past behind could cause some problems...
There will be no negative consequences for Montenegro using the euro without authorization. The ECB has to say that you can't do it because they don't want random countries to start using it if they have high inflation and stuff but they are not doing anything against countries that already use it. In fact the EU and the ECB unofficially helped Montenegro adopt the euro by providing them hundreds of millions of euro coins and banknotes when they switched over.
I do, it's lately been going forward I thought. One can find some new articles about it as well now. Though obviously for now the scope is limited, as it would be rather complicated to just join all the disparate military togeher. As well as obviously everyone would want to test the waters a bit the EU has never been one to rush in to things quickly.
The feeling you are talking about at around 20:59 is very well known in the Balkans. It's a mastery of sorts and very nicely explains the whole region. Anyway it can be translated as spite, malice or most aptly defiance. We call it inat.
This is a bright young man who can talk really fast while providing clear, concise information. Being a typical Southern American, I could speak twice as long and present half as much information.
@@thecripsonone it will, as countries that prosper are more likly to get a stable democratic system. and you can't imagine how much russia would prosper from that. as after they joined the eu, all big european companies will go on the russian market and also start there production.
In theory, all countries in (or near the edge of) Europe could join one day. Even Russia or Turkey could be future members, although that's not going to happen any time soon. An implosion of the EU is an alternative scenario, although it's more likely that the countries of Europe would prefer to keep on working together in some kind of union or alliance...
Yes, if the US leaves, NATO would have to shrink... which is fine. This being said, I'd happily replace the US with Russia. Would still be smaller, but who would care? Russia in the EU won't happen in our lifetime
I did not really think about it, just remembered the fact that in Georgia there are about five million people Now I checked and the number includes South Ossetia and Abkhazia
EU will not accept Turkey due it is only country in the world to reconize Northen Cyprus but Cyprus is an EU member so if Turkey unreconizes Northern Cyprus then probably.
What you know stupit?TURKEY HAS'T NEED EUROPA. WE'RE A RICHE AND OUR COUNTRY'S PARADISE. WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR COUNTRY. YEARLY COMING 60 BILLION TOURIST IN TURKEY. WHAT YOU HAVE? FEW YEARS LATER YOU'LL BE HUNGARY.
@David Kato stupit, Islan is not pagan. Muslim has just one God. NAME'İS ALLAH. But you have 3 God. Father, son and Maria. God's not father. Jesus's not son and Maria is just Mother and Jesus. Finally, you are a pagan.
You know, back in the day, in Serbia, when I was in elementary school, we had a job to draw the border of the country out of head, I think in Geography class. In that time, both, Kosovo and Montenegro were part of the country. Now, can you imagine in the future kids in EU doing the same job, drawing the map of EU? They will curse Switzerland!
My favorite way to learn... By finding out "why not" I can easily figure out "why". What I mean is...I nearly clicked off to learn more about EU but only made it this far to Comments. Lol. So...back to the video. Lol
I love how this guy brings new stuff upon the table. Hahaha 😂. He feels so assured when speaking and doesn’t care about potential haters hahaha. That’s really cool and very amusing.
@@content1006 only 55% of Russians live in the European part (yes, most of them, but not 90). Moreover, the third largest city in Russia is located in Siberia and I'm just from there🙈
@@tail2107 What percent of Russian population is in Europe? 77% Although most of Russia's landmass is considered part of Asia, most of the Russian population lives in the European part of the country. In fact, about 77% of Russia's approximately 146 million people live in the territory that is considered part of Europe. Mar 26, 2021 Search it on google
So what? The majority of European territory was already in Asia and Africa. Russia simply retained its colonies while everyone else was too weak to keep theirs.
the economical criteria are pretty tough especially for entering the common currency. some countries like Greece made false documents and stuff to enter Euroland
The EU also let them in knowing that they were problematic. I hope the ones responsible have learned that logic and economy is more important than symbolism. Sorry Greece.
I didn't say they are european. I said they are european enough, which means they are close enough to beeing european to join the EU in my opionion. Canada is already a member of the European Space Agency and Australia joined the Eurovision Song Contest recently. Doesn't seem like they're becoming less european.
Interesting video. I think one country that might be worthy of a mention is Greenland. Even though they left they EU, they are still part of Denmark, and they could potentially rejoin in the future.
@@xijinping880 I know this i why i want to give more power ti the EU parliament to penalise members that are not democratic, so they are pushed to became one. After the end of Putin legacy i would like to finally put an end to the cold war between Europe and Russia.
Oh, and I think you did a huge mistake in your video. You called a country M*cedonia even though it's called Fyrom. Might wanna fix that. /sarcasm(but not really). You also mentioned in an older video of yours, that everyone who isn't from that country should called something else.
Finland should leave the EU, it is throttling the country and controlling the country. Vaka vanha Väinämöinen itse tuon sanoiksi virkki: "Näistäpä toki tulisi kalanluinen kanteloinen, kun oisi osoajata, soiton luisen laatijata." Kun ei toista tullutkana, ei ollut osoajata, soiton luisen laatijata, vaka vanha Väinämöinen itse loihe laatijaksi, tekijäksi teentelihe.
@@Yamezzzz lmao first of all if you're a basing your opinion on some old poetry that doesn't even have nothing to do with it... well, yeah, that just make you look like an idiot
Predator Pinsir | Kosovo has recognition because it's occupied by the US. Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia do not have recognition because they're occupied by Russia.
Живко Яннкулоски - I see. I imagine however that no one wants to admit that. What do the US and Russia say about why they support the one and not the other?
Predator Pinsir | Basically, the US says it supports Kosovo because the Albanian majority in the region was mistreated by Serbia. And it is true, though. After Yugoslavia fell apart, Kosovo was a ticking bomb, since they declared sovereignty and Serbia, just sent the army to do the police work and doing something wrong would result in the army acting brutal in some cases. Until the Kosovo war when America and NATO invaded Serbia and occupied Kosovo, which technically still remained part of Serbia until 2008, when it declared independence, but in reality, Kosovo was not controlled by Serbia and was more or less independent since the American invasion in 1999. Russia uses the same excuse in multiple cases (Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, and unoficially for the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics), and it is also true. Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence right after the Soviet Union fell, and their respective countries just declared full out war on the breakaway regions, which resulted in mistreating the majority in those regions, but like seriosly. Many people died in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But the difference between these regions occupied by different powers is that all the Russian occupied territories have held an independence referendum on which the result was overwhelmingly yes, while the NATO occupied Kosovo was invaded and occupied because the americans simply favor the albanians over the serbs. Serbia has sworn to russian allegiance since Russia went out of it's way to protect Serbia from Austria-Hungary in WW1, and America hates everyone who is allied or close to Russia, including it's own NATO members (Turkey for example). Russian occupied territories will eventually get recognition, but it will be a lenghty process.
the problem with the EU growing is that for legislation to get through the EU parliament will take so much longer and then it would before due to there being more countries having to agree on it.
Northern Ranger01 I see a lot of people worry about this but the eu has set a maximum number of possible meps to a number they can handle. So this isn't a problem.
no the EU only has the limit of the amount of countries that are actually in the Europe.when laws passed in the EU all members have to agree on the Bill which is a problem if the bill goes against the political belief of one member
Do they have an official list of all the countries that are europe ? because I've been looking like crazy for it and haven't found it do they consider armenia european ? kazahkstan? wb russia srs if you have it I'd really appreaciate you sharing but if not its k fam
I believe Turkey has to short out the Conflict regarding North Cyprus. As the Republic of Cyprus and Greek are both EU members, they will probably veto Turkey out of joining the EU
Scotland leaving Britain would be idiotic economically but at the same time Scots are probably the most European inhabitants of the island so they will probably do it anyways. I almost want to see them go through with it just because I really dislike the Brexiteers.
Scotland will not break from the UK it will not happen, culturally I can see them becoming more and more independent but to break from the union would be so foolish, it's a bunch of media hype stirred up by the divise SNP looking for cheap votes, it is so foolish
Not likely at all. We voted and we voted to stay in the UK and thats how its going to be for several lifetimes. We have no hard group trying for independence and the vote was a once in a lifetime vote. Scotland is not joining the EU! We are British!
It is said that Spain would veto an independent Scotland joining the EU. Not that they have anything against Scotland or think they wouldn't be fit EU members, but because it would send a message to the seperatist movement in Catalonia that they would be able to join themselves if they broke away from Spain.
I wonder how Euro Coins will look like if Armenia, Georgia or Azerbaijan joins. Btw. I really hope that the UK will remain or at least rejoin the EU at some point. The thing we really don't need right now is a weakening or splitting of the EU.
Maybe I am naive, but I don't understand all this hatred in this comment section. I know that each of those hateful people loves their country, which is fine, but no reason to hate other countries or people from other countries. And yes, I do understand that in the past one ruler of one country might have done bad stuff against your country, but firstly, that doesn't mean that every person from that country agrees with what they did and secondly attacking someone because they attacked you is, though understandable, very childish.
As much as making ties between countries is great, the EU is not the best way of doing it. The EU is full of bureaucrats instead of elected officials. All people of member states should get votes on things that effect the entirety of Europe.
Fortunately the EU parliament seems to be gaining increasing responsibility as the years pass. So the electoral control might happen eventually as expected. Well technically it already is, but in a more indirect way. This is because so far I know most laws actually come from the Council of Ministers, which are basically kind of a European Senate. Where the separate nations ministers take up the positions, thus indirectly elected people. Not ideal, but it's something.
I agree that we need to have more elected positions national governments will have to give up their power to appoint people and let the voters decide who represents them in the european council or in the commission but this is not a reason to demand the dissolution of our union the American senate used to be appointed too and they managed to reform that we managed to give the european parliament more and more power over the years and we need to keep pushing the envelop
"instead of elected officials" what do you mean? The parliament is elected directly by the people. The commission and the court are elected by the national governments.... Which are elected by the people.
Nerds United I tend to agree that direct democracy is better than indirect democracy more positions should be elections based instead of appointed obviously not every position can be per election but commisio president should be electable imo.
You technically missed out on Israel. It is by far a more likely candidate than some of the ones you mentioned. It is "culturally isolated" from most of its neighbors and is often included in European stuff, like CERN or the Eurovision Song Contest. I think both sides even mentioned interest in Israel joining.
I doubt there is any real limits on how far the EU could expend and I highly doubt countries have to be European to join, I think they just use that for now because they have enough European countries to chew on. I suspect the EU prefers to expend with connected EU countries that are boarded with each other, I also suspect that as the eastern members that have already joined the EU become more modern and wealthy overtime, others further east will want in, more so because they will see what it's done to the countries that joined and will want some of that. In the case of the EU, they don't want to rush this and there is no reason to rush it, but yeah, I suspect a lot more countries will join over the next 50 years, so much so that the EU will be willing to open up to countries that are not European.
@Soda King It is and it's not, they were never truly in the EU in the sense that they had so many op-outs that the likes of Norway was more integrated lol, besides, there is a chance the EU will get a lot out of the UK once all the bluster from the UK dries up, the EU might not lose much at all and actually might even gain from this. As it happens, support is already growing in the UK to rejoin the EU, then there is Scotland and Northern Ireland, Brexit isn't over by a long shot for the UK because now they have to try and make it work and try to keep the UK union from falling apart which won't be easy with this current government. As for the EU, they have no reason not to set up operation crave up after Brexit as in, allowing the likes of Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales to join, they might even sweeten the deal for them, this could all be a massive mistake for the UK by trying to force Brexit through no matter what and this is why the real hard work begins after Brexit.
@@wolfgangshrenk6032 Apperantly UA-cam had a problem with my comment but the point is that what you are saying is unacceptable and people are far to forgiving to all kinds of radicals. Yourself as a member of the extremist right obviously included.
If Russia were to join the EU
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Amazing
Super Kooper
That’s actually insane
1984 wasnt an instruction manual ffs
It would piss off the US so much hahaha
@Sirius Stark Al Ghul please no i dont want norway to join norways already a part of nato i dont want the politics getting anymore sticky
@michi hofer Explain why?
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EU: We recognise Kosovo as a country
Spain: *Stares nervously while eating paella*
I never understood why Spain cares so much about the EU recognizing small regions independancy like, as long as Spain itself remain in the EU, an independant catalonia would be shut off of the EU, one country can veto entry to new members. So why do they care. Catalonia needs the EU and if they take independance theyll never get it. And no amount of crying to other EU members or other EU official could change that
@@heatea5255Because any incentive is enough to spark protests again and again. And that is bad for bussines, for the economy and for the country's image in general. So, yeah... maybe, eventually, they will, with international pressure.
@Ruseau you could have edited your comment
@@JKM2468 what the fuck no that's not how it works Spain is in the EU not Catalonia
@@heatea5255 He literally what he just said, do you even read?
I like how the thumbnail implies that it's likelier that russia will join the EU than it is that Switzerland will join 😂
Norway, too haha
@@ibx2cat Norway, Switzerland and Island are Schengen countries, a lot of contract connect them with the EU,
Russia and GB are not Schengen countries, so probably GB and Russia will create a "new Soviet Union".
Norway and Switzerland are de facto members of the EU.
@@migrationsforschermitbreit6744 "and island" ah yes, the pristine country of Island, iceland? whats iceland?
@@scooperdooper4097 Iceland is called Ísland or Island in most languages.
@@lebens3585 so? We're speaking English here, use the English name
Russia's plan:
-Join EU
-Become the most important EU member
-Transform the EU in the Soviet Union
-Make Stalin proud
@Sirius Stark Al Ghul
Anything is more democratic than soviet union. :)
@@uniquenpc8128
"Best Korea" lmfao
Yea you got me there.
@michi hofer
Yes
How it will happen
-join eu
-gets second most important country in eu
- Germany and France laugh at Russia
- leaves EU
- try to make Germany dependend on them
- fails
- cries in pain
-make another battle of moscow and Stalingrad 😥
"If you're a European citizen, like me"
Not for long buddy...
The UK is geographically in Europe you dunce.
@@Alto53But it's a US vassal politically
@@MeidoInHebun in what way is the US in control of UK politics?
Liam since like fucking world war two
Unë even if u meant eu we still haven’t even left yet
Just a note: EU doesn't recognize Kosovo as a country, it's up to each member to decide so
Yes but that only is bcs of the disputes in Romania and spain
@@MinenArbeiterLP Spain, Slovakia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania
@@ImStevan yep But pretty sure thats gonna change soon
@@MinenArbeiterLP doubt it, they are very firm in their attitudes. If anything, Czechian president wanted to withdraw recognition
@@ImStevan i think you are serb right?
Funny how 2 weeks after you made this vid, Greece and Macedonia made a deal after all. Macedonia agreed to change its name to North Macedonia and with that the most ridiculous political conflict in European history finally came to a close.
A dumber conflict between again macedonia and bulgaria tho
Europe needs to stay united and integrated.
The EU is not perfect but it definitely should be fixed not thrown away. It needs reform and revolution.
Wanting its destruction is counterproductive and very small minded and short sighted.
A nationalist EU?
@PUTEN VOR they put themselves in that situation then like the irresponsible parents of the EU they are they just want to bail when they don't get exactly what they want. I guess if it is what there people want they should but other wise they are being jerks.
Yes this, the EU would be a great idea as an economic bloc, BUUUTTT the Euro, immigration policies and the overall proven incompetent and overreaching leadership has truly turned the EU into shit. I agree with Viktor Orban that the EU would be a great economic bloc but that super state idea simply isn't gonna work. Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungary proved that much.
Yah good
Lord Varamyr Yugoslavia and AustraiaHungary didn’t prove that as they weren’t democratic, and suppressed other cultures inside their borders. Take India for example. Much much much more divers than Europe, and nobody though it would work as a nations.
The currency didn’t fail. It was only for a while because Greece lied about their debt, and it had nothing to do with the EU
The migrations crisis had nothing do to with the EU. It just made it easier to travel inside it. It should have had something to do with the EU is a sense that the nations should of worked togeather, therefor dispsering immigrants all across the continent instead of a few places in the norther nations. This would have made them have to adapt to our culture.
Video didn't age well lol
As long as turkey is illegally occupying another EU member state, they will never be able to join. They’d probs have to give all of cyprus back to the republic of cyprus before that
Oligu. As a Turkish . It should be but we know what happened between 1963-1974 Greeks Cypriot killed thousand of Turkish Cypriot and react about it also Turkey guarantor country of Cyprus so They have reasons to invade . First of all be respect and make empty
cyprus shouldnt have done genocide against turks and shouldnt have broken the 1960 treaty then we wouldnt had the need to do our legal peace operation do some research before you talk
Kemal vegeta oh I should do my research? Have done plenty on that subject I guess. And not having a bias like you two could help for a better view.
Yes, some cypriots massacred many Turks in the 70s (a little bit already in the 60s) and many fled villages, never said anything else?
Turkish cypriots massacred a fair share of “greeks” themselves. And rid entire villages of people of greek ancestry.
Talking about a genocide from the Cypriots is just wrong and “an insult” to the millions dead from actual genocide.
And calling an occupation that has not been recognised by ANYBODY WORLDWIDE a “legal peace operation”?? With that rhetoric you could well be an US president
Kemal vegeta and my comment wasn’t even about who started what, or anything in the past for that matter. But as of right now, for all of the other EU countries, that land belongs to Cyprus. And that will make it impossible for turkey to join
Turks did it to Greeks for centuries and did it in 1942 with the Varlik Vergisi and 1954 Istanbul pogrom which is what started the problems after 1923 when Ata Turk and Venizelos said they will end all disputes after the Greek genocide and Greece trying to save Greeks in Anatolia from 1919 - 1923. As always Turks start the problems.
how much did the EU grow?
EU Growth: -1
bruh
Well between Brexit and Russia invading Ukraine, this did not age that well.
If Serbia gets in the EU before Kosovo, Kosovo can kiss it's membership goodbye.
Or should I say, it already did that since 4 EU members do not recognize it anyway.
Though that makes one wonder how to resolve the issue though. Leaving territories in eternal limbo tends to come back and become a problem eventually.
Kosovo in the EU? Mate, that Analbanian shithole isn't even in the UN yet.
Живко Яннкулоски Actually 5 EU members don't recognize them.
Serbia joins the eu Kosovo is returned to Serbia . Kosovo is now in the eu. :D
why did you mention the Armenian genocide when talking about Armenia as if it was their fault? They couldn't help being genocided by the Ottomans.
There is no genocide
@@benzema9294 there is no genocide NOW, but there was one at the start of 20th century
@@neyte7313 There is a genocide NOW in China, and China killing millions of Turks There but nobody cares
@@neyte7313 No, there was not an Armenian genocide ^^
Under the current mechanism, many countries could never join because someone always gonna block it. The Baltics and Poland would block Russia. Kosovo would be blocked by anyone who did not recognize it. Turkey always had trouble with Greece.
2cat, you're so wrong about Kazakh-Russian relations.
Kazakhstan is one of the most ardent allies of Russia, and the initiator of the transit agreements and the Eurasian Economic Union.
They are NOT breaking their relations with Russia, in fact, relations are better than ever.
also for what i get its not really a democracy with the head of state winning elections with 97% despite everyone hating him
Ive been to Kazakhstan twice, while it is true that Nazarbayev is a little strong man like from what I can tell he is actually genuinely pretty popular in Kazakhstan.
My Co-worker i from there he and his family moved away form there a decade ago or so. He was named after him (Nursultan) because he was popular at the time of his birth. Now he owns most of the economy and gets richer and richer and gives jobs to his family members while the most people in Kazakhstan getting poorer and poorer. So i doubt that his election victory is without cheating (he may would have won without cheating but he cheated anyway so he could have 98% of the votes).
I'm not endorsing the man; I think he is pretty authoritarian and the fact he is everywhere you go in Kazakhstan, particularly Astana feels pretty dystopian. He is still a pretty widely popular figure amongst most Kazakh's though.
but not 98% popular ;P not even Jesus would get 98% of the votes if there would be election in Vatican city. No one ever wins with such a high percentage since its impossible to make everyone happy
I would really like to see a reformed, more democratic EU with *all* potential Members in it. I mean, just imagine the power, wealth and freedom that could be.
Will happen but before that we get zones and that alone will take sooo much time.
EU would implode
"must be a democracy"
Denmark: *Nervous sweating*
?
Denmark is social democratic we have a prime minister
Finland too :D
@@aadamnotadenn8911 no nordic nations are not independed.. we are slave puppet states for usa and germany etc
@@cum3448 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Fuster Cluck is my new favourite saying :)
Fuck eu
It's called a spoonerism. Hot Poles is another.
As someone who has lived in Russia for the past year and discussed this with many people - Russia will NEVER join the EU.
@Lukas Jagodic Russia sees the EU as the "Fourth Reich". To join the EU would be an insult to their ancestors who fought against Germany. At least, that's how most Russians see it
@Lukas Jagodic well, that's how most Russians see the EU, fair or not. As Germany is the dominant economy in the EU/ Europe, it is easy to understand Russia's anti-European sentiment
russia can't even join the eu, it's not a democracy
@@andymccoy8370 It technically is, people do get to vote.
@@thepittstop They could join in to take over it from the inside.
You should have done live calls to your correspondents from each country and have them announce their douze points for EU membership.
The preview for this video is him zooming in on a bowl of soup with the word "Liechtenstein" on screen
Well, this video is interesting to see rigth now...
Regarding the referendum here in Iceland...
Think about like us wanting to see the content of a contract before we decide to sign or scrap it. In all likelyhood we would scrap it but we like to keep our mind open for other options. Hence why we want to go through the process to learn what we could gain by joining.
But don't mistake it as us truly wanting to join. In the current climate in the EU, *Especially* after the organisation laughable silence regarding the Catalonia situation, the push for EU "army" etc etc, Icelanders in general see *very little* positive abut joining the EU as it is currently being run.
The Icelandic public does *not* want to join the EU. Let me just reinstate that.
If the EU was being run as how it was originally intended we might actually genuinely consider the idea of joining. But as it is now, you are likelier to see us re-established whale hunting as a major industry than see us joining the EU.
What's wrong with an EU army? Never got this issue - depend less on the wacky American foreign policy and strengthen against substantial Russian threats. Keep the NATO in, in case we would need it or as a tool to assert geopolitical power. It's not that scary to cooperate with friendly states and it guarantees stronger relations between EU members.
Ruben Wahab I agree 👍🏼
Ruben Wahab I criticise giving central military control to a group of people that consider threatening other countries that are already *in* the EU economic restrictions and punishments for merely not agreeing and going with the fairly controversial decision of open borders policy for every country in the EU towards non-EU economic immigrants.
Whatever you may think about that policy about the borders the countries should have the right to refuse to follow such actions if they so choose to without worrying about being punished.
Especially if agreeing appears to lead to economic decline and internal clashing within said countries. And *especially* when such a policy is being forcibly enforced by a single government (Germany) rather than something the EU members universally agreed on was the best action to ensure economic and citizen well being&growth in the EU countries.
EU was intended to be an economic front for Europe to be able to compete more effectively with other economic giants in the world such as the US, China and Russia (and India nowadays).
It was never intended to have access to central military power that had the (potential) legal right to enforce mandatory military service in the cases of all out wars.
You must remember that we here in Iceland are pragmatic pacifists. We understand the reason most countries need an upstanding army but detest the thought of having one on our own.
Why? There are a lot of reasons, one of them being that during conflicts we prefer to remain neutral and focus our aid towards the civilians caught up in the clashes rather than picking sides. Another is, paradoxically enough, because it makes us nigh untouchable by hostile forces.
How so? Well, considering that invasion or attack on us would be effectively the equivalent of, and I quote, "Geopolitical suicide", "screwing the pooch" and so on I do feel that our lack of military actually plays in our favour.
I mean, who wants the universal stigma of having attacked what is generally agreed to be the most(/one of the most) peaceful, neutral countries in the world? That is unarmed on top of all that?! If you mind getting painted as the actual villain in the hypothetical war by both your citizens and most of the world you wouldn't really do that. Especially now in our society that is always connected.
Being in the EU (if the push for centralised military gets through the EU congress) where we would be forced to agree to the terms of mandatory service (doesn't even need to be mandatory) if war happened would only damage or destroy any social, political and economic protection we have built up the past 80 years. Why would we risk everything we stand for; Our personal morals and ethics, our social and economic protection and good will from different nations for the sake of an organisation that can offer so little back comparatively?
NATO we just about tolerate (keep in mind that most civilians here were against joining NATO when the agreement was signed) due to us having the agreement that our part of the funds and manpower goes to the peacekeeping and medical aid part of the organisation.
I hope I somewhat got it across why most of us wouldn't even consider joining the EU if the centralised military idea got/gets through.
I understand the position you are arguing from entirely. Iceland has always preferred to keep its head down during major geopolitical conflicts and rightly so. It is an island, far removed from the major warmongers of WWI and WWII. We were not so lucky.
You see, in WWI, the Netherlands declared neutrality. After all, Germany was (and still is) our major economic partner in an awful lot of industries.We had begotten that neutrality by our gravitas, by being a trade nation with only its mind on making profits. We did some horrible things in our colonies, but we had no interest in matters like territorial gain and geopolitical influence. We tended to mind our own business and it kinda really worked out well.
When the industrialised nations' second arms struggle seemed unavoidable, the Germans conceeded that our neutrality would stand once more. Our military on the European continent wasn't that great and we certainly could match our neighbour's war machine. We trusted on the world to be absolutely outraged if our neutrality was ever violated.
Well, were they outraged. It did little for us, though.
My country has retained its trading spirit, and despite its small size simply by being an extremely efficient economy with strong working ethos (and a government taking good care of us) we are the 18th largest economy on Earth. We might be paying more into the EU than we would get back out of it, strictly speaking, but many of the privileges I and many other students here enjoy wouldn't have been possible without European cooperation and the Union that followed.
Sound policy and hard work got us, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Austria and France ahead of the governments we have been trying to rescue. Why did we have to rescue most of those countries? Because they lied. They lied about the well-being of their economies, they lied about how properly their tax was collected, and they lied about how transparent their governance was. Why did they lie? Because the EU favoured their nations with a large trading bloc, with the right of free movement, for the opportunity for their students to study abroad more easily.
That worked really well for them. Until shit hit the fan in America, and the system came crashing down. We took one for the team and told them how to hold their heads above water level, and somehow, this is seen as economic imperialism. Nowhere have they been forced into a union with us. They've creeped in on shaky grounds, and they knew it. Giving out free cash to your citizens works as long as you can afford it, but that doesn't work anymore. Instead, some choose to whip up populist sentiment. It even makes them look innocent and oh so abused by evil richer countries who are out for their caps. ;_;
Ruben Wahab Empowering the racist regime of the EU should be scary. Last I checked, the officials aren’t elected.
One of the last things I'd ever imagine to happen is this thumbnail.
8:20 I beg to differ. I’ve heard lots of Belarussians say that Lukasheko is like a worm trying to squirm between two superpowers. It would like to join the EU, but at the same time leaving it’s past behind could cause some problems...
Kosovo is Burmese
Kosovo is serbia
Kosovo is north korea
Kosovo is Cherokee.
Kosovo belong to the nords
Kosovo shall be the newest celtic nation!
“Still having a royal family. A really wacky one actually, that looks like this”. Hahaha
There will be no negative consequences for Montenegro using the euro without authorization.
The ECB has to say that you can't do it because they don't want random countries to start using it if they have high inflation and stuff but they are not doing anything against countries that already use it.
In fact the EU and the ECB unofficially helped Montenegro adopt the euro by providing them hundreds of millions of euro coins and banknotes when they switched over.
Who remembers the plans for the EU army
I do, it's lately been going forward I thought. One can find some new articles about it as well now.
Though obviously for now the scope is limited, as it would be rather complicated to just join all the disparate military togeher. As well as obviously everyone would want to test the waters a bit the EU has never been one to rush in to things quickly.
Đ.G. Red hell yeah !
Salterino Kripperino Complete Idiots
The german and france army acting like one army
The Germans don't have enough equipment in storage
these long ones really hit the spot
oh no what did I say
Tim Holmes That’s what she said ( sorry u were asking for it )
Yup, I watched 30 minutes of it without realising at all
xD
The feeling you are talking about at around 20:59 is very well known in the Balkans. It's a mastery of sorts and very nicely explains the whole region.
Anyway it can be translated as spite, malice or most aptly defiance. We call it inat.
This country has "relations" with EU... That sounds like an explanation of sexual drama
This is a bright young man who can talk really fast while providing clear, concise information. Being a typical Southern American, I could speak twice as long and present half as much information.
Thank you man :)
ibx2cat Keep up the good work! I am very impressed with what you do!
As Russian I wanna see my country in EU
as austrian i want to see that too, this would give the eu in total growth rates from 5% or more for at least 10 years
@@christian9125abd I hope that this action will provide rule of law in Russia as well as enable european institutions to influence domestic policy
@@thecripsonone it will, as countries that prosper are more likly to get a stable democratic system. and you can't imagine how much russia would prosper from that. as after they joined the eu, all big european companies will go on the russian market and also start there production.
That will never happen because putin wants to be president for life
@@xijinping880 I know but a huge amount of russians want to see a rotation in highest cabinets
In theory, all countries in (or near the edge of) Europe could join one day. Even Russia or Turkey could be future members, although that's not going to happen any time soon. An implosion of the EU is an alternative scenario, although it's more likely that the countries of Europe would prefer to keep on working together in some kind of union or alliance...
I wouldn't mind Russia joining, if it meant we could leave NATO without being invaded.
Greetings from Portugal
One SNapp EU is shit
Yes, if the US leaves, NATO would have to shrink... which is fine. This being said, I'd happily replace the US with Russia. Would still be smaller, but who would care?
Russia in the EU won't happen in our lifetime
@ML8593wy Not true.
You can leave without being invaded, by the US atleast.
@ML8593wy The US never bullied any country into joining NATO Portugal joined NATO willingly for protection.
Armenia is also in Russia’s economic union (EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union)).
well this hasn't aged well
Well this aged badly.
Georgia (US) has more than 10 million people
And Georgia (Sakartvelo) has barely 5 million how it is similar population?
Other then that, great video!
I did not really think about it, just remembered the fact that in Georgia there are about five million people
Now I checked and the number includes South Ossetia and Abkhazia
As an engineer I'd say its close its within a factor of 10 ;)
Turkey will never be taken in EU
EU will not accept Turkey due it is only country in the world to reconize Northen Cyprus but Cyprus is an EU member so if Turkey unreconizes Northern Cyprus then probably.
What you know stupit?TURKEY HAS'T NEED EUROPA. WE'RE A RICHE AND OUR COUNTRY'S PARADISE. WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR COUNTRY. YEARLY COMING 60 BILLION TOURIST IN TURKEY. WHAT YOU HAVE? FEW YEARS LATER YOU'LL BE HUNGARY.
@David Kato stupit, Islan is not pagan. Muslim has just one God. NAME'İS ALLAH. But you have 3 God. Father, son and Maria. God's not father. Jesus's not son and Maria is just Mother and Jesus. Finally, you are a pagan.
@@sahanuluc1223 actually they have the holy ghost, the father and jesus not maria
@@tobtobiJesus is not son. Do you want to learn all about Jesus, read The Quran
Belarus is also part of the Union State with Russia.
Hahah in Dutch we call Belarus ‘Wit-Rusland’ wich literally translates to ‘White Russia’
White People. White Russia. No KFC
In German we call it "Weißrussland", which means "White Russia" too
Lukashenko works is mysterious ways
Just like in both Russian and Belarussian
Belarus. Беларус или Бяла Русия (White Russia) is in Bulgarian
30:05 Hitler drew a similar map once.
God how I wish we lived in the Gross Deutschland timeline
You know, back in the day, in Serbia, when I was in elementary school, we had a job to draw the border of the country out of head, I think in Geography class. In that time, both, Kosovo and Montenegro were part of the country.
Now, can you imagine in the future kids in EU doing the same job, drawing the map of EU? They will curse Switzerland!
CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE AN UPDATE TO THIS VIDEO!!!
My favorite way to learn...
By finding out "why not" I can easily figure out "why".
What I mean is...I nearly clicked off to learn more about EU but only made it this far to Comments. Lol.
So...back to the video. Lol
ooh yeah that aged like milk
I love how this guy brings new stuff upon the table. Hahaha 😂. He feels so assured when speaking and doesn’t care about potential haters hahaha. That’s really cool and very amusing.
Macedonia after joining NATO: It is...acceptable
I am here from the future in 2020...
The UK is still in the EU
From January. They are leaving in 31.01.20
From February now they have left
From June, still here
Yeahh I'm sure the eu would totally want russia
>Russian joins EU
>Majority of land of the European Union is actually in Asia
Well yes but like 90% of russian people live in europe not asia
@@content1006 only 55% of Russians live in the European part (yes, most of them, but not 90). Moreover, the third largest city in Russia is located in Siberia and I'm just from there🙈
@@tail2107 What percent of Russian population is in Europe?
77%
Although most of Russia's landmass is considered part of Asia, most of the Russian population lives in the European part of the country. In fact, about 77% of Russia's approximately 146 million people live in the territory that is considered part of Europe.
Mar 26, 2021
Search it on google
So what? The majority of European territory was already in Asia and Africa. Russia simply retained its colonies while everyone else was too weak to keep theirs.
Wow… that thumbnail aged like milk!
The beautiful mountains in 2:50 is in fact Dolomites in Italy
the economical criteria are pretty tough especially for entering the common currency. some countries like Greece made false documents and stuff to enter Euroland
And they suffered the consequences
The EU also let them in knowing that they were problematic. I hope the ones responsible have learned that logic and economy is more important than symbolism. Sorry Greece.
Greeting from Romania! First saw you laying minecraft and now this! Amazing dude!
What about Canada or Australia? I think they are european enough to join the EU as well!
QuiGon
they are not european enough,they are becoming less european with time again
I didn't say they are european. I said they are european enough, which means they are close enough to beeing european to join the EU in my opionion. Canada is already a member of the European Space Agency and Australia joined the Eurovision Song Contest recently. Doesn't seem like they're becoming less european.
QuiGon for the sake of Canada we should never have freedom of movement with them
Why not?
QuiGon
i know, and i said they aren't european enough.
r/agedlikemilk
Interesting video. I think one country that might be worthy of a mention is Greenland. Even though they left they EU, they are still part of Denmark, and they could potentially rejoin in the future.
Well boy do you feel a little foolish right now
I unIronically support the joining of Russia 🇷🇺 in EU 🇪🇺
They’re not a democracy
@@xijinping880
I know this i why i want to give more power ti the EU parliament to penalise members that are not democratic, so they are pushed to became one.
After the end of Putin legacy i would like to finally put an end to the cold war between Europe and Russia.
Great editing on this video.
thanks! It took some time
Oh, and I think you did a huge mistake in your video. You called a country M*cedonia even though it's called Fyrom. Might wanna fix that. /sarcasm(but not really). You also mentioned in an older video of yours, that everyone who isn't from that country should called something else.
"UK probably wont leave" nearly 4 years later
answer: kind of??? we left on paper
42 minutes
Ok...
and finland not mentioned once. Let's not go to the market place I guess?
@@keedt too bad
Finland should leave the EU, it is throttling the country and controlling the country.
Vaka vanha Väinämöinen
itse tuon sanoiksi virkki:
"Näistäpä toki tulisi
kalanluinen kanteloinen,
kun oisi osoajata,
soiton luisen laatijata."
Kun ei toista tullutkana,
ei ollut osoajata,
soiton luisen laatijata,
vaka vanha Väinämöinen
itse loihe laatijaksi,
tekijäksi teentelihe.
@@Yamezzzz lmao first of all if you're a basing your opinion on some old poetry that doesn't even have nothing to do with it... well, yeah, that just make you look like an idiot
veda kateen
Can someone explain to me why Kosovo has so much recognition while the South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria do not?
Predator Pinsir | Kosovo has recognition because it's occupied by the US. Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia do not have recognition because they're occupied by Russia.
Живко Яннкулоски true
Живко Яннкулоски - I see. I imagine however that no one wants to admit that. What do the US and Russia say about why they support the one and not the other?
Predator Pinsir | Basically, the US says it supports Kosovo because the Albanian majority in the region was mistreated by Serbia. And it is true, though. After Yugoslavia fell apart, Kosovo was a ticking bomb, since they declared sovereignty and Serbia, just sent the army to do the police work and doing something wrong would result in the army acting brutal in some cases. Until the Kosovo war when America and NATO invaded Serbia and occupied Kosovo, which technically still remained part of Serbia until 2008, when it declared independence, but in reality, Kosovo was not controlled by Serbia and was more or less independent since the American invasion in 1999.
Russia uses the same excuse in multiple cases (Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, and unoficially for the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics), and it is also true. Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence right after the Soviet Union fell, and their respective countries just declared full out war on the breakaway regions, which resulted in mistreating the majority in those regions, but like seriosly. Many people died in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But the difference between these regions occupied by different powers is that all the Russian occupied territories have held an independence referendum on which the result was overwhelmingly yes, while the NATO occupied Kosovo was invaded and occupied because the americans simply favor the albanians over the serbs. Serbia has sworn to russian allegiance since Russia went out of it's way to protect Serbia from Austria-Hungary in WW1, and America hates everyone who is allied or close to Russia, including it's own NATO members (Turkey for example). Russian occupied territories will eventually get recognition, but it will be a lenghty process.
Живко Яннкулоски - Thanks for the insights
um.... the armenian genocide wasn’t caused by armenians. it was a genocide against armenians by the ottoman goverment.
Macedonia changed their name now , i was looking at your video and checking the map , and Google map says north Macedonia seemed to have caved
Russia will join EU if the capital of the EU will be Moskau
What
the problem with the EU growing is that for legislation to get through the EU parliament will take so much longer and then it would before due to there being more countries having to agree on it.
Northern Ranger01 I see a lot of people worry about this but the eu has set a maximum number of possible meps to a number they can handle. So this isn't a problem.
No. The EU Kommission would have that problem not the Parliament. Edit: OK, that was wrong too.
fg gf we should just have parliament,senate and a president.
no the EU only has the limit of the amount of countries that are actually in the Europe.when laws passed in the EU all members have to agree on the Bill which is a problem if the bill goes against the political belief of one member
Do they have an official list of all the countries that are europe ? because I've been looking like crazy for it and haven't found it do they consider armenia european ? kazahkstan? wb russia srs if you have it I'd really appreaciate you sharing but if not its k fam
How things have changed
Funny how this video was made before UK left the EU lol.
Ugh I am from Bosnia and you're right, we need our government to start doing shit, like ASAP. 25 years passed since the war and we got nowhere.
I believe Turkey has to short out the Conflict regarding North Cyprus. As the Republic of Cyprus and Greek are both EU members, they will probably veto Turkey out of joining the EU
Well, this didn't age well
Mans is just talking about these counties like he’s lived there’s dang, how are you so informed
spoiler : he's not!
Toycat, thank you for you´r existence.
Fuck eu
Mistake by Andorra, Picture is from Southern tirol, Italy!!!!
You forgott the most likely: Scottland
Scotland leaving Britain would be idiotic economically but at the same time Scots are probably the most European inhabitants of the island so they will probably do it anyways. I almost want to see them go through with it just because I really dislike the Brexiteers.
Scotland will not break from the UK it will not happen, culturally I can see them becoming more and more independent but to break from the union would be so foolish, it's a bunch of media hype stirred up by the divise SNP looking for cheap votes, it is so foolish
Not likely at all. We voted and we voted to stay in the UK and thats how its going to be for several lifetimes. We have no hard group trying for independence and the vote was a once in a lifetime vote.
Scotland is not joining the EU! We are British!
NwO 4LiFE prick
It is said that Spain would veto an independent Scotland joining the EU. Not that they have anything against Scotland or think they wouldn't be fit EU members, but because it would send a message to the seperatist movement in Catalonia that they would be able to join themselves if they broke away from Spain.
There is an achievemnt in Hoi4 to own the state Georgia, the country and the South Georgia island(near falklands)
23:49 wow i had no idea that jimmy carr was a royal montenegran
It's cool having malta getting mentioned on like tv shows and UA-cam vids, something us maltese people don't get that much
there is this famous youtuber called anomaly he lifes on malta
Looks like a great future
@Mentalnie niestabilny Europe is already filled wie a lot of cummunes. I don't know how it is handled in other countries but Austria is full of them.
:D Thanks for mentioning Malta! I live there.
I wonder how Euro Coins will look like if Armenia, Georgia or Azerbaijan joins.
Btw. I really hope that the UK will remain or at least rejoin the EU at some point. The thing we really don't need right now is a weakening or splitting of the EU.
Maybe I am naive, but I don't understand all this hatred in this comment section. I know that each of those hateful people loves their country, which is fine, but no reason to hate other countries or people from other countries.
And yes, I do understand that in the past one ruler of one country might have done bad stuff against your country, but firstly, that doesn't mean that every person from that country agrees with what they did and secondly attacking someone because they attacked you is, though understandable, very childish.
As much as making ties between countries is great, the EU is not the best way of doing it. The EU is full of bureaucrats instead of elected officials. All people of member states should get votes on things that effect the entirety of Europe.
Fortunately the EU parliament seems to be gaining increasing responsibility as the years pass. So the electoral control might happen eventually as expected.
Well technically it already is, but in a more indirect way. This is because so far I know most laws actually come from the Council of Ministers, which are basically kind of a European Senate. Where the separate nations ministers take up the positions, thus indirectly elected people. Not ideal, but it's something.
I agree that we need to have more elected positions national governments will have to give up their power to appoint people and let the voters decide who represents them in the european council or in the commission but this is not a reason to demand the dissolution of our union the American senate used to be appointed too and they managed to reform that we managed to give the european parliament more and more power over the years and we need to keep pushing the envelop
"instead of elected officials" what do you mean? The parliament is elected directly by the people. The commission and the court are elected by the national governments.... Which are elected by the people.
Nerds United I tend to agree that direct democracy is better than indirect democracy more positions should be elections based instead of appointed obviously not every position can be per election but commisio president should be electable imo.
completely agree. The EU is not perfect and needs improvement. However, calling it undemocratic ist just straight up wrong
Why the heck did Montenegro use the Deutsche Mark? They don't have really close ties to Germany I'd say, so probably only because it was super stable.
🇷🇺 joins the 🇪🇺
I never even considered the possibility of kazakhstan wow
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Ok now i understand what fyrom mean
You technically missed out on Israel. It is by far a more likely candidate than some of the ones you mentioned. It is "culturally isolated" from most of its neighbors and is often included in European stuff, like CERN or the Eurovision Song Contest. I think both sides even mentioned interest in Israel joining.
17:43 Me: Reeeeeee!?
I want to move to Europe...so badly!!!
My swedish//ukrainian heart yearns for it
Europe is pure crap!
Im from sweden hej sverige äger
Go to Ukraine, don't go to Sweden because is shit
@@kvarnerinfoTV I can already tell who won't get too far in life.
@@Arcaryon Enlighten me with your clairvoyance please.
I doubt there is any real limits on how far the EU could expend and I highly doubt countries have to be European to join, I think they just use that for now because they have enough European countries to chew on.
I suspect the EU prefers to expend with connected EU countries that are boarded with each other, I also suspect that as the eastern members that have already joined the EU become more modern and wealthy overtime, others further east will want in, more so because they will see what it's done to the countries that joined and will want some of that.
In the case of the EU, they don't want to rush this and there is no reason to rush it, but yeah, I suspect a lot more countries will join over the next 50 years, so much so that the EU will be willing to open up to countries that are not European.
@Soda King It is and it's not, they were never truly in the EU in the sense that they had so many op-outs that the likes of Norway was more integrated lol, besides, there is a chance the EU will get a lot out of the UK once all the bluster from the UK dries up, the EU might not lose much at all and actually might even gain from this.
As it happens, support is already growing in the UK to rejoin the EU, then there is Scotland and Northern Ireland, Brexit isn't over by a long shot for the UK because now they have to try and make it work and try to keep the UK union from falling apart which won't be easy with this current government.
As for the EU, they have no reason not to set up operation crave up after Brexit as in, allowing the likes of Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales to join, they might even sweeten the deal for them, this could all be a massive mistake for the UK by trying to force Brexit through no matter what and this is why the real hard work begins after Brexit.
Your not talking about the E U your talking about the New World Order!
The EUropean motherstate is the new worldorder 😂😇😜⭐
And that's the guy from the far right identitarian movment I have been telling you about Adolf. Think he lived up to your legacy?
@@Arcaryon
The Identitarian Movement are too soft.
@@wolfgangshrenk6032 Apperantly UA-cam had a problem with my comment but the point is that what you are saying is unacceptable and people are far to forgiving to all kinds of radicals. Yourself as a member of the extremist right obviously included.
@@Arcaryon
You will make a good Noahide who worships at The Illuminati's feet.
Kingdom united sounds like a fottball club
gonna trigger a lot of russians with that thumbnail