Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways?
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Population EU:
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GDP EU:
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largest Market EU:
bit.ly/1FhL3jv
creation of the European Union:
bit.ly/2cnX6Dg
Franco-German Rivalry:
bit.ly/2nw7uxC
easy travel:
bit.ly/2neE9oT
cheap telecommunications:
bit.ly/1MfZsRZ
bit.ly/2nUsOKj
EU vs. Apple:
bit.ly/2bOwMln
reut.rs/2cafPTv
EU vs. Microsoft:
bit.ly/2nwfYVr
econ.st/2oTo0d1
EU vs. Facebook:
bit.ly/1FUc1iu
bit.ly/2olVXA2
Number of scientists and research output:
bit.ly/2nqHkek
bit.ly/2neJEnD
go.nature.com/1...
bit.ly/2mMfcFc
Election turnouts:
bit.ly/1OK06oG
bit.ly/2oXzQTi
Transparency:
bit.ly/2ouxsPR
bit.ly/2o1SicC
Civil Society Europe:
bit.ly/2oTW4pA
refugee crisis:
bit.ly/2bOZCn4
bit.ly/1Nkj485
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre:
bit.ly/2nA1INa
Why Muslims fail to integrate in christian heritage societies:
amzn.to/2o96mhB
The Failure of Multiculturalism:
fam.ag/1R3ibj1
France and its Muslims:
fam.ag/1jBLUCm
Don't Fear Muslim Immigrants:
fam.ag/2kHbjfb
Immigration and the Challenges of Integration
bit.ly/1RqJot8
News deeply:
bit.ly/2ij4j8n
Economist:
econ.st/2nULVnD
some countries have accepted more refugees:
bit.ly/1A4Ljx8
Discrimination of immigrants:
EU Agency for Fundamental Human Rights:
bit.ly/1Mj4A7F
Princeton:
bit.ly/2o2JGiY
Challenges for the EU
EU development beyond NATO:
bit.ly/2kvZ73G
Third largest military in the world:
bit.ly/2neTaXP
bit.ly/2o2122s
Trade boost:
bit.ly/2nIbnQv
bit.ly/1TNJ5dn
12% higher GDP:
bit.ly/2nwzGAE
Eurostat/ Economy:
bit.ly/23kKY7L
cost of labour:
bit.ly/1PPLTU2
shares in economy for production:
bit.ly/2o2fxn9
shares in economy for tourism:
bit.ly/2nwFav1
shares in economy for fishing:
bit.ly/2ouKFbq
forestry in the EU:
bit.ly/2nIbPOV
Eurozone crisis:
bit.ly/2ouGJY5
Explanation of the debt crisis by The Balance, a financial advice website:
bit.ly/2o7kbjW
Eurocrisis Monitor:
bit.ly/2oUaXYH
Future of Europe:
bit.ly/2mKCPJV
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Can you make a video about only one country in the world?
Wait Europe Led in science before the EU. In fact Europe advanced far faster prior to the EU.
EU military would be a Bureaucratic Hell of Catch 22 proportions. European countries as do not pay their fair share of NATO defense funding. The majority of EU nations military Leader have no true field experience. EU intelligence and security is antiquate.
The only reason the EU has successful is the US supports the EU Militarily and Economicly.
@@jeremysnead9233 soooooo how does the US support the EU when it is made up of multiple countries and looks pretty stable
EDIT:oh yeah yeah
Great video kurgesagt
Explaining everything with chickens makes things easy to understand.
Jovan Janevski because everything is better with chickens
Jovan Janevski THEY ARE DUCKS ARRRGH
*TRIGGERED*
Jovan Janevski Yeah. These birds are not chickens, at least not all of them. Let's argue violently about this. FITE ME M8
I thought they are birds
Did you just assume their species?!
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together :)
if you want to go steady and far, go alone, and be independent
@@flyingminecraft7178 If you want giant debt to china. Go american
if you want to do something well, do it yourself
@@roskavaki Unless you don’t have the available resources to do so.
@@roskavaki but if you can't to it better hand it to someone else
“Since it looks like the UK is leaving the EU.....” big lol from 2019
Indeed
A dozen of potatos and a fat cat smelling them ?????
@@sargonavocado4582 It wasn't me
The will of the people means nothing.
Italy too, yes?
Together we're stronger. Just imagine if the EU ceased to exist: different currencies, non-stop immigration queues, visas and bureaucracy. The EU isn't perfect, of course. But as one of the comments I've read said: when a system with benefits has its flaws, you change it, don't end it. Long live Europa! - a proud Italian/EU citizen
Perfectly said.
The EU would protect/ameliorate the European countries in case of a economic war of sanctions that US has been keen of using against others that might overtake them.
Even Germany cannot sustain an economic sanction/war with the US.
And by the way, if the US sanctioning the EU seems a ridiculous idea, Germany has been threatened with sanctions.
The US had sanctioned EU aluminum and steel.
The EU is the best weapon for European security against any threat.
Germany and EU sending Putin 1 billion per day. They participated with murder of Ukrainian citizens. Blood is on there hands
Germany and EU sending Putin 1 billion per day. They participated with murder of Ukrainian citizens. Blood is on there hands
immigration queues? Sign me up, we don't need immigrans, they can stay wherever the fuck they are. And no, eu is delibetary trying to weaken its own countries.
Havent seen a comment section this calm in a long while.
D. R. Hahaahha
@D. R. Brother! Get the Flamer! The HEAVY Flamer!
@D. R. EXTERMINATUS IT IS THEN!!!
Anyone who supports the EU Caliphate is a confirmed pedophile
-mountainous port, 2019
The fact that they even looked up and animated the correct fighter jets for the different EU countries really shows their passion for quality!
Germany, Hungary sending Putin 1 billion per day. They participated with murder of Ukrainian citizens. Blood is on there hands
"Let's have a civilized, fact based discussion about politics."
...
....Where do you think you are?
Redimus This... is... UA-cam!
civilized? REEEEEEEEEE GET OFFF MY UA-cam!!! REEEE I'M TRIGGERED
I'm going to set four simple questions.
Do you live in a democratic country in the EU?
Did you elect the leaders of the EU or even know who they are?
Do you think it is okay that these people control the size, shape and colour of fruit that can be sold, how to sell packaged goods or countless other miniscule laws which the majority are oblivious of?
Is this democracy?
Redimus A uncivil society based on opinions
Well don´t get your hopes up, it´s youtube after all.....
Who else watching after the UK left?
Me, but I'm not European
Me, and I hope my country will leave as well within a few years!
@@133col unlikely
Haha, VERY likely :). The UK was the first - and certainly not the last.
@@133col czech ?
"If you disagree with this, you're not my enemy, you just have a different opinion. We live in the same boat after all" is a concept less and less people know these days.
"It's complicated" The de facto motto of the EU xD
Well it is tho and very serious
The world is complicated in general. So too are countries. We do our best to muddle our way through, not take a can of petrol to our problems and burn it all down like what Brexiteers advocate.
More like "Its too complicated for the rubes to understand, so we wont let them vote"
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The EU flag is literally ten asterisks.
Worth it. I’ve visited every EU country with only my italian passport.
i can visit every country in the world on my uk passport
@@gorrthebutcher4696 Lies, you ain't getting into North Korea with it.
@@gorrthebutcher4696 but not permanently. Btw, GERMANY, SWEDEN, SPAIN, FINLAND, SWITZERLAND, NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, PORTUGAL, AUSTRIA
, LUXEMBOURG, ITALY, GREECE and IRELAND have a better passport and they can stay indeterminately within the schegen zone.
@@Animatron11 yes i can
@@gorrthebutcher4696 nice bait
I think there are a lot of people who stand to benefit from the EUs disbanding, none of them being the people of European countries.
The US would want the EU to disband to create better and more subservient clients.
Russia would want the EU to disband to assert it's influence over Europe, especially former Soviet nations.
China would want the EU to disband to reduce its global influence and to build state owned facilities in its land to extract tribute from it.
There's nothing a superpower hates more than a group of small nations banding together to form a unified economic and military bloc.
with a nato dress or not, france or germany or any other irrelevant country is a submissive b*** from the the US
I wholeheartedly support the EU.
And I believe we must listen to the skeptics - if anyone can see the EU's potentially catastrophic flaws, it's those who are looking at it without any rose-colored glasses. And these flaws must be fixed as soon as possible.
Dorijan Cirkveni as an Englishman I’m depressed that we left, I think the EU was made with the best of intentions. And sure it may have flaws, but pulling out makes life far more difficult.
@@edwardlawrence4428 Honestly I hope it leads to the break up of the uk. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should just join the eu.
Marzuq Ahmed I couldn’t agree more. I think Northern Ireland will join Ireland and Scotland will leave the UK. I don’t think Wales will though, they’re too small. Even so, none of this will happen with the disgusting government we have now, they’re slaughtering our country.
frederick dinsdale I kind of agree. I feel like getting a good deal (or really any deal) is making the best out of a bad situation, but no deal is making a bad situation oh so much worse.
Lana Joy they’re like England’s drunken fun uncle
I'm proud to be European and feel every EU citizen as a friend. I wish we united more in the future and keep working towards a better future, together.
Sounds a little communist
@@kye4216 sound like a boomer American who grew up in the Cold War
@@samuraidom6542 sounds like a reddit simp
@@kye4216 sounds like you're just baiting and don't actually know what you're talking about, because that's what's actually going on right now
@@kye4216 yoo
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As an european, hearing _or should we end it_ its kinda blow to the heart
Reforms. There will be so many reforms. As long as people like you and me are around, this project will continue to improve itself - slowly but surely,
Yeah, doesn’t make me optimistic. Everyone is in conflict. My perspective from the U.K: people are so heavily divided on left wing and right wing politics, labour voters absolutely despise conservatives and there’s almost an instant hatred in some cases. Then on a bigger scale England is in conflict with Scotland, where there’s constant argument and talks of splitting up. Then of course you have all the conflict in the EU which seems to be falling apart at the seems. Globally we can’t even establish effective policy to literally preserve our species and where we live, it’s like people care more about their opinion and having it their way rather than working together. I just don’t understand.
@@NormanWasHere452 I think the situation is less dire than you think. Sure, there is conflict but in times of change, battles ( rhetorical or otherwise ) are natural. The EU in particular is a fairly young institution that is still moving relatively fast considering how difficult negotiations tend to be. Change is usually very slow when it comes to politics.
In regards to the survival of our species - even if a 4 billion people were to die in rapid succession in the next 100 years, there would still be more than enough for the rest. Technological advancements will also fix a lot of issues and if things get too dire, 2 child policies will prevent an implosion.
Europe is creating a new form of state that in and of itself is revolutionary as a political construct. We use diplomacy instead of firepower or economical threats. That's a less flashy way of doing things but as far as I can see it, we have had 70 years of peace, are wealthier than ever before and still moving forward.
The press has a way of spelling out doom that can make things seem worse than they actually are and it is not bad that they do this ( most of the time ) for fear and anger in the right doses make the people want to work for the things they believe in and get things done.
Giving up when we are pretty much third place in the global superpower ranking would seem like a very unwise decision.
@@Arcaryon I understand your points. In terms of the species thing, it was more about how we're destroying all these ecosystems and not managing the global commons, but you're entirely correct in that it's very difficult to wipe out the entire species (doesn't mean that we're not vulnerable to a poorer standard of living if we don't act with consideration of the future).
In terms of press I'm typically very aware of that, I study geography and economics in school and read about it in my free time so I'd like to think I'm at least slightly above average when it comes to those sorts of things.
As a whole I think things are better now than they used to be but there are also issues like never before. I certainly think we shouldn't give up but it's definitely far from simple.
@@NormanWasHere452 Agreed. Our time will be difficult but if we make the right decisions, we will have a great chance at longlasting success.
Although I myself am very pro-EU, there's an important thing here that bothers me. You're blaming the fact that many people don't trust the EU on a disconnect, lack of transparency and lack of knowledge about how the EU works. By doing this, you avoid all actual criticism on the workings of the EU by implying that if only the EU was better at communicating, no one would have any problems with it.
The way the EU works at this point is very undemocratic. The only part of the EU that is elected is the European parliament, which has a fundamental lack of power and even its election process is the subject of a lot of criticism (unfair seat division by country, inability to vote on parties outside your country). Things like this make me hesitant about a European army and thus giving military power to an institution that has democracy-issues.
Please focus on the actual EU criticism instead of implying it's just a matter of marketing. It's belittling to those with legitimate concerncs.
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Well guess what, you don't need to 'vote' for the other important institutions because you already have. In the Council and in the European Council you find those that you've voted for in national elections. True, we could vote for the members of the Commission, but 1) good luck with that, we're talking about 30k people 2) top-roles in the Commission are decided by the Parliament, so you do (indirectly) have control over them 3) the Commission is main promoter or further European integration, it acts in a supranational way and so it's stupid to let decide of its composition by the peoples who are gonna vote for their national interests and not for the interest of the EU as a whole. If you're referring to other institutions (e.g. ECB), let me remind you that you cannot vote for the Central Bank of your own country either, so why the big deal?
Although I agree with you that the EU has big structural problems, I don't think its 'democratic legitimacy' is one of those. The EP does not lack power at all (at least since the Lisbon Treaty), but you're right in saying that its election process could be improved. Keep in mind, however, that first you have to fix the low turn out problem the EP faces at the elections, so in order to make any changes (improving the functions of the EP), you first have to get people to 'be more interested' in the way the EU works and to be more active in their role of voters.
You are right, I would not suggest the Commission, the Council or the ECB to have seperate elections for them. That was not how I meant my statement. I didn't mean to imply that the EP shouldn't be the only part that is directly elected and I apologize if it appeared that way. I used "only" just to point out how important it is that this institution works well because it's the only elected part. So I don't disagree with most of your first paragraph.
What I meant to say is that the EP being the one part that is directly elected has very little power. And it does. The fact that, as the legislative power, it still doesn't possess any legislative initiative is very strange and in my opinion: wrong. This alone is a massive lack of power for a parliament to have. Then, the fact that the European Council consists of people voted in nationally, means the EP doesn't have the power to hold them responsible or send them home if they lose trust, despite the Council having so much influence on the direction of the EU. This can only be done nationally, meaning one does not have a say in what happens to a Council member from a different country.
Also, I'm not convinced with your order of doing things. You want to fix the low turn out problem the EP faces first and only then make any changes to how it functions. I'd suggest the reverse. Improving the way the EP and its elections function is the way to get more people interested in it.
If military power is given to the EU, I'd want a strong EP (voted for in a way where every European has the same voting power and can vote for the same people) which is able to intervene when the executive power does something with this military power that the EP doesn't like. Right now, this is simply lacking.
Despite that, I'm still very pro-EU, admire all it has achieved and optimistic about its future. I just wish actual criticism was addressed in the video.
This is a very good comment, unlike most of them.
Etrandir, your last post was automatically removed as spam and not visible to most people and I am not able to recover it. Try posting it a second time without naming a certain historic leader of Germany (which is probably what triggered it). You made solid points, so it's a shame otherwise.
Everything is flawed but peace is never a bad thing.
I'm pro fixing the EU, abandoning it would be a disaster.
That would mean Brussels giving away all the power to reform it. And they are too addicted to holding power.
Funny thing is Brussels power is actually very small.
Even if you don't change eu in the slightest it still has measuresble being its that far outweigh its negatives. Even if the only bienfit was the scientific output I would be for a stable eu rather then a bunch of states smashing there heads together
Lukas Bliss did verhofstadt send you
Why do you think you can't fix it?
As a Hungarian, I can say that our government often goes against the EU, but it's really our only way of survival in this world. We're only powerful if we keep together.
hungria is in eu ? xd
@@rosariolomas3630 not really xd. Hungary is the bloodsucker of eu.
@@mazloumkobani2392 Hungary is back in Transylvania!
Yeah, in case of my country our government also often goes against EU (mostly to turn the attention of the citizens from their own failures and blame them on the EU).
@@tomaszzalewski4541 same in Hungary. Our government doesnt take the responsibility for anything
As a British person brexit was a mistake
just why british decide to leave eu?
@@pc-9826 politicians lied to get votes. And then panicked, when the referendum said "fuck eu"
@@pc-9826 idiots are everywhere.... one day even on mars
@@pc-9826 cause they think the're better than everyone else (cause they managed to have a quater of the world 100 years ago)
@@pc-9826because they are idiots. Every constituency regrets it today except one
This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less political and economic integration, some want more of it. Some want to stop immigration, others want better integration instead. Some want an EU army, others want to disband Nato. And most will have a collection of different opinions about all of that. It’s the same for our team, we don’t all share the same vision for Europe and the world.
We tried our best to present different sides and view points, while being fair and as neutral as possible. But obviously we can’t go into too much detail in a video that is only 7 minutes long. We also clearly marked where we are stating our opinion. The sources we used are in the video description.
The last year has taught us that we have to try our best to get everybody back to the table again and stop screaming at each other. We all could have done a better job at this in the past, Kurzgesagt too. Everybody comes from a different place and has different ideas of where the world should go and how to tackle our problems. And as long as we are trying to base our opinions on facts then that is completely fine. In the end we all have to share this planet with each other.
SOURCES:
population EU:
bit.ly/2mMm4Cy
GDP EU:
bit.ly/2ouh1mL
largest Market EU:
bit.ly/1FhL3jv
creation of the European Union:
bit.ly/2cnX6Dg
Franco-German Rivalry:
bit.ly/2nw7uxC
easy travel:
bit.ly/2neE9oT
cheap telecommunications:
bit.ly/1MfZsRZ
bit.ly/2nUsOKj
EU vs. Apple:
bit.ly/2bOwMln
reut.rs/2cafPTv
EU vs. Microsoft:
bit.ly/2nwfYVr
econ.st/2oTo0d1
EU vs. Facebook:
bit.ly/1FUc1iu
bit.ly/2olVXA2
Number of scientists and research output:
bit.ly/2nqHkek
bit.ly/2neJEnD
go.nature.com/1d1HQWc
bit.ly/2mMfcFc
Election turnouts:
bit.ly/1OK06oG
bit.ly/2oXzQTi
Transparency:
bit.ly/2ouxsPR
bit.ly/2o1SicC
Civil Society Europe:
bit.ly/2oTW4pA
refugee crisis:
bit.ly/2bOZCn4
bit.ly/1Nkj485
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre:
bit.ly/2nA1INa
Why Muslims fail to integrate in christian heritage societies:
amzn.to/2o96mhB
The Failure of Multiculturalism:
fam.ag/1R3ibj1
France and its Muslims:
fam.ag/1jBLUCm
Immigration and the Challenges of Integration
bit.ly/1RqJot8
Don't Fear Muslim Immigrants:
fam.ag/2kHbjfb
News deeply:
bit.ly/2ij4j8n
Economist:
econ.st/2nULVnD
some countries have accepted more refugees:
bit.ly/1A4Ljx8
Discrimination of immigrants:
EU Agency for Fundamental Human Rights:
bit.ly/1Mj4A7F
Princeton:
bit.ly/2o2JGiY
Challenges for the EU
EU development beyond NATO:
bit.ly/2kvZ73G
Third largest military in the world:
bit.ly/2neTaXP
bit.ly/2o2122s
Trade boost:
bit.ly/2nIbnQv
bit.ly/1TNJ5dn
12% higher GDP:
bit.ly/2nwzGAE
Eurostat/ Economy:
bit.ly/23kKY7L
cost of labour:
bit.ly/1PPLTU2
shares in economy for production:
bit.ly/2o2fxn9
shares in economy for tourism:
bit.ly/2nwFav1
shares in economy for fishing:
bit.ly/2ouKFbq
forestry in the EU:
bit.ly/2nIbPOV
Eurozone crisis:
bit.ly/2ouGJY5
Explanation of the debt crisis by The Balance, a financial advice website:
bit.ly/2o7kbjW
Eurocrisis Monitor:
bit.ly/2oUaXYH
Future of Europe:
bit.ly/2mKCPJV
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I think the eu should be reformed, but not dissolved.
how?
@@animallover14432 he is not to say the solution but he's opinion no matter if it's achievable or not.
@@animallover14432 direct democracy like in switzerland
I think It should dissolve.
@@magyareuro2173 why tho?
Europe Union may not be the best thing,but it is one of the best solutions we have come to agree so far.
Bruh, Spain stopped a lot of factories and production to join to the EU and to not compete with France if i remember well, Germany continues loaning money, knowing that spanish politicians Will literally steal It xd
I agree, I voted remain here in the UK and even though we have left I wish the EU nothing but success and hope they go from strength to strength
@@mikeykm1993 I don't really know, why did people want the brexit?
@@whitezombie10 because they where stupid and now everyone here has to deal with the consequences
@@neonspark5084 ok
Every time I watch a video about EU and they say about the Greek crisis, I feel... UNIQUE 😂😂 GREETINGS FROM GREECE.
Good luck pal, and I hope you can make things better in Greece.
Greece borrows more money from Germany 😂
@@zidan40o0wow I never thought of that
What I understand, they should have led Greek default, it would have been better in long run. Problem was the big lender Germany didn't want this.
Sadly Euro and EU are flawed systems that are barely hold together. I doubt it can resist US and China.
Greetings from Monaco
I find very useful and necessary cooperation for single European countries.
Congratulations for 80 years without war !
I hope it continues like that.
From Turkiye...
I mean, 80 years without war isn't quite accurate. Just 80 years without war in europe. And even that is no longer true, since.... you know.... Ukraine-Russia happend.
Edit: I just noticed that even then it's not true. War within Europe happend in that 80 year span too so...
@@palaius Well, no major european war is what they meant. And neither Russia nor Ukraine are in the EU so it still was successful in that regard.
@randomdude4207 But Europe and the EU are some very different things.
Also, even then, EU members were involved in wars during those 80 years. Falklands (Britain) and Kosovo (pretty much everyone in NATO).
"Let's have a fact based discussion about our future" and here weee go
faker nice nobody replied soo...
You did
It's youtube it's never gonna happen.
Am I the only one that noticed you are probably quoting "Death Battle?"
you tried
4:39 i find it highly offensive that the Danish gun is bigger than the Swedish one
Haha
I see nothing wrong with this
Kristian nah they’re not even in the fucking video
@Kristian you do realise i made it as a joke?
Kristian even then Denmark still got a bigger gun
You can watch a French version of this video here: ua-cam.com/video/GlZ9wirVXoI/v-deo.html&spfreload=5 made by @notabenemovies
You should probably pin this comment so people know where to find the french version. just sayin.
SIR SMOKETHELOT. What are you commenting?
Gibt's keine deutsche Version ? Danke fürs Video
Vielleicht in ein paar Monaten.
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell Ad Albanian in the videos plz milions of Albanians live in europe and the balkans
End it please !
Video content aside, these animations are so beautiful and brilliant (as always)!
Agreed
Same, I absolutely love it!
athenaatwar475 what's wrong with them looking childish? It makes it easier for most people to understand fully (including myself) in my opinion.
its a style and i love it
EU: cease it's existence
European nations: 🔥⚔️💀👹🦴🦷
What union maintein in peace koreas?
Europe union really helps Slovakia . Without them , we will be still driving on mud roads
You still driving on the mud roads....
@@DAVIDsubert1995 we have asphalt almost everywhere
@@rattler_boss1101 I drove to Trebišov- iňačovce for 3 years a lot of roads are in a catastrophic condition (Rimavská sobota, Bátka, Rožňava etc) , the shock absorbers of my car say: Au au au for what ?.
@@DAVIDsubert1995 yes . But they are not from mud
@@DAVIDsubert1995 i see . But it's not important road to have asphalt on it . Just ordinary rural road
4:37
Who else tried to find their own flag, and smiled when saw it?
Me
what?
*cries in brexit*
@@shiloh1852 lmao
i tried to find my flag but I'm american so now i'm depressed. not depressed i couldn't find my flag; depressed I'm american.
*Article 13 blocks your path*
Snoozin' Ghost if you're going to say things like that you should at least spell it correctly.
Michael Petersen
Nope. It's the EU's.
Michael Petersen yeah let’s do another brexit vote and tell everyone about article 13 and see the amount of people who want leave
Article 13 got refused
And UA-cam comments forum block your brain
Just wanted to say that this topic is near to impossible to cover, especially in a 7 minute video, but you guys have done a great job at it. :)
The negativity in the comment section is real though. Maybe they should have gone into more detail.
Maybe not dishonest, but I think it's basically impossible to make a political video without being a bias.
Laughing Tree How were they dishonest? List some examples.
Jeroen Bollen Lies by omission. They didn't address the huge problems of sovereignity of states and the undemocratic nature of EU Commission, which is the only actor in the EU able to propose new laws but what is not elected by the Demos of Europe.
Also stating that EU is nothing but good for the economy while omitting the fact that overbearing regulations actually pulls down small-time entreprenuers who have to bend to the regulations just like the big multinationals.
It's the lack of democracy within the European Union that makes it impossible to support for me.
I love the idea of freedom of movement,trade and decent central standards for workers rights/safety etc but the system under which the EU operates is intrinsically flawed, and there seems to be no intention to improve this.
I remember reading Gorbachovs autobiography and his explanation of how the soviet political system worked to deny the general public any say in the policies it pursued, and the EU is organised pretty much exactly like the old USSR (sounds a little melodramatic, but read Gorbachov, he explains it a lot better than i ever could).
I really hoped Britain threatening to leave would lead to some sort of reform of the parliament and how the powers are distributed and regulated, but unfortunately not, and i just can't see the EU ever reforming without some total collapse that forces them to.
As someone who is living outside of Europe.I think the EU is a beautiful concept.Holding this much countries together is such an amazing thing. I think one of the best abilities of EU is its ability to tackle climate change as it is easy to do so a collective group of different people brought together than small individual countries.
Hint: Don't ruin your day by scrolling further down.
you need more upvotes.
John yeah thanks
I think you just saved me some minutes of infuriating troll fueling.
John Thank you.
Okay, thank you.
It's crazy that he was talking about turbulent times in 2017 not knowing that just 3 years later we'd have even crazier times
Honestly, 2017 when this was released was just a year after the Brexit vote, and the hight of the catastrophically handled migrant crisis was still on everyone’s fresh memory, and different exiteers were popping up everywhere, than the times in Europe were turbulent indeed. Now, despite Covid, exiteering isn’t that much of a popular thing anymore, with even Le Pen abandoning the Frexit idea and Salvini currently taking part in a strongly pro-European government. I think the fact, that even though the Comission completly screwed up the vaccine distribution, only two countries so far have purchased EU unapproved vaccines (and Slovakia’s government has almost fallen apart because of it and they never even properly used the vaccine), is absolutely incredible and would be unthinkable not that long ago. So its not so grim in this direction.
I think 2020 was actually proof of why EU is good and useful.
And now war between Russia and the UK is closer than we think, truly unique times
I mean it's not crazy, it hadn't happened yet. Shit was turbulent back then, and it got worse. So he was truthfully just commenting on how it was then, it's not any kind of prediction
@@endered3498 Then why a lot of anti-EU protests erupted since 2020 ? Even last week, there were a lot of protests across several European capital cities, some people even went to Brussels to destroy the headquarters of EU
Ok youtube's algorithm timing is still legit
Europe: we are allowing to enter refugees into EU
Hungary: Hold my beer
Oof i am hungarian
Me too
these are NOT refuges, thease are economic immigrants from africa and middle east
@@grodt88 waaat?
@@OUAAAAAAAA what? what? refugees by law are people who run away from war in their country to closest country without war. If they pass that country and travel to another they are immigrants by law
I believe the EU is a great thing
However I strongly believe that it needs reform.
Wow thank i never got so many likes thanks 😊
Agreed it's a good concept however there are some problems like the fact that it can bypass democratically elected officials
I agree. Just because something is flawed doesn't mean we should get rid of it entirely. It's like cutting your whole arm off to get rid of a cut.
Jarod Farrant Well beliving will never get you far, maybe get some hard facts that can prove to people that eu is a good thing. The idea of european countries being a union will never work, period.
Matthew Augart-Peponis there are good reasons for that tho. (☁️Remembers Nazi Germany☁️)
yoink person Shut up you close-minded, individualist a-hole.
The problem is mainly integration , many refugees keep their religion ( which is fine ) and become radical about their religion ( look at France ) . The other problem is that if they keep their ideals and standards , the civilisation becomes flooded with new values and norms which makes a civilisation unstable because everyone is different from eachother and won’t come to compromise . This is the Anomy theory , because the civilisation grows to fast , people become disconnected from eachother leading to a hard time for democracy to work
What you say isn't that stupid.
Article 13 be like: Yes it’s absolutely necessary
Everyone Else: ???
lol 69 likes
Your production was correct
Leg go
While I understand that some people disagree with the copyright directive, the false information being spread about articles 11 and 13 (current articles 15 and 17) is staggering.
A short summary of the most prevalenr incorrect claims that I have seen is that no linking will be allowed (linking to news articles will be allowed, though not together with long extracts), that "filters" will hurt smaller businesses or start-ups (article 13 (now 17) applies to larger commercial sites that have been running for more than three years) that it will murder internet-culture (memes and GIFs are excluded), and that strong lobbying has not been carried out on both sides.
Some of these have changed during the course of the legislative process and some have allways remained the same. Everyone are still free to disagree with the implementation of these rules, but it should be based on facts and not on inflammatory rethoric.
Scramelramel found the European trying to cover up his shitty laws
This video had more content than the campaigns for the UK brexit referendum
It's got a very diluted points for such a complicated issue. Okay in a nut-shell but quite biased.
That was a common complaint, remain was entirely based around fear mongering, lies and nothing to do with the lives of ordinary people brexit was fear mongering, lies and nothing to do with ordinary people. It just meant people went with what they originally thought.
....even as a German I have to agree - my only critisism would be the description of the € countries and not mentionening the strenghs for future - if all Euro countries agree there shall be a common fund financed by all - making it impossible for hedgefunds to speculate against Greece, or Italy, or Spain or whoever within the EU - just because of the sheer power of some 300 million behind that. Hoping Macron is succesful here and Merkel will give in.
No Uk had plenty of reasons, just the government saying they do not want to do all these thing that we voted to leave for (Ill list them if you want to(Even though it is a wast of time ) )
So did the UK really leave the EU? Because in Plague Inc. there are achievements on "Brexit"
Poland=part of EU,
EU robot in space,
Therefore,
POLAN CAN INTO SPACE!1!1!
lol
MOC POLSKI!!!
I think that Poland helped with space robots or something
KURVA POLAND CAN INTO SPACE GALLILEO POLAND GREATEST COUNTRY IN WORLD KURVA!!!
😀😀😀
I predict that you wrote this comment on a phone
Arabs: Imagine if we unite the arab world
Europeans: Should we stop the EU
Arabs: 💀
EU:Peace is good
Also EU:*Passes Article 13*
EU citizens:*peace was never an option*
@Sami Sund do you even realise what that means ? It means mass censorship and thousands to be out of a career
@Sami Sund Ceterum autem censeo Europa Universalis Unio esse delendam
They say nothing Will happen just as we see the biggest censorship campaign era since the cumunist crimes against humanity . Pro life sites getting blacklisted rigth Next to hardcore porno. You ONLY take it and even defend these people because you believe in utopia , people like you are the ones who are Taken out first. Usefull idiots they call . There are no such thing as doing a little harm to make good on a larger scale . That is allways the line that well intented vilains use to justify their dreadfull actions.
Sami Sund is that a treath?? Calling me crazy does not Change the facts asshole. Beign a economic migrant explains your position , why don't you go to your country and make it great again? Ah ... Socialists just like other people stuff. Wellfare state Will eventualy end , read gulag arquipélago , get close to reallity .
@@jordondeannon5501 No it doesn´t but it kinda could Technically open the door for future attempts to bypass Free Speech. The whole censoring Thing was always the weakest Argument. But I totally Agree Article 13 is so fucking stupid. Just not for this particular Reason.
I love EU with all my heart and I'm proud to be european!
Me, Lithuanian: watching video
Also me: sees Lithuanian flag.
Me: people shall know about Lithuania because of this. :)
fun fact about lithuania: it was somewhat of a great power of eastern europe even before its personal union with poland, correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure poland was carried by lithuania for a few hundred years then occupied for the rest of its history, im probubly wrong but if i am, tell me
@@scooperdooper4097 You r not full righ bro yes lithuania was big but it was pretty primitive in a lot of places
At least your country isn't overshadowed by history as much as we bulgarians are. Trust me, we have done a lot of things in history but almost no one talks about them.
@@piotrmazur9744 ok thx for correcting me
@@vijandplays3151 lets be honest here, lithuania is only commonly mentioned in 1 of 3 instances
1. Russia is invading Lithuania
2. Lithuania is revolting against Russia
3. Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth
Ban EU for banning memes
The NuggetBacon Only that they didn't cus the laws were rejected in the european parliament. This didn't happen in the USA with net neutrality but I don't see anyone saying we should destroy the USA
Knorrway Now that you mentioned it, DESTROY THE US!
Yeah fuck usa, full of sjw snowflakes
BQNG hey, don't blame USA, I am a citizen and I/we can't do anything about the current crazy imperialistic oligarchy that is our leaders. Our government has become so disconnected from the citizens it is sad and scary. They bend to will of large money while enslaving us. They do what they want no matter if the majority of the us citizens is against it or not 4 .I agree that part of the problem is citizens in US because we cant seem to stand together with enough of populous to stop force positive change instead of soon to be total
enslavement, but united we stand and divided we fall and as of now we are the Divided States.
@@sscaliosas80s and that why USA is going to burn in hell it isn't a country you want to know WHY
BECAUSE IT IS SIMPLE
EVERY CITIZEN included YOU
rejected and reject communism the union and the family United the family = the country
But you love private and private corporation so the country can't control it then the corporation control the country and that why they do whatever they want and that why you're country suck it is just a Matter of time before you and you're country
Pay back for
1 all the war and innocent dead in the battlefield and the country down
2 collapse ussr
And so many so I tell you
If you want to save you're country
1 change yourself and try to do the good around you
2 don't follow the mass snowflakes citizen
3 don't support wars on other countries
4 NEVER SUPPORT capitalism because it is the main reason why you are in shut
And this is to all citizens of devided states of America
After all thinks improved with the eu so i see no reason to abandon it
7:17 YOU!
ME? *falls back*
NANI????????
Heck yeah I'd be terrified if my computer started communicating with me
I think the EU needs to be rebooted, because it's goals are so much drifted away from it's original purpose.
Fortunately, this is true. Because the EU was founded like 60 years ago. Times change.
Look for "Cultural Marxism" on UA-cam. It will explain the agenda of the EU. And spread it.
Very true but war has not been a problem
You mean it wasnt intented to be a totalitarian organization, I think Hitler who was the first one to purpose the idea of a European Union would disagree.
@@SagaciousNihilist - Well, it was an economic union, and not the forth reich two decades ago...
Besides, we easteners thought we will joining the free world, not a new socialism.
Maybe we were naive.
UA-cam comments are not the place for discussion. This channel needs a dedicated forum with moderators so we can actually have intellectual discussions.
Why not a good ol' subreddit ?
Something like Quora would be great!
Yes, an echochamber leftist safe space where facts aren't allowed.
There is one search kurzegasagt on reddit
John Red How do you mean? Please explain.
Average salary of the European Commission is €260,000. Money we’ll spent on unelected bureaucrats and self justifying administrative rule makers
True
Hey, UK is still in here in the EU and its 2.019
Brexit is eternal and never ending.
The UK is still part of Europe (the continent) but not the EU. Get it?
@@kermitdekikker2308 UK is still in the EU though
@@kermitdekikker2308 They are still part if the EU. And they can always hold a refferendum and change their mind staying in the EU
@@erenyeager5480 oh, alright. Thanks for the information 👍
How to get your point across on the Internet:
1. Use original, unique, and impressive visuals
2. Have a cool voice.
Uhh, I'd think the reason why they do that is not to get their point across, but make there video "not shit".
you forgot about the sexy british accent
their art style is pretty generic. I dont dislike it but its not unique.
nevermind the truth
**125 years ago**
Kurzgezagt great great grandfather: Is Concert of Europe worth it?
The benefits outweigh the negatives, I think. It's still something that can be worked on and I really believe, for at least Finland, that EU is a good thing.
yes
@Finnish Guy n-no
@31 03 Freedom of travel, freedom of work, common market, EU supports alot of things financially. And where the hell are you getting child rape because I fucken live in Finland and have never heard of that. If it was a real problem then it would be in the news.
@31 03 you sound like a moron. "libtard", yeah that creates an environment for constructive discussion. Fucking get off your high horse, piece of shit.
@31 03 yeah clearly you know everything about me. you are worthless.
Coincidence? I think not.
Mystery? Maybe.
Hotel? Trivago.
Julian Schönau Staahp you're killing me lmao!😂😂
TRIVAGO
seriously.
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Spain was in a very bad position after many years of isolatement and dictator Franco. When we entered the union in 1986 we boosted our economy like crazy and our infrastructure was modernized. Then we proceeded to be one of the most powerful economies in Europe(until the property bubble burst). If the EU can do the same for other countries I am glad to stay and make a better world.
Thank god Spain no longer has an undemocratic regime forcing rulings on people from on high, taking into account only the interests of the political and economic elite. Now it has the EU, an undemocratic regime forcing rulings on people from on high, taking into account only the interests of the political and economic elite. Wait...
It gets worse, we now have two layers of undemocratic regime forcing rulings on people from on high, taking into account only the interests of the political and economic elite, our own government and the EU, and the EU enables the corruption of our government with bailouts to mantain the status quo.
The political and economic elite always dictates the rules, in any country. Or do you believe that the UK will be listening to the factory worker after the Brexit? Of course not.
Can you stop spreading this bullshit? The EU has two levels of indirect democratic houses,
one that is directly elected by the population, and the other that is elected by the people that the population elected.
This is the same structure that the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, etc... with their ministers or senates.
Inform yourself before spewing nonsense.
Luc Willemssens are you insane Spain is the poster child of being fucked by the EU
heres a fact that you failed to show in your schematic map - lithuania is in eurozone.
I was pissed about that too
El Karpador nah, you can get a cream for it though, my friend Steve had Lithuania...poor guy
Lithuania was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a pretty long time ago. Poland's still around, no idea where Lithuania went.
lithu..fucking what?
I'm from the UK and I'm really annoyed that we left, it did so much for us and it seems like a very slim majority if that is blind to it
The EU is the most stagnant economic region on earth. The UK will do better on its own and we have already seen that to be the case.
@@colejones6312 you know, businesses getting crippled by new checks, sounds like we're living the dream
@@colejones6312 According to the News UK economy has been hit harder in 2020 than most European countries
@@mackman6602 It was hit the hardest actually, thanks to the incompetence of the UK gov and their inability to manage the pandemic although it has not only bounced back, it also stretched even further ahead of France compared to pre covid GDP figures and overtook India in December to move back into the top 5 economies (at least until India recovers).
@@colejones6312 Well, good for UK then
"In recent years, the discussion about political topics has become super toxic with SAD real world consequences."
Wow I wonder who that could be referencing.
"Ahmed"
Abdel Ahmed Tolerant Liberal
Poor Hans having his wife get spit roasted by Ahmed and Hussein.
They asked to include fact-based discussion. Welp, no alternative facts here!
Leftists who shut down speech violently?
EU is a good ground to create something even greater. We should focus on fixing the problems instead of abandoning the idea. From history books we know how nasty it gets when we are not cooperating.
TomEdo No we should abandon it it's a goner. I voted for Brexit and its not that I despise Europe, I acc love Europe. Anyways I despise the EU as they have control over all our laws, unelected officials make them and we pay money to be in it. I wouldn't mind paying a fee to be in the single market but not a political institution. Sure the Netherlands and France had a referendum on whether to make an EU and they just ignored them, hows that democratic??? Anyways if the EU was just a economical union I wouldn't mind but sadly it's not. Btw I don't support free movement either.
Just because a country decides to leave the political union does not mean that it cannot co-operate.
Why in your mind can the two not co-exist.
The world is not black and white.
It's a repeat of what happened during the founding of the US. If we never switched from the Articles of Confederation we would have been a lot like the EU is currently.
"If we never switched from the Articles of Confederation we would have been a lot like the EU is currently."
Wrong. The articles of confederation gave too much power to the states with almost no central power. Exact opposite of the EU.
Assuming we cannot cooperate without the EU. EU is not synonomous with cooperation.
Lithuania has Euro but it wasn't marked :(.
That's because no one cares about Lithuania
jonh johnson Welp, can't say I don't agree with you.
Well its true
Lithuanians get little to no recongnition from the world
Yep
L I T H U A N I A
S T I L L
D O E S N ' T
E X I S T
We have recently seen how unaligned individual countries can be vulnerable to invasion by more powerful neighbours.
comment not necessarily about this video in particular, but about the whole of kurzgesagt. after receiving understandably limited amounts of info about a topic delivered in such high quality that it sparks my interest 20x more than it would if it weren't for the insanely high quality of kurzgesagt videos, i would always love to dig deeper into topics but i always fall into the mistake of expecting THIS high of quality from other info sources as well, and it always leaves me disappointed, lol :D in short, kurzgesagt's video qualitites are above and beyond anything i've ever seen and i pity anyone who hasn't got a taste of what valueable information delivered in an enjoyable way feels like
As a researcher in an EU country I couldn't imagine losing so many connections and the expertise coming from other EU countries. I share the opinion that while it has it's flaws, the EU is vital for europes global presence
Muh vested interests.
I’m watching you kurzgesagt…
European army? Sounds great for the french/german/italian arms industry
we dont promote war like Americans
EU is way better than USA
Hepo Slis that’s why “we” depend so much on USA economy...
@@Dany9823 but the USA has the biggest debt in the world and most of its money owns to western Europe and China ,
Well the Eurofighter was UK, tornado was UK and sell to the others, if UK leaves it is sure there will be no UK leading in it.
Safe for the Jaguar or the lynx helicopter.
But UK does not invest in development while the others do and regroup.
Sadly UK small arms were crap, UK tanks can't compete the others (all goes to AMX30-Leopard 1 then 2) New EU tanks is a mix of french turret and german chassis.
UK missiles are not that top either (all goes to airbus missile).
UK could have lead if they get implied in Europe but now they have to buy US planes....
@Huslen Batsuuri but article 13 by made me dislike the EU so much
The EU has a lot of flaws, and doesnt work as intented. However. If the EU can overcom those flaws o think it would be worth it.
Don't forget, we have to try. If we don't have the eu it will be a mess again.
That's the case with anything? If anything can overcome it's flaws, the problem is solved? I don't understand the comment?
@@malikrahman8649 i am not sure i understand yours
@@Christian-cr6pn He's trying to say that nothing is perfect in the true sense of words, just like any government you can't have a perfect government no matter how much you can't make everyone happy
It can't and won't. It refused to even after brexit. Reform will not happen.
I'm from Poland, I support EU as union of countries, but not dictatorship few countries over everyone else.
We had here communist faction ruling from end of WW2 to 1989. So we as polish nation despise anyone who is telling "do as I command , it's better for you, OR ELSE". When Polish people asked if it is ok to open borders for millions of people from different culture, no background check we got ridiculed. And some people called us Polish man and women, who got worst treatment in WW2, of all nations only second to Jewish people. We were called dangerous nationalists... SO in eyes of EU leaders nation that wants to preserve it's history , culture langue and safely, is dangerous nationalist :/
Dysputant Russia suffered way more than poland in ww2
NYC stfu, Poland is now fascist for not wanting their country to be destroyed by immigrants.
Poland lost a bigger percentage of it's pre war population
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Human_losses_by_country
+Dysputant Lol, Poland. You guys have been conqerued the most out of any other country in the world. Mongols, Romans, Nazis, Commies, Napolean, you name it, they've had you. You guys just have so many resources.
and we conquered russia lol
As a European, I’d say, we need to reform it
I agree, but there is a lot to reform and the current people in the power stop the EU doesn't seem willing to reform it in the right direction.
Imposing their ideology on citizens, criticising the non-separation of powers only in those countries that do not play along, trying to act as a Union instead of a confederation, "harmonising" taxes in a race to drain your money for the so-called "common good", not being sufficiently democratic, holding more powers than it originally had and blaming others for their misdoings are not good traits for a institution with so much power and so far away from the citizens.
Personally, I believe the concept of a United Europe is brilliant. I see us all as one people. Europeans.
However, the current state of the EU is purely depressing. Immigration out of control, censorship, corporate monopolies out of control, and the whole Union being run by Paris and Berlin alone, has led to many losing faith in it.
I'm sure many people wouldn't mind a EUROPEAN united Europe, as long as our values, traditions and beliefs are being respected instead of being told how to live our lifes by imported minorities, corporate goons and governmental elites.
i think a united europe is not feesable without some sort of major catch. it would be like austria hungary, a shamble of a nation hobbling about barely able to co-operate if at all.
everyone in europe is just too different. this same reason is why i think a EU military would just be stupid. yeah sure the third *largest* but seeing that it would be very hard to cooperate with people that have tens of different languages then i cannot see that working. not to mention equipment. there would be no equipment standardisation other than the NATO standards already in place.
@@pliat Language can be taught and standards can be set. It would take some initial investment, but a United European army would be a much more efficient, capable fighting force than the distinct member states piled unto a heap could ever hope to achieve. Right now, so much money is being spend on militaries that can literally never do anything, because the nations surrounding them are allies, and the nations that aren't (either now or in the future) and can project their power to the point of overcoming such logistics are so overwhelming that resistance would be largely futile. It is a complete waste.
A United European army could get rid of redundancies, coordinate vastly better, and would allow the EU to actually start thinking of force projection of their own. I get why people are hesitant, but the fact remains that none of us are empires any more, and only by banding together can we defend ourselves against those that would enforce their terms on us.
@@kayeka4123 humanity has and will find a way to divide people into subsections, to make it easier for our brains to process, i am sure you realise that people are generally tribal, this is the same thing that brought down countries like austria Hungary. You may be able to set standards but it isnt up to them to follow them. The spanish will speak Spanish, and the French, French, you wont be able to stop divisions from happening and making the entire eu speak English (i assume) is just not feasible. It just wont work, people wont just forget they are [insert nationality] they will just start fighting amongst themselves. And anyway, warfare is no longer as it used to be. Nuclear weapons saw to that. Conventional wars are now fought in the third world With guerilla warfare. Cyber warfare is in my opinion a much more pressing matter.
@@pliat People don't need to forget where they are from, and the idea that anyone would ask the Europeans to forget their language is ridiculous. All they need is to learn an additional language to communicate with their neighbours on equal footing, and hey, look at that, that's what they're already doing. The actual incompatible differences in culture are already rather small, and getting smaller every day thanks to increased communication all across the world, if they ever really were to begin with. Where I work, people from all across Europe are already so normal that their origin is little more than a personality quirk.
Nuclear Weapons are all kinds of scary, but everyone knows the rules: whoever uses them is just as dead as their victims. While this has so far prevented large-scale conflict where one party occupies the other, it did little for more smaller-scale skirmishes as people are feeling out exactly how far one can go before they trigger Armageddon. The exact answer to that question is still unclear, but as Russia demonstrated in Crimea and China in the South China Sea, it's probably along the lines of "pretty far". Pure Power Projection is still a part of the equation, even if large scale conflict is not (for now).
The addition of cyber warfare only makes banding together even more important, as sharing resources and innovation can only help Europe stay ahead of the curve. As fun as it is to imagine one guy with his laptop in his basement bringing world powers to their knees might be, in the real world there is still tons of manpower and material involved.
We can't not have a military in a world where the USA becomes increasingly unreliable allies, and the militaries we have are largely ineffective and overly expensive. A United European army would be cheaper to maintain, better at its job, and more able to adjust to the new trends of warfare.
@@kayeka4123 usa unreliable ally? it is fine from what i can tell, also how would this military be funded, exactly? because germany, one of the largest economies on the globe, isnt paying into NATO, if they are not willing to pay the 2% into the defence of what is essentially the defence of the western world then why would they do it for the eu?
as for nuclear weapons, it is blatantly obvious that no nuclear power will fire upon another, and that no small scale conflicts have happened in europe since the yugos slaughtered each other (based on their "differences in culture") but i dont see why we would need an army if our "differences in culture" are becoming more irrelivent. no sane man will click the declare war button on anyone in the west because of nuclear arms. As for anyone that does NATO can probably bomb them to the stone age. face it, this eu army idea is not a good one, it would be too expensive to implement, a costly and probably useless venture.
You know after watching this video I come to the realization that a Latin American Union would be awesome and I wonder how would it look like and how would it fit in today's society, it's really interesting if you think about it!.
nope, i think we dont have as much flat earthers as you do also anti vaxxers but the ´trend´ is coming to us and i would kill these people....
I honestly wish the US would fix some of it's problems, pull it's head out of it's ass, and union up with Canada and a lot of American countries. Building a wall is not going to fix the influx of low pay seeking immigrants, what will fix it is a prosperous region. I wish everyone would realize that the world would be a lot less shitty if everyone was at their full potential.
Sound like a very interesting idea. That area has vast resources and some of the most beautiful and valuable natural landscapes in the world. You'd have to call it the South American Union or something similar. If the union is founded with being Latin American as a basic requirement of sorts, then it will probably regress into a racist society.
I get the impression there is still a lot of corruption in some parts of South America too, so it'd be quite the task uniting everyone!
That would be nice for you guys, but I think South America is still very divided and too filled up with dictators/corruption and something needs to thoroughly change. I think in the future it's a really good idea.
We have a lot of domestic cleanup to do before. But Latin American integration has been in the agenda for decades. That's what the ALADI was created for
The EU needs work but it's honestly the only thing that allows us to compete ( albeit marginally as things stand ) with China or the US ; leaving it means only getting weaker .
Germany competed well befire the EU. And US Economy is down.
@@Ratselmeister WWIII but this time all of Europe against the US instead of just Germany. Wonder how that would go down.
@@custodeseuropeaerip US than
I watched this video 3 years after it got out, and I still think is lovely
The problem is that even between neighouring countries, values can differ drastically. We have different cultures, languages and goals. And many, particulary in Eastern Europe fear the loss of sovergeinity.
Exactly they dont even tell us about the United States Of Europe.
Karel Havlicek Exactly why it's not going to work.
I fear the loss of all the European cultures and traditions. I don't want to go to Europe and find one grey, homogeneous, singularity devoid of any soul. I like going to each country for their individual culture. This "we are all the same" crap is demonstrably wrong and ignorant.
Having to abide by mostly the same laws doesn't mean we're losing our traditions and cultures. The states have been together for hundreds of years and each state has its own culture. Texas is completely different from California, which are different from new york, which is different from michigan, which are all different from Nevada
Hell, you can go to cities within any country and each city is different, from its traditions to its culture to its people.
The fears that europe will become a homogenized gray mass are completely unfounded. And I know how much eastern countries benefit from belonging to european union because I am from one of them.
Don't developed countries have the essentially the culture and goals? How many people did you kill today due to your country's culture? What I mean is European Countries are all different but they still have the same "base" culture
PhysiOSQuantum Everyone has different political goals, For example, Poland & Ukrain would be more worried about russia, Greece would be Concered with their economy, Germany & sweden is more concerned with losing there culture to islamic migrants and the UK is more concered with Sensoring there own fucking population.
The biggest proof of Eu not being a tyranny is that people can say that eu is bad.
Y'know...as if brexit wasnt proof enough
Soon Brussels wont allow you to.
@@JoaoSilva22222 allegation? heavy. proof? none. hotel? trivago.
@@reflectingPastChoices Say on youtube that people shouldnt wear a mask and see what happens.
@@JoaoSilva22222 correlation? absent. argument? unfindable. you? irrelevant.
I think the EU is defintely flawed, and it seems more and more countries are starting to wonder whether they want to stay or not.
However, we haven't had a war in a long time now, and Europe has seen a lot of that. So in that regard, I'd say it's worth it.
I do think though, that people who are saying things like: "maybe we need a war", "there should be a war, then at least something happens."
those people, I find dangerous. It is very clear to me, that they do not know what a war entails.
A war is the "easy" way to change things. Easy, because everything is already in ruins and can be built new. Those people do not count the lives, that this would cost. Changing the EU is hard. You have to convince people and you will have to make compromises. But we shoud never stop standing up for this way. A war can never be an option.
@@1001digital The nuclear weapons make a war more dangerous
people who want a war are often not those who have to fight a war... so... well
Why ending it, when we can change it and make it better. Ending the European Union would be fucking insane!
100 % agree!
It should become one country literally and each country in the union should combine their military/defense budget and give Russia the middle finger and help Ukraine when they are ready to. Also if Oceania, South-East Asia, Japan and South Korea combined their military and made a Pacific Union. Ugh the last part only in my dreams :/
Hell no. EU is literally forcing it's memebers to accept immigrants, my country is one of them! Thing like this will never work.
Patrik Sedláček Why?why do you think that immigrants are something bad?
Matt King What does my Avatar has to do with anything? And stop being such an ignorant pice of shit.
The EU needs fixing but still now we have a lotttttt of benefits from being united in the EU
@TimTim Smith someone is mad lolz, you've left now, move on lol
@TimTim Smith for those who want to be proven right they always eventually will, for me I'm 100% for the EU & greetings from Bulgaria
@TimTim Smith alright and do you know who takes care of your old with respect huh? the balls you have to say that especially when we pay tax in the UK than you ever paid to the EU. honestly, what a douche.
@TimTim Smith Yeah good question. Honestly dude, get some manners & education.
@TimTim Smith UK is fooled very easily. Otherwise you would never leave. You just need a remainder that you were weak before joining. The EU rules made you powerful, the rules you placed for your own benefit. Now the very same rules you helped to create will constrain you. It is as simple as that.
I'm swiss, so not in the eu, but we greatly profit from the peace in the eu. I think one peoblem the eu has, is thinking very different economies could all have the same currency. Of course it is way more convenient when travelling, but it seems to produce a lot of instability
As a fellow swiss I agree, but I think further financial and economical integration is the solution rather than abandoning the Euro, a strong and globally releveant currency.
@@randomdude4207 that might be true; i don't study economics, so not sure which solution would be best
Why there are so many less wars:
Nukes
I’m an American so idk how it is in Europe but the EU looks like a really cool union I wish the best for the Europeans ❤️🤍💙
Yea and hopefully it turns into something similar like the US (just without all those guns)
@@florians.849 hopefully, it does NOT get like USA, since so many things are fucked up there.
@@sagittariusbstar1805
I think he just meant about making the EU a federal union.
Thank you
@@sagittariusbstar1805 Let's make it better than the US!
My oppinion is to not end EU, because when I think what happened to Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, it make sense to EU existence. If EU will end will be a chaos and we will be expose to violence between former members and external threats.
Without having spend much time researching EUs pros and cons, one thing that pissed me off that it seems to be very little demands on the "net beneficiaries". Poland for instance, have a net gain of like 12 billion euros every year but when the refugee crisis hit EU, they pretty much refuse to help... So in other word, they reap all benefits but wont do their part of the job. Instead, the net EU contributors like Germany, France, Sweden etc have to take in all refugees.
Germany can just close down the borders for refugees like Poland does. No one is stopping them. Also, a huge part of the Polish economy is owned by western powers. Poland would not be given "aid" if it was not beneficial. Do you seriously believe Poland has been getting free money and westerners are just stupid?
Becuase remember WW2How Nazis killes Poles .So Now they have to pay for past sins
I’m British. I wasn’t old enough to vote in 2016 and my heart aches everyday since we left the European Union. The UK sadly will never stand a chance competing in on global stage alone and we are now just sitting ducks waiting for the US to asset strip our economy and healthcare sector. Together with the EU we would essentially be the second most powerful actors on the international stage.
Good thing you didn't have the right to vote back then
canzuk could happen, and thats a union which is basically just another empire for you
Pfft. Who needs the UN when you got Pepsi!
Not joking
the great equalizer...
hey, that should be their new slogan!
Marius Dvarionas chill dude it was just a joke jfc
boy look at these divas getting offended over a joke, truly the great enlightened minds of our times
Pyrotron I actually want Pepsi now fuck
"But in the current political climate, Europe has to ask itself if it really wants to depend on the United States for it's safety"
Roasted.
As an American, I wish you guys wouldn't depend on us for defense. It's tiring to hear about how much more the US spends on its military than other countries, when those other countries are relying on us to do their defense for them. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to shout "Of course we spend more on the military than they do, we ARE their military!"
Even if you didn't you would still spend that much money on defence ever heard of the military industrial complex?
Just annex everything. Murica!
Even if you took on all defense spending for the countries in NATO you wouldn't be paying as much as you are now. The US spends an insane amount on their military, not because they protect everyone (you can do that with much less) but because the military-industrial complex in the US is very influential.
shivore you have no idea how I hope for the creation of an European Army and something like United States of Europe
Well EU does have flaws and needs quite a lots of work, yet still I am very pro EU, and I don't think it will ever change. EU FTW.
The fact that people outside of your country can dictate laws to you and then force immigrants into your country without your consent makes the EU garbage. It takes the worst parts of democracy and then threatens 'members' with sanctions if they dont kowtow to the whims of the politicians you never had a vote for. The UK wanting to leave is precisely because of Myrtle's power trip.
@@ADRooney1 You have no idea how the EU works if you seriously think some country can "dictate laws" for others
Also the usage of sanctions is directed towards and between non-EU countries way more aggressive than within the EU itself
@@ADRooney1 Can you name one law that you don't like :)
@@ADRooney1I'm going to tell from my country perspective, we have the constitution that has sovereignty over all laws even international but if we think that law is good we make it constitutional if not we don't agree and it's going to be a fuck fest of paperwork but in the end we wold not agree and eu can't do much . So yes we have duties but we have a lot of free and cool stuff life Healthcare and free borders
This video explains it well , greets from Belgium :D
Greets from Norway. a citizen that is thankful for never joining the union.
How is working having to accept every single EU law while having 0, no, niet, non power?
I´m sure it is for the best interest of norway to be like a children and being constantly told what to do. you wanted to saveguard your sovereingty and rather than accepting a mutual shared one, you ended up harming your own one. It must be pretty aweful to know that your voice counts nothing in the world stage.
the only possible option for Europe of surviving or even regaining it's power is to unite under one flag, one leader and one religion... and kicking the fuck out of America
Juan Keker I don't think so.
I thought Belgium didn't exist
Kurzgesagt, or the best duck on UA-cam
70 years of peace! We love to bring that up (conveniently disregarding the Balkan wars), but can anyone produce any actual proof that this is due to the creation or policies of the E.U.?
The eu created the idea that need one other, thus making war unprofitable. Also the open borders between european countries allow the many ethnicities to coexist, eliminating hatred amd misconception between them. But the eu isn't the sole responsible for the peace, onu and nato also have a role
@some dude i was talking about wars between european countries, not interventions in other continents. You should see the eu videos made by Avery thing. He also showns the pros and cons
The balkan wars were nearly 110 years ago? Before ww1 and ww2
@@christophergraney-ward2759 I am off course referring to the Yugoslav wars aka the Third Balkan war (1991-1999), don't pretend you didn't know that
Peace after WWII can be explained by the interconnection of european economies, the fact that aside from the Iberian peninsula all of western Europe was made of democracies, while all eastern europe aside from Yugoslavia and Greece was made of soviet puppet states. That's how peace was achieved and the European Coal and Steel Community (not the UE) was merely a tool for that economic interconnection, a tool that didn't involve any form of political confederalism.
Italian 11 Article:
Italy refuses any kind of war as a method to resolve conflicts of any type. The Italy uses war only for defense.
We would switch side ahahahhaha 🇮🇹
Ma per favore ti prego non e "the" Italy non si mette l'articolo e poi uno stato in inglese
I dont think mussolini would like to hear tath...
@@pedrocapitao9268 lol
@@walterwalter8607 ITALY QUICK RUSSIA IS ATTACKING
Italy: Im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move
Don't forget that if the EU is ended, England and France can declare war on each other like the old times (such beauty)
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Kurzgesagt, if you have it somewhere in your scope... Since migration crisys in Europe is heated and emotional topic most of the time I would really appreciate your take on it.
explain about bitcoin please!!
The bit coin is a currency mined on the deep web by telling comments and if they like the comment they donate bitcoins. i have no idea why this isen't illegal
It's true that the Euro question/problem might solve itself through virtual currencies. Bitcoins and Ethers are becoming more and more widely adopted, and who knows maybe virtual currencies will make traditional currencies obsolete anyway.
how dose it work then
There are many videos on it, but in a nutshell it is digital currency that is not bound by banks or governments. They can be transferred to anyone in the world without the need for 3rd party or extra costs, exchange rates, or restrictions. They are not mined on the dark web, they are mined by people, companies, and collectives with computer systems with multiple high end video cards doing billion or trillions of hashes a second. While it can be used to purchase illegal things online, it is also accepted by millions of legitimate companies and private sellers globally. There are even ATMs that will exchange any currency for bitcoin. It is an economy specifically designed for the internet age, free of big bank and financial institutions who exist to make money off of your money, and more importantly it decentralizes the control of currency that governments have. In the future, it has a very real possibility to radically change the balance of power that governments have to wage war and oppress their population for financial gain.