You're leftist remain views on this video are outstanding. There are sooo many NEGATIVE things about this video it is also outstanding. There are sooo many negative things about the EU it is also outstanding. Quick question (1 of probably 1000 I could ask), why didn't you mention Ireland and the Lisborn Treaty? How they had a referendum and voted against it but the EU made them vote again until the EU had the decision they wanted? Not very democratic of the EU! Why do they have an anthem when they are not a country? I love your videos Simon and the team but for this video and your narrative i have just unsubscribed.
@@mnichols1979 Bots???? Oh, that is the go to response for every comment you disagree with. Knuckle dragging right winger???? Err no, I really do not think so. Oh dear, you really, really do not like anyone who doesn't agree with you do you????
Wait now I am confused. The ad read was for Newsvoice but the end of the video said Ground news and they sort of sound like they do the same thing but are still apparently separate apps and I did not readily see a link between them. What's the deal?
Simon, Three reasons we need a video about the Human Genome Project: 1. It was a megaproject. It even has project in the name. 2. There are few good UA-cam videos about it and it could bring new traffic towards your channel. 3. It was an important scientific and medical undertaking
He just set the course for having to explain the creation of Modern Asia, The USSR Collapse into Russia, The Establishment of North America, The Fluctuation of Tides in South America, The Rise of Australia into a New Western Nation... I see what you did here Simion
I actually think the history behind Australia is fascinating... between the indigenous peoples and the ones who were forced to live there by British rule.
The little speech at the end was actually rather beautiful. I'm watching these videos in the background as I work and I had to stop what I was doing, tab back in and pay attention fully at the end. Thank you Simon.
Definitely a good mini speech. Also, major credit to the writer, Oliver Guiberteau for the speech. Simon read it extremely well, but the words aren't really his to take credit for.
@@serchbloc2395 EU and Europe are used interchangably like US and America. And in the EU's case, it makes sense since the dedicated goal is the unification of the entire continent. A union from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
This was interesting, somehow we seem to forget the history of Europe. When we are united, we are a major player on the world scene....when not, we fight each other.
The Øresund bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden, where the half of the straits length is an actual bridge while the other half is a man made island and a submerged tunnel - so bridge pillars don't conflict with the entry path of Copenhagens Kastrup airport
yeah - not until you actually know how much efforts Soviet union put to rebuild eastern part of europe being fucking devastated to the core itself unlike US and England. But yeah gulags vodka and nesting dolls.
@@LazyPictures Oh, really ? Can you enlight us ? You can start with saying where are you from. You know .. I am from Czech Republic. As it happened, leading powers somehow forgot to ask us and we become part of eastern bloc. About post war rebuilding and fantastic soviet effort, hm, where to start .. First they FORCED us to refuse Marshall plan. You know, it would look really bad to accpet help from rotten capitalists. Then we went through epizodes of political murder processes, lockdouwn from outer world, shoting people who just did want to leave, labour camps, political prisoners dying in uranium mines .. Oh, wait, uranium. We were particulary rich in uranium deposits. But hey, uranium is bad, radioactive and such thing, you know .. so soviets saved us from it and yes, that was SOME EFFORT. Trains full of uranium ore heading to the east ... somehow, they did not bother to pay for it. Then they decided that we are in danger, what danger I hear you ask ? You fool, WESTERN INVASION !!! So they invaded us - to protect of course. They literally pillaged places they chose to live. Their military bases ended up as ecological disaster, soil and underground water poluted with oil products, lubricants and who knows what else. Quite expensive revitalisation project, I have to say. Again, not a single coin from russians ... And list goes on. It is already long so I make it shorter. We weren't in such a bad condition after WWII, then we experienced soviets, worse then locusts. They stole, pillaged and destroyed everything they could. After their very unwelcome presence, we ended up in unimaginable worse condition, then we were before. I have to control my self to not being really rude, because imbecilic comments like yours makes me rally angry. Do some actual research, before you write something stupid please. Soviet effort .. yeah, right. I would like to see you to live through fantastic soviet effort and then see what do you think about it ...
@@OslikusPrime Yeah, soviets "helped us rebuild", using our hands, our materials and our money :D As the old people say: "We gave soviets grain and in return they took our coal"
As I'm born in 1997 in the Netherlands, I've never known a world without the EU and I can't remember a world without the euro. For me it's completely normal and how it's been all my life. It's mostly the older people who lived befire the EU and/or the euro, who want to go back to that time. I do however agree with those people that the EU has some major problems. It costs way too much (for instance, the members of parliament earn absurd wages for the amount of work they do), it's very bureaucratic and it is not democratic enough. European citizens don't have enough influence. But it has also done a lot of good: a single market, the GDPR, keeping peace in Europe, freedom to live, work and study anywhere within the EU/Schengen area (this is the most important one for me as a student), free mobile data usage, phone calls and texting within the EU, and much more.
Huge thanks, Simon. By far, imo, your best Megaproject video to date. Just one small critic: you might have cited the names of the main founding fathers (Monnet, Schuman, De Gasperi and al.) but as a die-hard European since my youth in the early 50s, sharing evenly my life between London and Paris, this topic remains very close to my heart and has revived many heartfelt memories... like my dad proudly appending an "EU" sticker on the boot of the family Peugeot in 1964...
Soviet Union was a forced integration on basis if dictatorship and fear. While the European Union was a volunteer integration based on peace, democracy and economy
@Charles Yuditsky Yeah, like requiring you to make up your mind on whether you are a member or not, and not demand use of member facility after leaving.
Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?
Yes very intresting, another suggestion: Željava airport in the mountains, secret and largest underground airport and military air base in Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in Europe.
@Sociable Netw0rker Is that some sort of role-play? Because I'm not aware of an institution with such a name existing and your comment seemed more appropriate in such a setting
@Sociable Netw0rker hahahaha what a pile of bullshit! Of course the EU has its own problems with tax havens not much difference to UK. But at least it tries to implement legislation to contain them unlike UK. In fact UK always jeopardized such efforts when still in the EU to protect Cayman Islands and the likes. And now some smart asses think it would be a great idea to turn the entire UK into one (Singapore at the Thames?). But the actual point was not that but whether EU authorities are elected. And yes they are, directly (parliament) and indirectly (commission) via the EU governments which on their own are elected. Who btw. did elect BoJo? The people? NOPE! Only his party was elected by the people and they had a party internal election about who becomes PM. A PM in the UK is not even confirmed by a parliamentary vote like in other countries. So please don't play that stupid "unelected EU" record, it starts to get boring but it won't get less wrong!
@@wanderschlosser1857 The whole point of the Commission is to be an independent and pragmatic problem-solving entity that proposes legislation. Future EC employees are tested through the EPSO exams before they get a job to choose those applicants with superior reasoning and communication skills. It is up to the elected politicians in the Council to tell the commission what to do, and up to the European Parliament as well as the member states to make the final decision on possible rejection and implementation of proposals. You can't vote for who gets to be a civil servant in your member state either so I never understood why people suddenly get so worked up when the can't vote on specific EU civil servants. Do you really care specifically which lawyers and economists are tasked with drafting, for example, recommendations to the Dutch government on adressing on the Dutch housing market and excessive mortgage debt? Also the commissioners are indeed still chosen through direct democracy anyway.
It contributed to peace on the continent. You also forget NATO and the obvious threat from the East bringing Europe together. P.s. The Nobel Peace Prize has lost it's credibility. Any mong can get one these days
@@plugsocket9432 The EU solves international problems and grievances with diplomacy and cooperation. The Troubles were a domestic issue which was caused by the English with the aggressive cultural destruction for many centuries, also Divide and Rule politics which backfired at the time of Troubles, and London didn't asked for outside help. If you want to blame, blame London parliament and English. They voted on Brexit, against the will Northern Ireland and Scotland. They leave every colony in a mess, like India-Pakistan, Israel - Palestine, African colonies. They don't want to cooperate with no one. They deepened the Irish Famine, like Trump does it today with Covid in US. Hope that Good Friday Agreement's achievements will remain! Hope that Northern Ireland and Scotland will be part of the EU again!
But perhaps In a completely different way than most organizations. Usually the "committee on committees" norminates people to serve on the committees within the organization.
The EU sounds like the best thing ever for us Europeans. Western countries get to become more competitive on the global scale, while Eastern countries get insane amounts of investments, grants, loans, jobs and opportunities.
No different from most large nations. The council is the senate, the commision the government, the parliament, the parliament, and the supreme court the supreme court.
Hey im from Richmond Va and i just want to Thank you so much for you video platforms. I watch all of them and I have learned so much. A great narrator can make learning fun and that's exactly what you are. Thank you Brother
@@craigdackiw1877 So why do you leaving? I could see many promises during Brexit campaign but I am not sure what worked as indented and what is still waiting for implementation...
@@grlt23 lets see 1: to stop unlimited eu people coming over taking jobs and homes off locals 2: to stop eu citizens from claiming child benefits for children not born or living in the uk 3: to stop the eu from making laws in this country 3:to stop eu courts interfering in the uk and finally to take control of our waters and stop eu ships from plundering our fish
@@craigdackiw1877 1. Immigration policy is mortly up to the member state to decide. There isn't much EU could do if UK just turned every asylum seeker away and broke away from Schengen. Like Hungary for example. 2. That's really not a big issue monetarily speaking... 3. Member state's parliament has to pass any legistlation european parloament agrees on. Your elected politicians were part of making and agreed to every legistlation UK adopted because of EU. Another 3(?): Fishing is so small part of UK's economy that I am pretty sure the benefits from other aspects of the union greatly outweight the possible negatives of EU's fishing policies.
An Englishman in Prague, doing an international show, with contributors from other EU countries. A fine example. Or should it be EU Localities now? And here I thought American politics was complicated. Whew. My brain is spinning. LOL
Simon! Do a video about the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line! It's the bridge and tunnel system that crosses the Tokyo Bay. There's probably enough engineering in Tokyo to do a half dozen videos! Also, the US Interstate system! Also, I remember seeing a few years ago about a highway system going up the coast of Norway? I don't know anything about that but it sounds interesting!
@Aussie Pom It was project of the right leaning media and ultra wealthy. The average person was and will never get any benefit from leaving the eu. It was always going to be worse than being in the eu.
There's almost 0% chance EU will support Scotland leaving UK given they are already facing multiple potential breakaways across Europe. Spain currently fending off independence from catalonia being the biggest.
@@redghost5705 it's not the same situation... Scotland is an nation, a independent country recognized by most other countries including England... meanwhile, catalonia and other similar regions are not...
Mega project over centuries: The European canal system. I would find that interesting. It was vital for trade and movement before the railroads, and still maintains a place in the 21st Century. Perhaps the first true step toward European integration.
EU is often criticised for being a neoliberal organisation and /or market. There is truth in that but the EU:s market is very regulated as regarding social and ecological standards
Megaproject suggestion: Željava airport in the mountains, secret and largest underground airport and military air base in Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in Europe.
Out of the ashes of destruction, a better Europe has risen. Wonderfully phrased, Simon! I was born in Germany in 1990. I have never experienced a divided Germany. I am horrified by the thought that families had been torn apart from one day to the other. (By the way: How about a MP video about the Berlin Wall?) Today, I have friends all over the country and the freedom to travel anywhere, not just in Germany, but in all of Europe. Without borders, without the need to exchance currency (well, for many countries that is). I am grateful for this. We achieve peace not through nationalism and division, but through unity and understanding. We have seen 70 years of (mostly) peace in Europe. Let's hope we'll be able to keep it this way. As the former chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt once said: “Peace is not everything, but everything is nothing without peace.”
@@demoniack81 Actually, most of the time they are. The government was just too incompetent to impose any kind of clear majority mandate. The whole thing happened because Cameron wanted to distract his party from fighting amongst itself and had his bluff called. Then he skipped off into the sunset whistling while everyone else had to deal with the shit show he just created. The shit show is ongoing.
@@plugsocket9432 Most referendums have a threshold, say 55%+, anything below and it's a "let's start again". It was far too close to call, but as this government is incompetent with practically everything else (see COVID response) it's hardly a shock they were incompetent with this too.
The evolution of your enunciation and presentation has been quite a pleasure to witness. I have no doubt that someday you will be paid lots of money for the way you pronounce Empire
You probably didn't go to school in the UK. The British are really badly educated on the EU. German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish etc school kids learn all of this at school. Not the British. They're being kept uneducated on the EU and per by the design of the British school system. They're learning more about the totally irrelevant commonwealth than the EU.
@@rockattack Most Britons don't consider themselves European, at least among the older generations. That permeates all the way through everything and it shows. It's the same generations who have condemned the future ones to no longer benefit from the things they did such as easy, free movement around the place. And cheap holidays. The kind of people who hate foreigners but go to Spain twice a year for several weeks then complain the don't speak the Queens Fucking English! They're either unaware or don't care about their ignorance.
@@TalesOfWar hipocrisy and arrogance or just ignorance about the world around them.at leats they're not flat erthests or any illuminati extremist right_wind or left_wind movement.
Perhaps not a megaproject but certainly a side project... the story of the Canadian Avro Arrow airplane. Loving all your channels! Keep it up! OG business blazer!
The federal government in the USA has WAAAYYYYYyyyy more power over the American states than the EU has over European countries. For example: As we can see with the UK it is relatively easy (albeit painful) to leave; European militaries are attached to the countries, not the EU; every country has its own penal code and other laws with no equivalent on the EU level; etc. The EU is still a large set of international treaties plus a few competencies that have been delegated or duplicated. My guess would be that it takes another century for the EU to become a real federalist nation like the USA.
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.
Even more integration/unification is better for Europe. It's a shame that the UK left, but this paves the way for more cooperation. Maybe a full on federation? I'm all for it
It's not in the cards. Any EU federation would have to be formed after the different countries with differing values. Unlike the US, were the states are modeled after the US federal government you would have to build a federal state from unitary and federal governments with very different laws you can't really integrate into a single federation. No matter how much people argue this would happen (mainly the UK) it just can't happen because of the differences.
He says that the EU is between the US and China and therefore they must stick together, while they barely are able to defend themselves. Europe continues to get fat while the US still has to back them up militarily.
A possible megaproject or maybe side project could be Tornado, started in 1994 and finished in 2008 it was the first mainline new build steam locomotove in the United Kingdom since Evening Star which was built in 1960. It's a good story!
Sweet sweet watch time Simon! Keep killing it every day in every way, brother. I watch your channels for hours on end... Love all of your content on all channels, but the Blaze is the best 👍🏼
Our species has such a short memory; not even a century after a world war, yet so eager to start another. It is our responsibility to make systems like these functional. Use your power wisely, people.
55 thousand to serve half a billion people seems positively streamlined. The UK Civil Service is in excess of 400 thousand, and is desperately trying to hire 50 thousannd *just* to deal with the extra Customs paperwork caused by leaving the EU.
That was good think you, I don't think I've missed a single Megaproject. I love leaning about this kind of thing if I can make a suggestion I would love to lean the Abrams tank and its variation I love tanks lol
If the incredible Brexit chaos has achieved anything it is to put others off from doing the same. Although it's hard to imagine anybody making such a mess of it.
The EU needs to make it as hard as possible to leave otherwise others might decide to go it alone anyone who thought brexit would be a quick divorce knows nothing of politics
@@MrGlenn442 Indeed. This is what happens when you get career politicians who were born with a silver spoon in their arse like Boris. They've never lived outside of the bubble they currently inhabit so have no idea what their decisions actually lead to for the regular every day folk. Because they've never been one.
@@Thecoincollector. It was clear from the very start, whatever Boris and FaragE claimed (and still do) that the EU would not give the UK a better deal than a EU member. that would be suicide. And it is absolutely common sense and nobody should have fallen for it.
“We recently did a video on Megaprojects all about the Marshall Plan”. Uh... no you did not. --- Edit Oct 28: yes NOW there is a video about the Marshall Plan
@@stevedaenginerd Simon's channels are great. I especially like Geo/Biographics. But Megaprojects is I think the one with the most mistakes. Like they have at least 2 video's with a thumbnail in which they mistake "it's" for "its". That is an error you're allowed to make at kindergarten...
@@gueman99 But at least the people had a choice to enter the EU rather than the colonial period when the weak governments spent years wringing their hands in fear that their more powerful neighbours might decide to come and stomp them again.
I lived my hole life in Belgium. Got good history education, visited the European Parliament,... Still learned a lot from this video of how it actually works.
Thank Simon for the conclusion. It is not perfect but better be together working on a brighter future than being alone. - " the problem is not immigration but integration". Everyone and every states (poor or rich) can bring something valuable to a round table as long as equality is being observed and key to a healthy debat. Peace.✌🇫🇷🇪🇺
Would definitely like to see a megaproject video on ITER! Not the least of which because I have a few friends working on the project, but also because it's one of the biggest scientific megaprojects of current time!
@Jack Ripper in that case I'm interested, and I hope simon considers it, seeing as he's using "Mega Projects" in a broad spectrum, which is awesome. It gives him the freedom to explore all kinds of wierd and wonderful projects that we wouldn't have otherwise hear of.
Here’s a kind of obscure one for you, red river Floodway. When it was built it was the largest earth moving project second only to the Panama Canal in the 1960s
How about a Megaprojects about PC's? How they went to fill up rooms and are now little gadgets we keep in our pockets that fit in our pockets?... our cell phones have more computing power in them than the landing units that launched men into outer space
The thing with "EU bureaucracy " is that it is very small in general. For example, the city of Paris has more employees Also, many pro Brexit voters did not vote against Bureaucracy in Brussels but in favour of bad bureaucracy in London
@@Crashed131963 We did vote for them. We vote for our members of the European Parliament who then vote on our behalf, exactly like we vote for our own MP's who vote on our behalf. Just because they're in it for themselves and don't give a shit beyond winning the seat doesn't mean it's undemocratic. Next you'll tell me we couldn't tell those filthy foreigners to fuck off after 90 days*. Spoiler. We could have, but chose not to. A decision made by our own leaders that the EU allows each member state to decide for itself on. * This is an example. I'm all for freedom of movement. It was a common argument against the EU that we had no control over our immigration policies which is 100% bollocks. Of course we did. It was just another scare tactic used by racist people.
@@Crashed131963 Now you have a city in London with people you never voted for running your country. House of lords, monarchy, only able to elect your one MP when there are 649 others, and what do you get out of it? A shit economy and a shit government. Something about Herd immunity? Burnt 5g towers? Us USAians can't talk though, literally same boat.
@@TalesOfWar Hope your country's representative vote will get the proper foreigner in charge of a foreign majority committee that will decide your country's policies? Like driving a car from the back seat.
Spain is, but is neither a founder nor one of the first to join after it founded, nor one of the last few to join so it got left off the list just like a middle child.
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You're leftist remain views on this video are outstanding. There are sooo many NEGATIVE things about this video it is also outstanding. There are sooo many negative things about the EU it is also outstanding. Quick question (1 of probably 1000 I could ask), why didn't you mention Ireland and the Lisborn Treaty? How they had a referendum and voted against it but the EU made them vote again until the EU had the decision they wanted? Not very democratic of the EU! Why do they have an anthem when they are not a country? I love your videos Simon and the team but for this video and your narrative i have just unsubscribed.
News voice comments section is nothing but right wing trolls, bots and knuckle dragging mouth breathers. 1000x worse than UA-cam comments.
@@mnichols1979 Bots???? Oh, that is the go to response for every comment you disagree with. Knuckle dragging right winger???? Err no, I really do not think so. Oh dear, you really, really do not like anyone who doesn't agree with you do you????
Wait now I am confused. The ad read was for Newsvoice but the end of the video said Ground news and they sort of sound like they do the same thing but are still apparently separate apps and I did not readily see a link between them.
What's the deal?
2:45 - Chapter 1 - A long held ideal
4:25 - Chapter 2 - Post WWII
9:05 - Chapter 3 - The EU
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Organisation
12:45 - Chapter 5 - The euro
13:40 - Chapter 6 - Budget
15:10 - Chapter 7 - Where is the money spent
16:35 - Chapter 8 - Brexit & the future
You should ABSOLUTELY make a video about NATO and the Warsaw Pact too.
Simon,
Three reasons we need a video about the Human Genome Project:
1. It was a megaproject. It even has project in the name.
2. There are few good UA-cam videos about it and it could bring new traffic towards your channel.
3. It was an important scientific and medical undertaking
Such a good suggestion!
Absolutely!👍
but it sounds dull
Yeah, Simon, you can definitely do better than the video from the Nation Human Genome Research Institute
@@zeroqp I trust Simon not to make it "dull."
He just set the course for having to explain the creation of Modern Asia, The USSR Collapse into Russia, The Establishment of North America, The Fluctuation of Tides in South America, The Rise of Australia into a New Western Nation... I see what you did here Simion
And the UN
I am totally up for this.
Also side note: Flattered you mentioned Australia. Generally we assume no one thinks of us. 🤣🤣
@@--enyo-- Us Canadians and you Aussies have a lot more in common than you think sister :P
Legendary legend, that Simon...
I actually think the history behind Australia is fascinating... between the indigenous peoples and the ones who were forced to live there by British rule.
I hope to be still alive when the United States of Europe will be established.
The 50000 EU employees is tiny in comparison to government bodies of each single Nation, the city of London alone total 91000 civil servants.
The little speech at the end was actually rather beautiful. I'm watching these videos in the background as I work and I had to stop what I was doing, tab back in and pay attention fully at the end. Thank you Simon.
Definitely a good mini speech. Also, major credit to the writer, Oliver Guiberteau for the speech. Simon read it extremely well, but the words aren't really his to take credit for.
Proud to be born in Romania grow up in Italy for 17 years, leaved in UK for 7 and left when they come out of Europe and now leaving in Estonia!
Living
UK left EU not Europe.
@@serchbloc2395 EU and Europe are used interchangably like US and America. And in the EU's case, it makes sense since the dedicated goal is the unification of the entire continent. A union from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
How bout a mega project on the east Indian trade company? Dnt think I've seen you cover it directly!
that would be cool.. or the formation of pakistan
@@juantelle1 *laughs in British*
The British or Dutch?
But yeah, I’ve been wanting to see this as well.
The Dutch East Indian Company yeah? Still the largest company that ever existed.
@@--enyo-- the Dutch one of course. It was so much bigger and more relevant
This was interesting, somehow we seem to forget the history of Europe. When we are united, we are a major player on the world scene....when not, we fight each other.
The Øresund bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden, where the half of the straits length is an actual bridge while the other half is a man made island and a submerged tunnel - so bridge pillars don't conflict with the entry path of Copenhagens Kastrup airport
Man you're killing it!!! 👍
That ending, so moving!!
Awesome job well done!!!👏👏
"Assistance from Soviet union" is called a gulag in Siberia.
yeah - not until you actually know how much efforts Soviet union put to rebuild eastern part of europe being fucking devastated to the core itself unlike US and England. But yeah gulags vodka and nesting dolls.
@@LazyPictures You forgot AK-47, товарищ!!
😂😂😂
@@LazyPictures Oh, really ? Can you enlight us ? You can start with saying where are you from. You know .. I am from Czech Republic. As it happened, leading powers somehow forgot to ask us and we become part of eastern bloc. About post war rebuilding and fantastic soviet effort, hm, where to start ..
First they FORCED us to refuse Marshall plan. You know, it would look really bad to accpet help from rotten capitalists. Then we went through epizodes of political murder processes, lockdouwn from outer world, shoting people who just did want to leave, labour camps, political prisoners dying in uranium mines ..
Oh, wait, uranium. We were particulary rich in uranium deposits. But hey, uranium is bad, radioactive and such thing, you know .. so soviets saved us from it and yes, that was SOME EFFORT. Trains full of uranium ore heading to the east ... somehow, they did not bother to pay for it. Then they decided that we are in danger, what danger I hear you ask ? You fool, WESTERN INVASION !!! So they invaded us - to protect of course. They literally pillaged places they chose to live. Their military bases ended up as ecological disaster, soil and underground water poluted with oil products, lubricants and who knows what else. Quite expensive revitalisation project, I have to say. Again, not a single coin from russians ... And list goes on.
It is already long so I make it shorter. We weren't in such a bad condition after WWII, then we experienced soviets, worse then locusts. They stole, pillaged and destroyed everything they could. After their very unwelcome presence, we ended up in unimaginable worse condition, then we were before.
I have to control my self to not being really rude, because imbecilic comments like yours makes me rally angry. Do some actual research, before you write something stupid please. Soviet effort .. yeah, right. I would like to see you to live through fantastic soviet effort and then see what do you think about it ...
@@OslikusPrime Yeah, soviets "helped us rebuild", using our hands, our materials and our money :D As the old people say: "We gave soviets grain and in return they took our coal"
Mega project: United Nations and its predecessor League of Nations.
LoN was the predecessor of the UN
@@duncanmcgee13 thats exactly what i said
Yeah, I’d like to see this!
Yeah. There should be a video about this topic, too.
LON was about elitists maintaining control in the newer modern world
As I'm born in 1997 in the Netherlands, I've never known a world without the EU and I can't remember a world without the euro. For me it's completely normal and how it's been all my life. It's mostly the older people who lived befire the EU and/or the euro, who want to go back to that time.
I do however agree with those people that the EU has some major problems. It costs way too much (for instance, the members of parliament earn absurd wages for the amount of work they do), it's very bureaucratic and it is not democratic enough. European citizens don't have enough influence.
But it has also done a lot of good: a single market, the GDPR, keeping peace in Europe, freedom to live, work and study anywhere within the EU/Schengen area (this is the most important one for me as a student), free mobile data usage, phone calls and texting within the EU, and much more.
Same! In Portugal (as far as i've seen) only the very old people think fondly of the time before the EU
@@saraviegas2141 And i think that might be nostalgia speaking too ^^'
The E.U didn't keep peace in Europe, there was the Balkan wars in the 90s.
Nothing is free....someone always pays, it just may not be you, but someone is
There is no need to listen to older people. They are filled with lies
And wickedness!
Huge thanks, Simon. By far, imo, your best Megaproject video to date. Just one small critic: you might have cited the names of the main founding fathers (Monnet, Schuman, De Gasperi and al.) but as a die-hard European since my youth in the early 50s, sharing evenly my life between London and Paris, this topic remains very close to my heart and has revived many heartfelt memories... like my dad proudly appending an "EU" sticker on the boot of the family Peugeot in 1964...
Great video Simon. Let's all work together for a better future.
As beautiful it sounds..as impossible it is. The humanity has the gift to corrupt everything it touches.. The most of it for sure. *:)
Another Megaproject I didn’t know I wanted. Thanks! Honestly these ones (CPEC, belt and road, etc) have actually turned out to be my favourites.
Soviet Union was a forced integration on basis if dictatorship and fear. While the European Union was a volunteer integration based on peace, democracy and economy
@@clancyjames585 Who said it did?
@Charles Yuditsky Yeah, like requiring you to make up your mind on whether you are a member or not, and not demand use of member facility after leaving.
Everything always depends on the era when the event took place. The era of colonization, for example, was not remembered by humanism at all.
in that way, the US has a lot more in common with the soviet union than it does with the EU, no wonder the EU existing triggers americans so much
@@gregs9210 I would say that is historically incorrect. US was mainly created by voluntary integration
Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular
Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?
Yes very intresting, another suggestion: Željava airport in the mountains, secret and largest underground airport and military air base in Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in Europe.
that giant iron mine in either norway or sweden might be cool too. the one thats so giant that they had to abandon the town above.
Already covered on several channels. That's how you know about them.
How many different channels do you have Simon, you absolute mad lad?!
This is a wonderfully succinct overview of a *very* complex organization.
@Rylee Hahaha! The EU commission is not less elected than the British PM.
@Sociable Netw0rker Is that some sort of role-play? Because I'm not aware of an institution with such a name existing and your comment seemed more appropriate in such a setting
@Sociable Netw0rker hahahaha what a pile of bullshit! Of course the EU has its own problems with tax havens not much difference to UK. But at least it tries to implement legislation to contain them unlike UK. In fact UK always jeopardized such efforts when still in the EU to protect Cayman Islands and the likes. And now some smart asses think it would be a great idea to turn the entire UK into one (Singapore at the Thames?).
But the actual point was not that but whether EU authorities are elected. And yes they are, directly (parliament) and indirectly (commission) via the EU governments which on their own are elected. Who btw. did elect BoJo? The people? NOPE! Only his party was elected by the people and they had a party internal election about who becomes PM. A PM in the UK is not even confirmed by a parliamentary vote like in other countries. So please don't play that stupid "unelected EU" record, it starts to get boring but it won't get less wrong!
@Sociable Netw0rker Not sure in which part of my comment I spoke about the Magna Carta. I'm sure you can tell me.
@@wanderschlosser1857 The whole point of the Commission is to be an independent and pragmatic problem-solving entity that proposes legislation. Future EC employees are tested through the EPSO exams before they get a job to choose those applicants with superior reasoning and communication skills. It is up to the elected politicians in the Council to tell the commission what to do, and up to the European Parliament as well as the member states to make the final decision on possible rejection and implementation of proposals. You can't vote for who gets to be a civil servant in your member state either so I never understood why people suddenly get so worked up when the can't vote on specific EU civil servants. Do you really care specifically which lawyers and economists are tasked with drafting, for example, recommendations to the Dutch government on adressing on the Dutch housing market and excessive mortgage debt? Also the commissioners are indeed still chosen through direct democracy anyway.
EU won Nobel peace prize in 2012, which shows it achieved the main objective. Making peace on the continent.
It contributed to peace on the continent. You also forget NATO and the obvious threat from the East bringing Europe together.
P.s. The Nobel Peace Prize has lost it's credibility. Any mong can get one these days
NATO brought peace not the EU and where was the EU during the Irish Troubles (1968-1998) that killed 3500 people?
@@plugsocket9432 The EU solves international problems and grievances with diplomacy and cooperation. The Troubles were a domestic issue which was caused by the English with the aggressive cultural destruction for many centuries, also Divide and Rule politics which backfired at the time of Troubles, and London didn't asked for outside help.
If you want to blame, blame London parliament and English. They voted on Brexit, against the will Northern Ireland and Scotland. They leave every colony in a mess, like India-Pakistan, Israel - Palestine, African colonies. They don't want to cooperate with no one. They deepened the Irish Famine, like Trump does it today with Covid in US.
Hope that Good Friday Agreement's achievements will remain! Hope that Northern Ireland and Scotland will be part of the EU again!
Can we all agree how nice it is that Simon always shows the logo of the sponsor so you can easily skip the sponsor talk
The EU sounds like a committee of committees.
But perhaps In a completely different way than most organizations. Usually the "committee on committees" norminates people to serve on the committees within the organization.
The EU sounds pretty fucking fantastic
The EU sounds like the best thing ever for us Europeans. Western countries get to become more competitive on the global scale, while Eastern countries get insane amounts of investments, grants, loans, jobs and opportunities.
@@andrasadam8256 unless you are Greece, or Italy or...
No different from most large nations. The council is the senate, the commision the government, the parliament, the parliament, and the supreme court the supreme court.
Suggestion: Grand Ethiopian renaissance Dam
Hey im from Richmond Va and i just want to Thank you so much for you video platforms. I watch all of them and I have learned so much. A great narrator can make learning fun and that's exactly what you are. Thank you Brother
Nice video. Learned a lot about European Union. Thanks Simon.
You not learned about the eu why do you think we leaving
@@craigdackiw1877 I'm talking at personal level, not UK. I'm not from UK.
@@craigdackiw1877 So why do you leaving? I could see many promises during Brexit campaign but I am not sure what worked as indented and what is still waiting for implementation...
@@grlt23 lets see 1: to stop unlimited eu people coming over taking jobs and homes off locals 2: to stop eu citizens from claiming child benefits for children not born or living in the uk 3: to stop the eu from making laws in this country 3:to stop eu courts interfering in the uk and finally to take control of our waters and stop eu ships from plundering our fish
@@craigdackiw1877 1. Immigration policy is mortly up to the member state to decide. There isn't much EU could do if UK just turned every asylum seeker away and broke away from Schengen. Like Hungary for example.
2. That's really not a big issue monetarily speaking...
3. Member state's parliament has to pass any legistlation european parloament agrees on. Your elected politicians were part of making and agreed to every legistlation UK adopted because of EU.
Another 3(?): Fishing is so small part of UK's economy that I am pretty sure the benefits from other aspects of the union greatly outweight the possible negatives of EU's fishing policies.
Fantastic video, that makes much sense. Thank you for the video.
An Englishman in Prague, doing an international show, with contributors from other EU countries. A fine example. Or should it be EU Localities now? And here I thought American politics was complicated. Whew. My brain is spinning. LOL
Member States* :P
He is scottish
@@hoffmankipkurgat5949 Try and find a Scottish person that will agree with you lol he's as English as you get.
es español
@@hoffmankipkurgat5949 Simon Scottish, born in southern England...
Things Simon has said that dictators have also said “We don’t have enough bodies already” *Allegedly*
Simon! Do a video about the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line! It's the bridge and tunnel system that crosses the Tokyo Bay. There's probably enough engineering in Tokyo to do a half dozen videos!
Also, the US Interstate system!
Also, I remember seeing a few years ago about a highway system going up the coast of Norway? I don't know anything about that but it sounds interesting!
I'm British. Brexit is one of the most shameful and stupid things my country has ever done to itself.
@Aussie Pom It was project of the right leaning media and ultra wealthy. The average person was and will never get any benefit from leaving the eu. It was always going to be worse than being in the eu.
imagine if Scotland now leaves the UK bc they wanna stay with the EU lol
Scotland is already out of the EU as it's part of the UK. They'll have to apply as a new member if they want to join, after leaving the UK.
There's almost 0% chance EU will support Scotland leaving UK given they are already facing multiple potential breakaways across Europe. Spain currently fending off independence from catalonia being the biggest.
@@redghost5705 it's not the same situation... Scotland is an nation, a independent country recognized by most other countries including England... meanwhile, catalonia and other similar regions are not...
@@m0shene I'm aware there very different. Its just my hunch that policy makers are over simplifying it.
@@redghost5705 that was a stupid point you made son
Your last words were very profound. Thank You 🙏
Mega project over centuries: The European canal system. I would find that interesting. It was vital for trade and movement before the railroads, and still maintains a place in the 21st Century. Perhaps the first true step toward European integration.
Megaproject: reversal of the flow of the Chicago River.
EU is often criticised for being a neoliberal organisation and /or market. There is truth in that but the EU:s market is very regulated as regarding social and ecological standards
really powerful closing statement, it truly is beautiful how far we've come
Megaproject suggestion: Željava airport in the mountains, secret and largest underground airport and military air base in Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in Europe.
Megaprojects: International Court of Justice
3:18
That would be quite a sight
14:27 that's my home city of Katowice!!! WOW totally unexpected. Absolutely love that shot ;)
Mega projects on the Superpit in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
You know it's a serious Simon channel when he sits in a dark, sombre corner.
Btw can we have Simon's basement? It seems quite spacious to house Dannie and Sam with "others" in it.
Out of the ashes of destruction, a better Europe has risen.
Wonderfully phrased, Simon! I was born in Germany in 1990. I have never experienced a divided Germany. I am horrified by the thought that families had been torn apart from one day to the other. (By the way: How about a MP video about the Berlin Wall?) Today, I have friends all over the country and the freedom to travel anywhere, not just in Germany, but in all of Europe. Without borders, without the need to exchance currency (well, for many countries that is). I am grateful for this. We achieve peace not through nationalism and division, but through unity and understanding. We have seen 70 years of (mostly) peace in Europe. Let's hope we'll be able to keep it this way.
As the former chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt once said: “Peace is not everything, but everything is nothing without peace.”
One problem with Brexit is that it never had a majority support, because almost one third of voters never voted
That's not how referendums work.
@@demoniack81 Actually, most of the time they are. The government was just too incompetent to impose any kind of clear majority mandate. The whole thing happened because Cameron wanted to distract his party from fighting amongst itself and had his bluff called. Then he skipped off into the sunset whistling while everyone else had to deal with the shit show he just created. The shit show is ongoing.
@@TalesOfWar A Majority is 50+1%.
Doesn't work that way. Leave won get over it.
@@plugsocket9432 Most referendums have a threshold, say 55%+, anything below and it's a "let's start again". It was far too close to call, but as this government is incompetent with practically everything else (see COVID response) it's hardly a shock they were incompetent with this too.
Megaproject: Appalachian Trail
Yes! The AT is awesome
Yes, please!
^ this please
The evolution of your enunciation and presentation has been quite a pleasure to witness. I have no doubt that someday you will be paid lots of money for the way you pronounce Empire
In high school we actually have to learn all the things that have been said in this video and a many more details...
You probably didn't go to school in the UK. The British are really badly educated on the EU. German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish etc school kids learn all of this at school. Not the British. They're being kept uneducated on the EU and per by the design of the British school system. They're learning more about the totally irrelevant commonwealth than the EU.
I applaud your high school then.
@@rockattack Most Britons don't consider themselves European, at least among the older generations. That permeates all the way through everything and it shows. It's the same generations who have condemned the future ones to no longer benefit from the things they did such as easy, free movement around the place. And cheap holidays. The kind of people who hate foreigners but go to Spain twice a year for several weeks then complain the don't speak the Queens Fucking English! They're either unaware or don't care about their ignorance.
@@TalesOfWar hipocrisy and arrogance or just ignorance about the world around them.at leats they're not flat erthests or any illuminati extremist right_wind or left_wind movement.
You Dutch?
The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, not 1991. Germany united on October 3,1990.
Perhaps not a megaproject but certainly a side project... the story of the Canadian Avro Arrow airplane. Loving all your channels! Keep it up! OG business blazer!
Please do the B-2 Stealth Bomber as I'm unable to differentiate between that and the Lockheed F-117 without looking it up!
The EU itself often uses the Treaty of Rome as its birthdate, FYI.
The Netherlands stayed neutral in ww1 too!
Sort of...you did allow Corporal Hitler's lot a big say in how you did things, not least participating in his Final Solurion.
Please look into the Titan 1 missile bases! Gregg are massive and super complex underground installations that aren’t super well know about.
Every US state: We gave the federal government too much power!
European countries: Hold my beer.
The federal government in the USA has WAAAYYYYYyyyy more power over the American states than the EU has over European countries. For example: As we can see with the UK it is relatively easy (albeit painful) to leave; European militaries are attached to the countries, not the EU; every country has its own penal code and other laws with no equivalent on the EU level; etc. The EU is still a large set of international treaties plus a few competencies that have been delegated or duplicated. My guess would be that it takes another century for the EU to become a real federalist nation like the USA.
US are FAR worse
@@KonradTheWizzard because the US started as a federation of states, we didn’t lie to voters about being a trade union then formed an army
@@Lost_Pikachu the EU didn't form an army though....
@@Lost_Pikachu EU don't have army :)
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video. Hope more videos are coming.
Even more integration/unification is better for Europe. It's a shame that the UK left, but this paves the way for more cooperation. Maybe a full on federation? I'm all for it
It's not in the cards. Any EU federation would have to be formed after the different countries with differing values.
Unlike the US, were the states are modeled after the US federal government you would have to build a federal state from unitary and federal governments with very different laws you can't really integrate into a single federation.
No matter how much people argue this would happen (mainly the UK) it just can't happen because of the differences.
He says that the EU is between the US and China and therefore they must stick together, while they barely are able to defend themselves. Europe continues to get fat while the US still has to back them up militarily.
The Netherlands was also neutral during ww1
And during WWII. Although that didn’t keep Hitler from invading The Netherlands.
Super interesting video! I don’t think the Marshal Plan vid has been released yet but can’t wait when it is!:)
A possible megaproject or maybe side project could be Tornado, started in 1994 and finished in 2008 it was the first mainline new build steam locomotove in the United Kingdom since Evening Star which was built in 1960. It's a good story!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado
Soon there be a new P2 now that would be interesting especially with all the faults they are having to correct from the originals
@@brotherneil65 I know the guys who are doing it, it's gonna be an interesting machine.
Sweet sweet watch time Simon! Keep killing it every day in every way, brother. I watch your channels for hours on end... Love all of your content on all channels, but the Blaze is the best 👍🏼
It is a pity that he forgets to mention that the Netherlands was also neutral during the First World War.
Does that mean the Dutch just stood by and watched?
@@TheHarrip Depends on which side you look at it.
@@TheHarrip Why not? Unless dying in trenches is a noble thing.
Would anyone notice if they weren't?
I think he is leaving out countries that were invaded anyway despite of claiming neutrality.
This was fantastic! I want to know more about the electrical grid too!
Our species has such a short memory; not even a century after a world war, yet so eager to start another. It is our responsibility to make systems like these functional. Use your power wisely, people.
Thank you for covering this important subject.
55 thousand administrators with an 8 billion budget? Sir Humphrey Appleby would be delighted.
55 thousand to serve half a billion people seems positively streamlined. The UK Civil Service is in excess of 400 thousand, and is desperately trying to hire 50 thousannd *just* to deal with the extra Customs paperwork caused by leaving the EU.
That was good think you, I don't think I've missed a single Megaproject. I love leaning about this kind of thing if I can make a suggestion I would love to lean the Abrams tank and its variation I love tanks lol
Or any really cool Tanks lol how vague am I right
If the incredible Brexit chaos has achieved anything it is to put others off from doing the same.
Although it's hard to imagine anybody making such a mess of it.
The EU needs to make it as hard as possible to leave otherwise others might decide to go it alone anyone who thought brexit would be a quick divorce knows nothing of politics
@@Thecoincollector. Nah, the UK is messing all over itself all on its own. It doesn't need any outside assistance to make things difficult.
@@MrGlenn442 Indeed. This is what happens when you get career politicians who were born with a silver spoon in their arse like Boris. They've never lived outside of the bubble they currently inhabit so have no idea what their decisions actually lead to for the regular every day folk. Because they've never been one.
@@Thecoincollector. It was clear from the very start, whatever Boris and FaragE claimed (and still do) that the EU would not give the UK a better deal than a EU member. that would be suicide.
And it is absolutely common sense and nobody should have fallen for it.
The real chaos has still yet to come, when they are really out
Nice to see you blazing on your other channels :)
“We recently did a video on Megaprojects all about the Marshall Plan”.
Uh... no you did not.
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Edit Oct 28: yes NOW there is a video about the Marshall Plan
That's what I thought too. I have wanted a video on that topic for awhile.
@@CausticLemons7 Will probably be the next video then. They screw up things like this quite often :-)
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 No! Not Simon & Co.! They never make mistakes like that! lol
@@stevedaenginerd Simon's channels are great. I especially like Geo/Biographics.
But Megaprojects is I think the one with the most mistakes. Like they have at least 2 video's with a thumbnail in which they mistake "it's" for "its". That is an error you're allowed to make at kindergarten...
@@gueman99
But at least the people had a choice to enter the EU rather than the colonial period when the weak governments spent years wringing their hands in fear that their more powerful neighbours might decide to come and stomp them again.
Great video, this one. You almost brought me to tears :-)
I lived my hole life in Belgium. Got good history education, visited the European Parliament,... Still learned a lot from this video of how it actually works.
That closing was awesome Simon :)
Thank Simon for the conclusion.
It is not perfect but better be together working on a brighter future than being alone.
- " the problem is not immigration but integration".
Everyone and every states (poor or rich) can bring something valuable to a round table as long as equality is being observed and key to a healthy debat.
Peace.✌🇫🇷🇪🇺
A wonderful idea( l ). Hopefully we've all wised up enough to stand together.. and not to corrupt it. *:)
Would definitely like to see a megaproject video on ITER! Not the least of which because I have a few friends working on the project, but also because it's one of the biggest scientific megaprojects of current time!
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This man did not just save my geopolitical exam!! thank you so much for this well explained video!
Maybe a mini project on the Canadian Avro Arrow!!
Try "Side Projects" bro, it's another of Simon's channels, that covers projects that aren't Mega😏
@@barendterblanche5634 I'm aware but it could be a mega project based on just the amount of people that worked on it.
the diefenbunkers are more canadian than anything, we just dig holes to deal with nukes
A great achievement with a weird outcome. One great Europe united under a common language called English, which is not European no more. Sad
@Jack Ripper in that case I'm interested, and I hope simon considers it, seeing as he's using "Mega Projects" in a broad spectrum, which is awesome. It gives him the freedom to explore all kinds of wierd and wonderful projects that we wouldn't have otherwise hear of.
Here’s a kind of obscure one for you, red river Floodway. When it was built it was the largest earth moving project second only to the Panama Canal in the 1960s
How about a Megaprojects about PC's? How they went to fill up rooms and are now little gadgets we keep in our pockets that fit in our pockets?... our cell phones have more computing power in them than the landing units that launched men into outer space
The moon isnt outer space doofus.
Great video x
I wonder if they can have the European Union express card you know like the American Express but for Europe... 🇪🇺
Revolut?
@@marsjfields no like EU express card
This video makes me wanna hug my fellow European siblings...
The thing with "EU bureaucracy " is that it is very small in general. For example, the city of Paris has more employees
Also, many pro Brexit voters did not vote against Bureaucracy in Brussels but in favour of bad bureaucracy in London
The British people did not want a City in Belgium with people they never voted or running their country.
It's A simple as that.
@@Crashed131963 Should have shown up for those European Parliament elections then.
@@Crashed131963 We did vote for them. We vote for our members of the European Parliament who then vote on our behalf, exactly like we vote for our own MP's who vote on our behalf. Just because they're in it for themselves and don't give a shit beyond winning the seat doesn't mean it's undemocratic.
Next you'll tell me we couldn't tell those filthy foreigners to fuck off after 90 days*. Spoiler. We could have, but chose not to. A decision made by our own leaders that the EU allows each member state to decide for itself on.
* This is an example. I'm all for freedom of movement. It was a common argument against the EU that we had no control over our immigration policies which is 100% bollocks. Of course we did. It was just another scare tactic used by racist people.
@@Crashed131963 Now you have a city in London with people you never voted for running your country.
House of lords, monarchy, only able to elect your one MP when there are 649 others, and what do you get out of it?
A shit economy and a shit government. Something about Herd immunity? Burnt 5g towers?
Us USAians can't talk though, literally same boat.
@@TalesOfWar
Hope your country's representative vote will get the proper foreigner in charge of a foreign majority committee that will decide your country's policies?
Like driving a car from the back seat.
Thank you for this amazing video!
No mention to Spain? I thought we were in the EU :thonking:
Spain is, but is neither a founder nor one of the first to join after it founded, nor one of the last few to join so it got left off the list just like a middle child.
He didn’t list every member.
You should update this, that brexit happened, set in stone, all of that.
SuggestIon: The Death Star from Star Wars.
If Biographics can do King Arthur on April 1, then surely this could become a reality on April 1, 2021.
NO MORE Brexit
Also, a Brit talking about the EU is always a treat!! 😂😂 Smashed that Like button!! 👍🏼
Building a good institution is MegaProject.
how long untill there is a vote on Brenter or Brejoin?
Hey Simon,
I am really enjoying your videos.
How about a Megaprojects video of Mount Rushmore?
9.3/10 it definitely contains elements of blaze just not enough.
Thanks 🌞