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News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [671]

Bulgaria doesn't particularly want it however empire building is empire building.

Never mind that they've defaulted twice.

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Perhaps less 'market' and more levelling up

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [415]

If Jesus ran a wine merchants (a missed opportunity for Him, given certain skills), he'd serve tiny amounts to taste and always put a bad one in the mix so the better ones stand out.

News / Will Elon Musk apply for political asylum in Poland or Russia? [39]


Neither. One is an insane, drugged up would-be Bond villain who does Nazi salutes, the other is a low-IQ sociopathic megalomaniac.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [671]


Or is it a problem
Anywhere else in Europe except parts of the Balkans. If Bulgaria enters the Eurozone it will be Greece squared.

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They aren't particularly authoritarian as an organisation (at least no more than you'd expect a trade association to be) however yes, they're mired in crippling bureaucracy and have a ridiculous librerum veto which strangles progress.

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Not my favourite specimen of humanity, but even fanatical tyrants can have good taste in wine.

Gevrey-Chambertin is of course cheaper than Le Chambertin and there's never a bad bottle.

In 199-whatever when the French had their bicentennial of their murderous revolution, there was the official wine of that, a Marsannay with a tricolour on the bottle. It was pleasant enough and we drank plenty however if you tasted it next to a good Marsannay the difference leapt out at you right away.

Something to watch out for with French wines

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News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]


China owns them, and is just sitting pretty and watching everything in r*SSian and the US unfold to their advantage.

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News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]

He probably fell out of a window.

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So not Gevrey-Chambertin.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

@Alien
Nor did anyone else, since it's made up.

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I tend to prefer them from the other side, Côtes du Rhône and further north. A lot about the variety and depth. Marketed differently too so you can find some excellent wines at reasonable prices

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News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]


They're centre-right.

News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]


True, however Harvard is in the top ten worldwide so it's likely that any victims of trumpetism will want to go to another that at least is in the top 50.

Really, given how bright the cohort of students is that trup is bizarrely excluding, I'd expect universities slightly further down the league tables to be competing to get some of them.

News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]


Is he still in Moscow?

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]


Sikorski is by far the best alternative to Tusk.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

The Italian language is too soft for the dogs to respond well to, apparently.German works better.