News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Agreed, in a Europe ruled by nationalists Poland, without an influential EU, Poland will stand alone....again....tell me again, how that did work out for the Poles in the past.

And risking all that what Poland has right now....military security, financial help, economical support, a seat and a voice like everybody else at the european table....only because of some refugees? Or some rights for gays? Or some guaranteed independence for your judges?

Really? Is that worth it???

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Thing is....has always been.....nationalists don't work well together.....they will be quickly busy with sniping, insulting, attacking, backstabbing each other....getting out every historical argument they can find.....a pleasure to watch?

Salvini will hate Le Pen....Orban licks Putins boots, no matter what that would mean to Kaczynski...etc...etc...

There is no nationalist "internationale"....banding together for a common cause.....never has been, never will be. Their own short sighted advantage will be always more important to them. That's why leftists are always stronger, sad but true!

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Oh I dunnooo....even LePen isn't talking anymore about a Frexit....she wants to get elected sometime, heh:)

"...She is opposed to the EU membership for Turkey, in favour of a "privileged partnership",[22] and also opposes the accession of Ukraine to the European Union, while supporting association status.[23] She is currently campaigning for a referendum on France leaving the EU.[20] Despite have previously sought France leaving the body, she no longer supports a full exit, preferring instead a restructuring.[79]...."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Marine_Le_Pen#European_Union

I even agree with her about Turkey.....but I think Ukraine could need every help it can get.....and some reforms, why not? *shrugs*

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Why?

The UK haven't been an integral part of the EU....they were no founder....they only wanted in as they have seen how successful the EU had become....they have always demanded special treatments and privileges (and gotten!)...

I would rather bet you that we see Scotland and maybe Wales asking for membership in the EU before the EU gets abolished, heh:)

*ducks and runs*

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


....that is true too!

If you count Twitter, FB, Instagram, Youtube etc. too then we are really owned by these USians!!!

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

If you want to be nitpicking the whole media market of East Germany has been bought out by West Germany!
Does that count as "foreign owned"?

But if I'm honest most Ossis prefered West-Fernsehen and West-Radio in GDR times too...

(Besides the staff of the "Neues Deutschland" there hadn't been many complaints either)

But yeah...that's it....West-Germany had more than 70 years time to build their own media market...see?

All in West-Germany!

Friede Springer, Axel Springer Verlag, Berlin;
Bauer Family, Bauer Media, Hamburg;
Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer, Rocket Internet, Berlin;
Ralph Dommermuth, United Internet, Montabaur;
Hubert Burda Family, Hubert Burda Media, Munich;
Jahr Gruner Family, Hamburg;
Liz Mohn Family, Bertelsmann, Gutersloh;
Johannes Mohn Family, Bertelsmann, Gutersloh;
Stefan von Holtzbrinck and Monika Schoeller, Georg von Holtzbrinck-Gruppe, Stuttgart;
Dieter Schaub, Media Union, Ludwigshafen.

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Ever heard of the german RTL?

It is founded by and belonges to the RTL group, their HQ is in Luxembourg...it had been founded by Marcel and Francois Anen...with no German in sight.

They own today 68 TV stations and 31 Radio stations in France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and other european countries....

Does that count?

But I don't think that is the same....many Germans bemoan the quality of the program but not the ownership...even as RTL has now a second HQ in Cologne and even a german CEO! :)

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Which party do you mean?

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Which TV station do you have in mind?

I just read that TVN is owned by USians...(Fakty, TVN24...) and is seen as anti-PiS....
I know of "Passauer Neue Presse" which owns "Polska Press" and publishes about 20 regional papers with about 6 mio readers....
"Fakt" is the polish "Bild" or the english "Sun" and is owned by a german-swiss group....(who is often very anti-german:)....
German Springer owns "Newsweek Polska" who is also seen as anti-PiS....
Online portal onet.pl is owned to 75% by Springer, the rest belongs to some USian owner...it is seen as much more popular than polish owned wp.pl...

But that's about it....the big weekly's like "Wprost" are in polish hand, so are the other big TV stations (TVP1, TVP2 and PolSat)

You should one thing always keep in mind Iron, Poland is a market economy like Germany and only those can survive who sell enough. In the media case only those who find enough readers and viewers.

So it is logically that even if a TV station or a newspaper is foreign owned, they have to be successful in the polish market, gain polish subscriber and polish advertiser. So they have to tailor their product to polish expectations, wants and needs. So I'm not so sure why it is so important for you who owns what.

It doesn't really play a big role...and the majority of the publications and stations in Poland are still and always will be polish!

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


....we haven't occupied them! :)

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

Well....if you want to go far back....EVERYTHING!

At least in the US zone of occupation and with the money of the Marshall fund....they installed the law making...and supervised practically everything....no article could be published without their nod.....to find a job every German had to show a "Persil Schein", some proof that they hadn't been active Nazis....they rebuild West-Germany after their sense...these foundations are still strong and working!

Most Germans are still grateful for it....I can imagine that many Poles aren't angry about the EU help either?

Or the surveys and polls would look differently....but make no mistake...some Germans too wish to be "free" of USian influence....sadly the same people wish a closer relationship with Putin's Russia!

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


I would rather believe that the founder nations of the EU (Germany, France and NL) will always band together to form a Union, the arguments to build a strong alliance are as convincing now as they had been back then!

...and nobody likes the UK that much! ;)

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Yeah....and some Germans like to say the USians have to much power and influence here....*shrugs*

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Which "German way" are you talking about?

In Germany we have political parties spanning the whole field....from the radical left (Die Linke)...over the GREENS...to the nationalist right (AfD)....most people would see themselves somewhere in the middle....so the political landscape is build more often than not by some coalition between the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Demokrats (CDU)...with some LIBERALS (FDP) sprinkling...sometimes...if they make the 5% hurdle....mostly building on the lowest denominator compromise...

Do you mean that?

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


Who should abolish it?

I agree that not all governments will be always totally happy with it....so many rules and all that.

But there will always be several countries (strong center countries at that) which profit from that Union, which will stay together because of that....and that in turn makes that Union stronger...an undeniable advantage which will always be interesting and seducing for alot of smaller, naturally weaker countries....so they would want to stay close, even trying to become members...and so it goes on.

Great Britain is not an example for european mainland countries! Even GB looks to other countries for treaties and support, trying to gain alliances....in this world nobody can "go it alone"!

That doesn't mean that the EU won't change....after all it isn't some alien entity from Mars...it's members shape the Union! Maybe another country will leave...or another will be thrown out....should the majority wish so. But nobody will abolish it! No country has the power to decide such a thing....

So I guess you will wait and hope in vain....

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


The EU is to big to fail....you are not...sadly! :)

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


Hmmm....I just read that one-third of American troops during WWII were German-Americans...many of them fightin in the european theater, liberating Europe....I wonder what they would think and say....

digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=aujh

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]


What? How?

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

You know that the Sovietunion was a multiethnical entity? With masses of brown and muslim people?

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]


Decoration?


Of course not!

It could become painful once Poland pays more in.....

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

....there is still the little problem with the nukes!

Accept it Crowie, there won't be any big war in Europe anymore....nobody is that suicidal....

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]


....with what army?

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

There was even a kneefall....

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]

Visegrad members like Serbia so much they even support it's EU membership....

europeanwesternbalkans.com/2019/10/04/visegrad-group-supports-accession-of-serbia-to-the-eu/

News / Poles call for EU reforms. [67]


I believe there was a wreath....but not directly a verbal apology....

News / Chances of Poland in case of war between EU (ie western Europe) and Visegrad Group ? [80]

Brussels will just make a deal with Moscow...

*ducks and runs*

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]

.....at least an interesting topic again....

History / Why Was D-Day So Significant for Poland ? [266]


I don't think so....

It weren't only the boots on the ground, but the sanctions and the boycotts which made it much harder for Germany to get ressources....not to mention the daily bombing which chipped away constantly at the war machine...

Not to mention that the western forces were much easier to surrender too....all these forces kept in the East, with no inclinement of surrendering, I doubt the Russians would had made it into Germany.

I could imagine a "standstill" in what is now Poland...on the old "default lines"...

News / A Polish u-boat calls for help? [16]

True....heh:)

News / A Polish u-boat calls for help? [16]


Interesting....Google says it differently:

Submarines were first built by Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebel in the early 17th century (1620), but it was not until 150 years later that they were first used in naval combat. David Bushnell, an American inventor, began building underwater mines while a student at Yale University.