Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany?

surely that's against the spirit of european integration.

but germany's consent to the takeover of approximately 500 german petrol stations by the polish orlen was in the spirit of european integration.

excellent, so there's a precedent. hard to know why 'consent' would be needed though unless they were government owned, or the government there held more than 50% of the shares.

what is the afd view on this?

here....i found something (translated by google:)

www-presseportal-de.translate.goog/pm/110332/5871838?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

in no european country can you take over 500 gas stations without government consent.

You can in the UK, (it's happened several times over the past few years) and in any case, I can't see why any government would refuse a business based in a friendly country.

It seems Germany is fine about companies there taking over businesses in other countries but somehow against companies in other countries taking over ones in Germany.

This reminds me of Micron who helps French businesses take over ones elsewhere but blocked the purchase of a yoghurt factory by a European company on grounds of 'national security'

@BB the link doesn't work. A link to the original would be fine; if there's stuff I don't understand, I can translate it at this end.

This "One rule for us another rule for everyone else" attitude is why the majority of Brits voted to leave the EU.
The EU is a corrupt self serving group that favours Germany and France.

38% of the electorate, however what's done is done, and the economy is doing better than other European countries.


It's actually written into the EU constitution; clauses that favour certain countries over others. Of course Italy is a major EU country too so it's hard to see why its a problem for them.

Perhaps they think that they should buy but not be bought. I remember howls of outrage in the media there when a UK insurance company bought a German one. They seemed to take it as an insult that the company sale was that way round and not the other.

And their afd fascists must be seething about this; Scholtz certainly is.

A lot more than voted for Labour in our recent General Election and Labour won with a landslide!
So, by that measure, the Brexit vote was also a landslide!


Which just shows that we were right to vote leave, despite the problems that the EU continue to throw at us..... these bad losers are so stubborn!

Okay.....here it is:

presseportal.de/pm/110332/5871838

Thank God for that.

Brexit was a mess; better to have renegotiated. And nobody voted to leave the EEA.


Better to have stayed in and abused all the rules to our advantage like France and Germany do.

Sooner or later the r*SSian involvement in that and the failed Scottish referendum will be in the public domain.

Really? Despite the fact that tactic is very "Un British" we Brits would never be allowed into that club...... it is only for France and Germany.

Na ja....who could forget the honorable Mrs. Thatcher....who protested with her handbag every closer unification of the continent like a common currency.

Milo, I fear that dislike was two-sided! ;)

The UK is too different to mainland Europe.We should never have even applied to join.De Gaulle kept us out for years, because he knew Brits were not compatible and would cause problems.He was right and we were right to leave as unwelcome guests.......

Yeah....now all know better....*nods*

(Even as I liked Mrs. Thatcher, she was something else! :)

We were in a position to buy both countries but were too short-sighted,

Perhaps that's what we will do. France is howling and squealing that their cheating tender bids for power stations are being taken seriously and the contracts are being enforced; it's costing them billions. They should have bid a price they could realistically do the job for, rather than underbid and hopoe for handouts later. Micron is weeping now.

At least German companies were sensible enough to sell off their rail/bus franchises quickly and at a loss, fire sale prices. The unfortunate buyers are finding not only that the contracts won't autorenew as they'd hoped and in fact franchises are being cancelled when they don't meet the service level agreements that they signed up to.


We in coal mining communities didn't. She was very pro-single market though.

And now the EU is crumbling, with a fascist block in the east and internal strife.

My take is.....the bureaucratic outer mass, which grew so much in the last decades, is crumbling....for the better! The inner core, the foundation of the EU, will be revived and survive, because its needed.

(Hey, we got our capitals back:)

Hard to know what that means specifically.

If anything, the two core countries are both places that are analogue countries in a digital world