Countries which Trump tries to persuade to leave the EU

Posted by vladgrinch

30 Comments

  1. Austria is already expensive as hell, leaving the EU would make it much worse. And Hungary has a similar problem iirc.

  2. Austria – hard pass

    Poland – hard pass

    Italy – hard pass or breaks into two

    Hungary – Orban flies for his life to Moscow

  3. Nothing_Special_23 on

    Yeah…. sorry to break it, but Hungary and Poland are too poor to leave the EU (no offense to anyone), they simply can not afford to leave even if they wanted to.

    In rhetoric, EU is a union is a union of 27 equal member countries…. but in reality, it’s more of a three legged pedestal, one leg is Frnace, one leg is Germany, one leg is Italy, and the rest of the countries form the top. You remove one of the rest, the pedestal still functions, but you remove one of the legs and the pedestal falls…. or to put ot simply, without any of the three main member states, there is no EU. Without Italy, there is no EU, as simple as that.

    That only leaves Austria, which is in a very centre in the EU, closely integrated with Germany, so again, no, minimal chances of that happening either.

  4. One thing we can thank Brexit for is it basically killed Euroscepticism as a political force. If even a very large net contributor the EU got this fucked by leaving, it’s just never gonna happen

  5. AlwaysBeQuestioning on

    Italy and Austria aren’t leaving, they got the euro and Schengen Area and all. Plus Italy was one of the first countries in the pre-EU agreements. They’re both at the heart of Europe.

  6. That would be good to stop promoting ideas of the orange crap. And even more when it’s helping the Russian dictator.

  7. Doing Vlad’s work for him in the name of largely impotent nationalist movements that have no clue how to even comprehend the economic and regulatory benefits of the EU.

    Brilliant. Having worked with EU regulations (admittedly over a decade ago) on pharmaceutical development and manufacturing at least, they are among the best written, clearest, and most modern in the world.

    EC standards for product quality and manufacturing are similarly quite good for consumers and surprisingly simple for industry to follow. Very few loopholes and arcana like you’ll find in the US or even Japanese regulatory environments. Again though, this is just cGMP, not necessarily labor or other regulations.

  8. As an EU citizen, i guess it would be political better if hungary leave the EU. So some interest against russia get easier through Parlament

  9. I get why he’s interfering with Poland and Hungary, as it’s next to Russia and they want their influence on it. What about Italy? What sneaky deal he has on the line for pushing them out of the EU?

    I guess he also wants EU to be completely dismantled too. It’s interfering too much with his tech billionaire buddies.

  10. Leaving the eu would be akin to suicide, and all of europe knows that

    Russia and america are yellous of our higher standard of living

  11. To cut off the Balkans from the EU for his master Putler and then he can easily cut off the Baltics as well.

  12. Isn’t Poland one of the biggest beneficients of EU funds? I don’t know what Donaldinho is smoking but they aren’t going anywhere.

    Not that the other ones are…

  13. Italy – they would go bankrupt without EU.

    Poland – would hugely slow down their growth and investment from EU funds.

    Austria – ton of companies in the eastern EU.

    Hungary – idk? Their biggest export partner is Germany, so wanna see, they would also have hard time. But they would probably deepen their ties with Russia and China instead.

  14. CostGuilty8542 on

    it should bre treated like a criminal act against the EU and hold the US administration accountable for it , like Putin for the war in Ukraine, same type of terrorists just different language

  15. The “anti-woke” countries; Poland won’t leave the EU no matter how much the government hates gays. Soviet oppression for Poland is a living memory and a horror they will never allow to return.

  16. How is this acceptable? Like.. do we just watch as us try and Split as apart and do.. nothing? How is this not a hostile act? Honestly if EU does nothing with this.. we deserve it