Sure was just giving some tips becasue I felt something had gone wrong somewhere and I wanted to open the link. Imo no need to to copy paste the (whole) article: Your paragraph was fine.

I saw you inserted the link in your Post. So now everything is accessible. Idk which UI you use but I get these fields for a post:

-title name -link -image -summary

The pictures which go with the link, won’t always show for me, regardelss what I do.

Yes, tnx. And, FYI I can’t find any article or link in your post, just an image of the TV.

Do you have a link?

I’d forgotten about that. It’s always been so utterly suspicious. I remember watching some docs.

Just found this docu link

Technically the EU won’t " touch" the assets. They’ll use it as a collateral for a loan with a conditional future warreparation from Ruzz.

Add: And yes, this legal manoeuvring has no precendet afaik. It’s really very creative.

Iirc, Trump’s original bill contained zero help for ukraine and cutting like 20% of the US military budget and personnel in the Eastern Sentry . It was actually a Congresssional majority of Reps and Dems that then force changed the budget to include (some) help to Ukriane and to keep the US Mil Eastern Sentry budget as is.

And according to politico, Italy, Bulgaria, Malta and Czechia have joined the group of dissenting countries.

Yips, 800 M is more than nothing. But under Biden it was like 175 B just for context.

Could be the new account. We’ve had many new accounts delete themselves after 3 hours… Since @valmond was surprised about it all, I thought this OP might be his new account .

This your alt?

Since the beginning I felt like something was off about Sanchez. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy to hear that Vox lost in Spain etc. I kept some tabs on him. His doings and deals somehow rubbed me the wrong way, but I couldn’t put a finger on it and thought he was just a smart smooth talker and a bit opportunistic. But lately those scandals keep piling up. And yes, other politicians in Spain where wrapped in scandals too, during past elections. But this one seems one of the worse. I donno.

good covers with the orange man.

Holy shit! Der Spiegel really have been busy. Some really good ones too.

The Trumptator never smiles, that’s why he looks so odd on this pic.

Haha, oh absolutely.

Added; I just found a term which may describe our pov: Functional Federalisation.

FYI @buffalox : There appears to be a strong discussion about the question whether European Union is actually federation.

In my view, but that’s just a POV, it’s a form of (loose) federation because memberstates cede power to a supranational entity ( The EU). On the other hand memberstates still hold lots of Souverignity and self Governing power, and that would be an argument against calling it a federation in a classic sense

Anyway to avoid any prejudice I personally use the term "The European Project" .Whatever it is, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world.

So I’m not sure it is possible to do except by NOT having a central government.

Of course there are solutions The principle of subsidiarity is one. Doing projects between states like you said are another for example. Problem is always that people be people, and they like power and money. And also there is little any "piece of paper" can do against dictators with guns. No piece of law will probably ever change that, I’m afraid.

And state rights are systematically trumped by the federal government, and there is no reason to think the same won’t happen in EU over time, if we make a similar power structure.

Yes, true we must therefore build strong counter measures in this new European Federation. Its technically already a (co) Federation. But while we heed their mistakes we can prevent them.

let’s not copy the American declaration of independence.

Of course, I’m also having an allergic reaction to this title. and happy to see already 2 allergic comments apart from my own idea.

This was basically the scope of EL Pais, probably beacuse of recent developments.

The original declaration and the term United States of Europe was used by the founder of Europe Jean Monnet and coined by Victor Hugo in the mid 19th century or so. I’ve read somewhere that a Polish guy has used it even earlier.

Just look how bad it works in USA

How and why are you comparing this proposal to the US?!

There are many many federations in the world like, India Brazil, Switzerland etc.

“They” have a roadmap for it. Basically they call upon all “political bodies” to rise up, and expect the European Parliament to take a more prominent role.

I mean, If you ask me, it should become a more equal democracy, a Europe by the People for the People with a stronger and more direct citizen participation. We are all here when it happens and we can all share our pov and influence the outcome somewhat.