European Empire building, the 4th Reich or ruination?

[Lost_BMW]

Don't the fk-wits ever learn?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18237811

how can a country like that be allowed to join the EU and the Euro? Croatia is next. They'll just let anyone join. No wonder we're all in the st.

[AJS-]

A country like what? Corrupt, unstable, no currency of it's own.

Quite easily I should think.

[Mikeyboy]

AJS- said:

A country like what? Corrupt, unstable, no currency of it's own.

Quite easily I should think.

Yes, surely Its no different from many of the other natiosn they let in back in the day. Just they wrote down how corrupt they are.

[iphonedyou]

Standard EU practice: let tiny, unstable countries marry their economies to larger, more stable countries. Then watch the fireworks a few years later.

I don't understand it either, for what it's worth.

[Lost_BMW]

Mikeyboy said:

AJS- said:

A country like what? Corrupt, unstable, no currency of it's own.

Quite easily I should think.

Yes, surely Its no different from many of the other natiosn they let in back in the day. Just they wrote down how corrupt they are.

Yep, and that's turned out really well!

Anyways, what could go wrong?

[Jasandjules]

AJS- said:

A country like what? Corrupt, unstable, no currency of it's own.

Quite easily I should think.

Not tooo different to here then!?!?

[DJRC]

Dont mention that name around Dubrovnik, its highly likely it will get you lamped.

He ordered the shelling of the city from the heights. They really really really *really* do not like the guy.

[AJS-]

DJRC said:

Dont mention that name around Dubrovnik, its highly likely it will get you lamped.

He ordered the shelling of the city from the heights. They really really really *really* do not like the guy.

Indeed. Puzzling choice of war criminal to cosy up to when he was on the Serbian side. But he did go with local nationalism in the end, and handed the EU a bite sized province. You'd almost think they had no principles at all sometimes.

[Guybrush]

If they join, a bit later the rest of the gang can start bailing them out. How will they benefit the EU if they were to join?

[Blib]

BBC Article said:

An audit by accountants Price Waterhouse, carried out in 2010, raised questions about the running of the country's Prva Banka, or "First Bank", which is controlled by the Djukanovic family. The audit suggests that most of the money deposited at the bank came from public funds, while two thirds of the loans it made went to the Djukanovics and their close associates.

Perfect candidates!

[Puggit]

Guybrush said:

How will they benefit the EU if they were to join?

This is the crux of the matter.

I assume by providing cheap labour in the established EU countries.

[Hugo a Gogo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18268062 ECB says no countries ready to join

[Puggit]

Hugo a Gogo said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18268062 ECB says no countries ready to join

It's never stopped them before...

[The Nur]

It is the beginning of a manufactured end.


They will introduce as many financially unstable countries to the Euro as possible, creating a catastrophic failure in the near future. Once this is complete and the global economy is on the brink of collapse, Hitler (or some other such type person) will rise from the dead and lead the Greeks to a glorious future as leaders of the common market.

Or something.

[DonkeyApple]

Puggit said:

Guybrush said:

How will they benefit the EU if they were to join?

This is the crux of the matter.

I assume by providing cheap labour in the established EU countries.

Yup. It's a good model and has proven itself infallable.

The tin pot economy joins the EU. Instantly they get to borrow money from the EU at new vhastly reduced rates which allows them to go on a huge spending spree. The local people become more wealthy and use the money that trickles down to go out and buy goods from the EU. At the same time property prices boom and people start spending this money as well.

It can't possibly fail.

[Lost_BMW]

Blib said:

BBC Article said:

An audit by accountants Price Waterhouse, carried out in 2010, raised questions about the running of the country's Prva Banka, or "First Bank", which is controlled by the Djukanovic family. The audit suggests that most of the money deposited at the bank came from public funds, while two thirds of the loans it made went to the Djukanovics and their close associates.

Perfect candidates!

I hear they were saving up to buy Greece.

[Lost_BMW]

Blib said:

BBC Article said:

An audit by accountants Price Waterhouse, carried out in 2010, raised questions about the running of the country's Prva Banka, or "First Bank", which is controlled by the Djukanovic family. The audit suggests that most of the money deposited at the bank came from public funds, while two thirds of the loans it made went to the Djukanovics and their close associates.

Perfect candidates!

I hear they were saving up to buy Greece.