European unity tested by recession - EUX.TV Report on March 1 EU Summit

An informal summit of EU leaders on Sunday sought to ease tensions between eastern and western countries of the European Union. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/106390.pdf

Speaking in this report are Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, where car maker Saab has filed for bankruptcy.

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[kangurupt]

! Im sick of this anti Europe bullshit! Put those British euroceptics without beer for a couple of days, to see if they start to think like intelligent people!! The EU  a united, free, democratic peaceful, beautiful, lovely, Europe,- is for the best interests of the UK

[opalen903]

Capitalism is bad, bad, bad aswell. I say follow the mix of Sweden, it is a mix of capitalism and some other ideologies fundamentally based on Social Democracy. It works great here IMO.

[badsign1980]

the problem in europe is not of lack of production but excess, we dont have then a place to sell our products thats why many companies go under, and competition is heavy and also why farmers give their products away to africa and destroy them on the street and wehycountrys can only fishh a certain tonelage and produjce certain measure, entering the eu is like entering a new country where the country must produce what is in need, and nothing is in need anymore, unemplyment will go up

[opalen903]

Sweden's system isn't socialist, it's social democratic. And what you said is a kind of theory. Compare the living standard between a Swede and an American for example. Which one has higher? The Swede. That is because of social welfare.

And I agree, the comment sucks, it's far too little space for arguments.

[Gutenberg1]

I don´t agree with you on your views about Socialism. Socialism is the worst form of society that ever had been. Why the hell should motivated working people pay for those who just want to enjoy the social benefit. The original idea is good, i.e. to protect the society from poverty but the realisation sucks. The money that I pay as tax, I will never see again. It´s thrown out.

I also don´t agree with you on the US but the place here is too small to give arguments :)

[opalen903]

That is not what I ment. I didn't say we need to follow Sweden's immigrant policy. But we should follow the Swedish welfare model. It's the best in the world.

And yes we have very high tax, something that is necessary right now. But tbh, I think the United States should pay everything. They created this crisis. They must pay back. I don't care if it bankrupts the whole US, we will not pay for the crisis they created.

[Gutenberg1]

so have you ever thought about it, that you have this "social" modell, because you give 60-65% of your salary as tax to the state?

[Gutenberg1]

you mean leading millions of illiterate immigrants from africa and irak into our country, and when they take over our country, raping our women, robbing the citizens, then give a sh*t about it and calling everybody racist, who tries to speak about these problems?

No, i don´t think, Europe should follow the swedish modell.

Otherwise: most countries would collapse under such tax burdens, like you have in sweden.

[dandan8787]

haha, so you think that the world is in balance right now? ....youre blind man...

[opalen903]

And wtf is that supposed to mean?

[toothy84]

You need to separate what you think you know from actual fact. Like all the other scholars making their clever points on youtube, you really don't know anything, and that is why you are afraid lol.

[toothy84]

you suck at writing in English lol