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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1710 on: September 26, 2013, 11:45:46 am »

Syrian refugees arriving on Italy's shores...once more.
Fun fact is Greece can apparently hit the immigrants and break their bones, Spain can 'mistakenly' crash against their boats, Malta can refuse them...
But Italy has to take them all on Lampedusa, which, by the way, is prone to collapse.

Hey Europe, are you going to lend a hand or what?
Oh, and a government crisis...which is happening. It really is happening. If Berlusconi goes down and the rest of his party goes against the government, everything falls and...how cute, Democracy fails once more.

And everyone will vote for someone else, like Grillo...
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1711 on: September 26, 2013, 12:21:10 pm »

"Een", "Vier", "Vijf", "Acht"
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1712 on: September 26, 2013, 12:28:57 pm »

Syrian refugees arriving on Italy's shores...once more.
Fun fact is Greece can apparently hit the immigrants and break their bones, Spain can 'mistakenly' crash against their boats, Malta can refuse them...
But Italy has to take them all on Lampedusa, which, by the way, is prone to collapse.

Hey Europe, are you going to lend a hand or what?
Implement a quick European sheme. You'd be surprised how quick they'd be to offer another solution.

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Oh, and a government crisis...which is happening. It really is happening. If Berlusconi goes down and the rest of his party goes against the government, everything falls and...how cute, Democracy fails once more.

And everyone will vote for someone else, like Grillo...
Not impressed.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1713 on: September 27, 2013, 10:35:12 am »

Yeah, I still understand why Spain, Greece and Italy agreed to that European rule about refugees.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1714 on: September 28, 2013, 12:06:30 pm »

Nikos Michaloliakos got arrested for implied connections to the murder of a left-wing musician from phone records. Also connected to 32 other criminal cases including another murder, violent assault, extortion, blackmail, racketeering and more.
Golden Dawn's second in command is still evading arrest.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1715 on: September 28, 2013, 12:33:15 pm »

A repetition of the Egyptian process, but hopefully with a more beneficial outcome :D
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1716 on: September 28, 2013, 01:11:55 pm »

Nah not really, this is simply a crackdown on an extremist organization, not a military coup on the government.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1717 on: September 28, 2013, 01:28:29 pm »

Golden Dawn's popularity with Greek cops and soldiers could change that.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1718 on: September 28, 2013, 01:40:49 pm »

Popularity crashed after the recent elections, they lost about half of their support, which never was really high to begin with.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1719 on: September 28, 2013, 01:58:23 pm »

Golden Dawn's popularity with Greek cops and soldiers could change that.
The guy in charge of the Greek intelligence surveillance unit was related to a Golden Dawn MP, they had to get rid of him first to get them arrested; they don't have a problem removing them at all.

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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1720 on: September 28, 2013, 03:52:44 pm »

Popularity crashed after the recent elections, they lost about half of their support, which never was really high to begin with.
Huh, somewhere I heard they'd get about 20% if elections were held now - then again, German media also claim that all Syrian rebels are Islamists. They're weird like that.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1721 on: September 28, 2013, 03:59:54 pm »

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Popularity crashed after the recent elections, they lost about half of their support, which never was really high to begin with.
Huh, somewhere I heard they'd get about 20% if elections were held now - then again, German media also claim that all Syrian rebels are Islamists. They're weird like that.
Technically, 90% or more are. Would be strange if they weren't in a 90% Islamitic country.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1722 on: September 28, 2013, 04:03:34 pm »

That's not much of a down, even assuming it's not a statistical fluke.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1723 on: September 28, 2013, 04:05:46 pm »

Still, the other findings are pretty significant too.
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Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« Reply #1724 on: September 28, 2013, 04:26:21 pm »

Radical Islamists, not Muslims.
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