JackalUK

That's cause the UK is fed up of propping a failing organisation.

Also we are the 4th largest contributor.

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KGGeorgiou

Germany, along with france, have been lending money to countries (such as Greece), but with stupidly high interest rates.. which they know that the countries in debt will never be able to pay back, this means that they need to lend of other countries to pay the debt to germany. its an everlasting cycle

Death_switch

I don't know if the Euro will die out completely but it is inevitable that some countries will leave it in the future. It won't be limited to the poorer countries either, Germany will have to break apart eventually.

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sfaune92

I meant to vote "I live in the EU and think the Euro will survive." cause England is in EU, but my home country (Norway) isn't, so I voted the second option...

I think the Euro will survive, but I'm not too sure about Spain and Greece, unless there are some serious bailouts and proper planning among the governments in those countries.

slipknot5678

Hasn't Ireland improved? I know the country is still worse off than it was before 2008, with higher rates of unemployment, protests, etc. but the banks have been 'saved' haven't they? That doesn't help much for Ireland but I think that would help the broader EU crisis which would lead to an improvement for everybody.

To my knowledge, a few effected countries were showing signs of improvement. I guess that doesn't help too much since Greece is ****ed and Spain is increasingly getting more difficult (not to mention that obviously a huge portion of average Spaniards have had just as large of an impact), along with the growing pessimism regarding the European and by extension world economy.

Cianyx

To be fair, the richer EU nations have also been granting massive haircuts to PIIGS so it's not all rainbows and unicorns there either

seeneyj

Australia ftw

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Le Fantome

The EU will collapse, America will descend into anarchy, everybody will kill everybody, and then it'll all start over again.
It happens every once in awhile, cause...
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It's the circleeee of lifeeeeeee.


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jambi_mantra

They contribute loads, that's why they're not participating because they stand to lose a lot when it inevitably falls apart. If they don't include themselves, they don't get bumraped by the consequences.




The single currency massively helped your manufacturing sector make you the economic power house you are atm.



This



Yea the most over priced nanny state, wooo!

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mybanez

How can Spain have 1 in 4 people not working?
What a shithole.

CoreysMonster

It also caused inflation and overtaxation.

The Euro was supposed to be worth around double what the old Deutsche Mark was worth, and by now everything costs the same numeric price that it did back in the 90's with the DM. Did wages go up? Of course not. Sales tax rose from 15% to 19%, and all social and educational programs had their budgets slashed even further than in '89 when the reunification happened.

EDIT: and don't even get me started on the cigarette tax

EDIT2: They also rose the minimum retirement year from 65 to 67, and claim they don't have plans to raise it even further, but everybody knows that it's impossible for the current generation to pay for the older one's retirement, and most likely people in my generation are going to live their lives paying a huge ****ing chunk of money into the freaking retirement fund and won't ever get a penny of it back.

GERMAN RAAAAAAGEEE.

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mybanez

Shits over priced because we earn lots and everyone works. The tax rate and tax on cigarettes is ridiculous but I think it's a big reason why we are so rich.

Hydra150

yourops shite

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jambi_mantra

All true, I don't deny it. That's why lumping successful countries in with countries like Spain with a single currency was doomed to failure.




That's a highly simplified and inaccurate reasoning. It also goes no way to explain why with the Aussie dollar as high as it is, prices haven't come down, instead they've gone up.

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mybanez

As you may have noticed from my previous post I know very little about this shit.
I say just shh and buy shit.
The only one that gets me is cigarettes.

jambi_mantra

The most ridiculously priced things here are:
1)Alcohol
2)Video games and other media (130 dollars for CoD? lol )
3) Fines. ($207 for not having a valid train ticket? $180 for speeding? wtf)

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WCPhils

Why do video games cost so much over there?

Hydra150

becas theyr evil n the govmnt neds mor monyey

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jambi_mantra

Honestly, I have no idea other than because they can charge that much. I assume it's because years ago when the aussie dollar was worth ~£2-3 it made sense. If a game is £40 then simple currency conversion would make the Australian price roughly $100. But now the dollar is worth more, the price should have gone down. I can buy a game from the UK and ship it here and still save about $15-20

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