I argued against Europe having benefited from having colonies in the Europe community, which by its nature is eurocentric.

As I said Europe should pay for its crimes and I fail to see, that crimes need to benefit the criminal to be considered crimes. However that obviously makes reparations a lot more complex.

If colonialism has made those countries poor, then they should have gotten rich once they were no longer part of a colonial empire. At the same time countries which had large colonial empires should have gotten poor, when loosing their empire.

What we mostly see is that this is not the case. Portugal got rich after its empire collapsed. Spain was about as rich as its former colonies for a long time. France and the UK did not collapse after loosing their colonies. There are rich countries, which never did have many colonies or only small ones for a limited time, like Germany, Scandinavia or Switzerland. You also have Oman, which did not get rich despite having had colonies. We also have Africa, which only has Botswana as a country genuinly benefiting from no longer being a colony. However that was after diamonds were found inside Botswana shortly after independence. Funnily enough Botswana also asked to be a colony. Everybody else more or less failed to get rich.

That is not to say that colonial empires should not pay for crimes they comitted or return stolen artifacts. The benefits of colonialism were mostly going to a small elite in the colonial countries and cost the states a lot of resources, which in many cases would have been better spend on other projects.

Danke fürs ausbessern.

Ansonsten fallen mir eigentlich nur noch das 49€ Ticket und doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft ein. Aber du hast recht die Ampel war nicht sonderlich mehr sozial als Merkelregierungen vorher und Özedmir hat versagt.

Federführend war hier das Familienministerium und die Ministerin Lisa Paus, SPD.

Lisa Paus ist eine Grüne und nicht bei der SPD. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Paus

Russia has very few regional bases of power. Most of Russia is controlled by the Kremlin pretty directly and the parts of Russia lacking direct control also lack nukes. So the most likely option is a bit of maybe even violent infighting in the Kremlin and then the victor rules Russia. The Kremlin would also control nukes, so China is unlikely to invade.

Speaking of nukes, there are 8 launch sites for ICBMs, 3 nuclear submarine naval bases with nukes and two air bases with long range bombers aremed with nukes. So 13 locations need to be controlled. That seems rather possible to me. So honestly I doubt it will be too bad.

Ukraine has seen what the Russians are willing to do to Ukraine, so they themself will try to become part of NATO or the EU as much and as soon as possible. So it is pretty much NATO/EU or Ukraine building nukes, probably even both.

Russia would be weakend and needs some time to rebuilt. A defeat would mean that reconstruction period would take a long time. Looking at demographics and Russias economy maybe never.

Arte gets a bit of funding from the EU as well, to ad subtitles for some programming to Spanish, Italian, English and Polish. However outside the EU you sometimes need VPN to access to content.

euractiv.com is pretty good, but also privatly owned.

arte.tv news format journal is great, but only video and German and French public broadcasting. However they are very willing to have shows not talking about either country. However it is French and German and not English

theguardian.com is independent, but mixed in its reporting standards. Sometimes amazing sometimes just okay.

In Sachsen muss bis zum 3Februar eine Regierung stehen., sonst wird der Landtag aufgelöst. Wenn die CDU also die Brandmauer brechen will, dann wird sie es ziemlich garantiert vor der Bundestagswahl machen, wenn sie nicht im Januar stattfindet. Soetwas wäre für die Union deutschlandweit ein riesiges Problem. 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿

Qualified majority on foreign policy matters by the Council and a simple majority from the parliament. Also the option to defend the EU called out by the Commission to be able to act quickly.

Germany and France combined have about a third of the EUs population. Also the EU parliament is made up of different parties from the individual countries. Those parties disagree on a lot of things.

BSW ist fast so laut wie die AFD was Grünen hass angeht. Sprich es muss eigentlich Rot-Rot-Grün sein so Grüne 21%, SPD 16%, Linke 5% oder so, mit FDP und BSW auf 4%. Das wäre tatsächlich so ziemlich das Ergebnis der EU-Wahl 2019.

Erstmal verhindert es, dass Klimaschutzgesetze aufgehoben werden oder macht es wenigstens schwerer. Vorallem das Heizungsgesetz wäre in vier Jahren voll in Kraft und das Verbrennerverbot auf EU Ebene wird schwer zu entfernen sein.

Dann hat man auch noch Minister und die können einiges erreichen. Zum Beispiel sind die riesigen Ausschreibungen von Offshore Wind, Auslegung von Gesetzen um Erneuerbare schneller bauen zu könne, man kann bei Förderungen die Anträge entsprechend Grüner umstellen, die Bundesnetzagentur ist in der Lage einiges beim Stromnetz in eine sinnvolle Richtung zu leiten, viele Regulierungen und Normen kommen von den Behörden, Baerbock hat Leopard2 durch ein Menge Tricks mit den Amis an die Ukraine geliefert und da gibt es noch mehr. Es ist nicht der eine große Wurf, sondern viele kleine Dinge, die man da verbessern kann. Gerade der Verkehrsminister wäre für die Grünen extremst interessant.

Ich glaube aber der größte Vorteil liegt darin, dass die Union sich nicht zu laut über die Grünen beschweren kann. Schwarz-Grün stärkt tatsächlich oft die Grünen.

Mal sehen, aber die Grünen sind bei 11%. Damit wird man nicht Kanzler und das in ein paar Monaten zu drehen wird auch schwierig. Die einzige Chance zu regieren wäre Schwarz-Grün und das will Merz nicht gerne

Sounds like a good idea, but it would probably be better to have a military and multiple civilian agencies specialized in different fields. Like medical, physics, chemistry and so forth research agencies. Also in edge cases both agencies should be allowed to do research or cooperate on it.