Thread: Будущее Евросоюза.

Hanna, roughly, my post is about success of the True Finns party on the recent elections in Finland.
This party, though being left-wing, expresses nationalistic views (basically 'Finland is for the Finns'), it strongly opposes immigration and also they object helping Portugal and Greece to overcome their financial problems at their costs (they drink vine and dance all the time while we have to work in severe North - why must we help them?).
Also I mentioned recent successes of right-wing parties in Austria and Hungary and also I stated that Jean-Marie Le Pen in France now is more popular than Nicolas Sarkozy.
There are many people in Germany (including the politicians), as I heard, who also fight against helping Greece and Portugal at the moment and generally - against being a 'donor' for poor European economies.
I concluded that if this tendency spreads there will be no future for EU.

Originally Posted by Ramil

they drink vine and dance all the time while we have to work in severe North - why must we help them?

The retirement age in Greece is something like 55..... And it's always sunny and warm. Honestly, there is some merit to this argument. But the thing is; it doesn't matter what people think -- the EU is not democratic in that way... The idea of any individual country leaving EU is incredibly hard to imagine - particularly Finland which was completely in favour of joining -- they joined at the same time as Sweden 1996. Almost all Finns supported it. They use the Euro too.

It seems completely unimaginable that the EU would disintegrate.

(But then, that's what everyone thought about the USSR too.... So who knows??!)