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Unite forces in a fair and democratic Union with an elder
pat, stronger and wiser sister - Holy Mother Russia. That sounds cooler and more aproppriate 
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Ooor... we just hook the Austrians on our nuclear energy and then make them our b... est friends.
Nuclear energy is sheet, bro, believe me. We have tonns of it. A janitor with a hangover accidentially spots the wrong button with his ass - and here you go, Sweden gets nuclear fallout. Czechland is such a nice place, you don't need to screw it over.
As for Ausrtia, well, they owe us Carniola, Kraina and Horutania. So feel free...
As for Ausrtia, well, they owe us Carniola, Kraina and Horutania. So feel free...
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We don't let janitors operate our safe and reliable nuclear power plants. That's one difference between West and East Slavs for you
But anyway, isn't this what you've been doing with Germany? First you flood them with cheap energy, get them hooked, and then exploit the advantage? Now we'll do it in miniature to our mini-german neighbour
We don't let janitors operate our safe and reliable nuclear power plants. That's one difference between West and East Slavs for you
You'd better get off your high horse
Japanese aren't known for being especially careless either, and yet...But anyway, isn't this what you've been doing with Germany? First you flood them with cheap energy, get them hooked, and then exploit the advantage? Now we'll do it in miniature to our mini-german neighbour
But gaz isn't the same as nuclear stuff. There's a nuclear plant around, some 200 km north of our vicinity, and we're not one bit comfortable about that. It's better not to play with fire.
Try doing it with coal, or sunflower oil. Or flood'em with beer
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You'd better get off your high horse
I am sorry, but Chernobyl was a disaster caused by extreme negligence coupled with an obsolete reactor type. Despite being obsolete and inherently unstable, the reactor had to be driven into the explosion by a series of insane (as in, totally reckless, like lighting a match in a gunpowder storage area) decisions made by the operators.
The Japanese disaster proved that modern reactors don't blow up and contaminate huge areas of land even in the worst possible scenario (like, being hit by 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a huge tsunami).
Last time I checked, the closest sea was several hundred kilometres away, and Central Europe isn't exactly known for earthquakes
So? I live less than a hundred kilometres from Dukovany nuclear station. I've been there as a tourist a few times, they have a very nice tourist information centre. The reactors are safe, they produce clean electricity and they help Czechia be relatively energy independent, at least in electricity production.
Since our friends the Austrians are irrationally afraid of nuclear energy, and the Germans just shot themselves in both feet by deciding to get rid of their nuclear power plants, it's a great opportunity for us to develop nuclear energy and supply it to our (slightly hypocritical) neighbours. For a fair price, of course...
Try doing it with coal, or sunflower oil. Or flood'em with beer
Coal? Buddy, coal mining is FAAAAAAAAR more controversial in Czechia than nuclear energy. Especially since the Commies liked coal so much that they turned North-West Bohemia into a wasteland that will take decades to re-cultivate into something resembling Earth surface again.
We have had a boom of solar energy recently, due to generous government subsidies for it (Germany did that, so being the little stupid puppies we are we had to do the same). As a result, we've built a two nuclear plants equivalent of photovoltaic panels, which means our installed solar power capacity is about twice that of France. Woo hoo. Who cares we're going to pay 30% more for electricity for the next million years...
Nah, nuclear is the preferred option. Our main energy company is planning to build many new reactors in the next 10-20 years and the plan seems to have political support.
(And I am sorry I am turning this into "Ask a Czech", but hey, it's close)
It's Kalininskaya AES here, and they too make ecscursions there and all that, everything seems nice and clean. We'd all prefer it wasn't there anyway, call it paranoia, but what we can't control isn't trustworthy.
Where you gonna keep the nuclear waste? In your backyard? Metaphorically speaking.
That wasn't serious about coal, of course. Well, at least it was your homegrown communists. "Russian" communists weren't any nicer to our envirinoment either.
That's a way to go, imo. My neighbours got almost completely self-sufficient with their new solar panels. I think the less centralized the sources of energy are, the better. There were plans in our council to install a couple of mini hydro stations on our small river to support some parts of our locality.
Should we apologise for ninja'ing this thread? Probably yes. Sorry, Austrian bro.
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omg, Comissar Rex! Was it as popular in Austria as it was in Russia?
Could you tell me something about the Austrian far right/New right political parties? I have some knowledge about the ideology of these parties in European context, but the only think I know about the Austrians' is that FPO and their splinter party could gain together ungodly high number of votes.
Also, what role should Austria in your opinion play in Central Europe?
Also, what role should Austria in your opinion play in Central Europe?
holy king
Deity
no, no nobody does. those regions are not german speaking anymore.
like in the rest of europe, no. "austrian" economics is a non-entity here. nobody even knows about this von mises.
indeed. as far as the yellow press and probably a solid majority of austrians are concerned those bloody easterners should stay the hell where they are .
euro scepticism is the mainstream opinion. imagine england and their "the eu is going to take away the queen from us" attidude and you know what it's like.
and yes, eastern criminals/workers taking away everything inlcuding the soil is a common fear.
no distiction is made between czechs and romaians though.
komissar rex was incredibly popular here. the italian version is pretty much unknown.
warpus
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That's funny considering that they are north of you and that the word "East" is in your country name
(for those of you playing at home, the German word for Austria literally means "Eastern Kingdom")
Quackers
The Frog
How seriously do you take Eurovision?
holy king
Deity
the fpö is a far right party that, incidentally mainly consists of kleptocrats.
when they were in co-power during the last decade all they did was try to get their personal hands on whatever was there for the taking.
resulting trials have just started.
they do in fact cover the fascist and extreme catholic right, but, as i said, when they were in power, personal gains trumped any kind of fascist idealism.
anti-foreinger populism is what gets them their votes, however.
their splinter party is virtually dead. politically.
as things stand they may well form the lesser part of a coalition wíth the övp again after the next elections.
the neusiedler see because i grew up in it's vicinity.
That's funny considering that they are north of you and that the word "East" is in your country name
doesnt matter. slavs. all of them.
it is a big tv event. i think media take it more seriously than the average austrian though. everyone's happy with that though and watches.
warpus
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holy king
Deity
ma who became a symbol for a generation of austrians suppressing its past by very publically and ridiculously supressing his past.
depends on who you ask.
also, hitler the man was austrian, hitler the german reichskanzler is of course more of a german identity.
