Is the European union a mistake?

[Traitorfish]

haha nah it is the EU's purpose to ruin culture.

Do you actually mean that, or is it just more hyperbole on your part?

 

[Yared]

European Cultural Capital

 

[Tekee]

Do you like French cheese.
Its not banned in the EU

Oh so it is only serbian culture that is banned in the EU.

Do you actually mean that, or is it just more hyperbole on your part?

I dunno what a hyperbole is. All I know is that Serbian news said that we would lose our rakia if Serbia was in the EU. Rakia, the most popular homemade drink, would be illegal because of EU regulations.
This is regulations destroying culture.

European Cultural Capital

Yeah, because the bureaucratic regulations destroyed real culture Europe needs even more bureaucrats to designate "Annual Cultural Capital of Europe"... useless

 

[Traitorfish]

I dunno what a hyperbole is. All I know is that Serbian news said that we would lose our rakia if Serbia was in the EU. Rakia, the most popular homemade drink, would be illegal because of EU regulations.
This is regulations destroying culture.

Hyperbole

/hiperbli/

• noun deliberate exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally.

- Oxford English Dictionary

Basically, what I asked was whether your assertion that "it's the EU's purpose to ruin culture" is you knowingly exaggerating, or do you really believe that the EU was specifically designed to suppress regional culture? Whether or not it does is not really the point; I'm asking if you believe that's what it is for.

 

[knez]

eu sux

 

[Tekee]

Basically, what I asked was whether your assertion that "it's the EU's purpose to ruin culture" is you knowingly exaggerating, or do you really believe that the EU was specifically designed to suppress regional culture? Whether or not it does is not really the point; I'm asking if you believe that's what it is for.

ummmm.... ok.... yeah... yea yeah yes!! Ok I got it! EU is made to suppress regional culture! Especially Serbian (if it joins)

eu sux

I do like how EU common border zone makes it easy to travel. But I wouldn't want to live in EU... it just has helped me be a tourist.
Slava Slavyane!

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[Oruc]

Yes, in the sense that they destroyed what had stood on these foundations...

Thats right, we wouldn't have modern Europe if not for them we'd all be idiots like varwnos, people seem to forgot that.
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[Yared]

Do you have a source, Tekee?

 

[RebelYeller]

Of course the EU is a mistake. Thats how they get you. You Europeans need to get your states out while you still (maybe) can. Say too long and eventually you'll never be able to escape. Believe me, us southerners joined a Union once and we still haven't managed to get out.

 

[Godwynn]

Of course the EU is a mistake. Thats how they get you. You Europeans need to get your states out while you still (maybe) can. Say too long and eventually you'll never be able to escape. Believe me, us southerners joined a Union once and we still haven't managed to get out.

Ha, yeah, remember the last time you did try to get out of it? God, a great time was had by all.

 

[Silurian]

Ok I got it! EU is made to suppress regional culture! Especially Serbian (if it joins)

Do think that the most important thing about Serbian culture is home made moonshine

 

[GinandTonic]

Do think that the most important thing about Serbian culture is home made moonshine

Oddly the moonshine of the other nations continues to exist, and in the same grey legality or tacit toleration by the authorities. In fact the EU seems to have had no impact on the french prune, the portuguese medronia (sp?) or even cornwalls under-the-bar scrumpy.

It's just a tabloid "they're after our pints" nonsense.

 

[Yared]

I think the EU has some regulations regarding the naming of certain beverages, ie, Vodka not produced in a certain way (from potatoes I think) has to be marked as Vodka from X.

 

[red_elk]

I think the EU has some regulations regarding the naming of certain beverages, ie, Vodka not produced in a certain way (from potatoes I think) has to be marked as Vodka from X.

Right, except potatoes thing. Vodka is known in Europe since XIV century, long before potatoes.

 

[Yared]

The recent success of grape-based vodka in the United States has prompted traditional vodka producers in the Vodka Belt countries of Poland, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden to campaign for EU legislation that will categorize only spirits made from grain or potatoes as "vodka" rather than spirits made from any ethyl alcohol – provided, for example, by apples and grapes.[18][19] This proposition has provoked heavy criticism from south European countries, which often distill used mash from wine-making into spirits; although higher quality mash is usually distilled into some variety of pomace brandy, lower-quality mash is better turned into a neutral-flavoured spirits instead. Any vodka then not made from either grain or potatoes would have to display the products used in its production. This regulation was adopted by the European Parliament on June 19, 2007.[21]

Sorry, add grain to that too.