For Ukraine, that just makes sense. Most of Ukraines trade is with countries using the Euro. They are in Europe and actually border the Eurozone with Slovakia. Romania is working hard on adopting the Euro too. Obviously Poland and Hungary also have to adopt the Euro at some point, as they are EU members without an opt out. Ukraine wants to join the EU, so it has to also agree to adopting the Euro at some point.
Most certainly. A great parade should have fireworks.
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GM is not a European manufacturer. The Volkswagen ID3 is about the same size as the Bolt and sells pretty well for example.
The EU just probed into Chinese EV makers to figure out what kind of subsidies they get in China and then added those back on top in form of tariffs. You know a sensible approach.
Also no they are not more populare then what the West can produce at the moment. At least not in the EU. BYD got below 3.5% market share in the EV space in Germany.
The automotive industry is why Germany has such a bad time economicly speaking. At least in the last five years or so. Car sales in the Europe(EU, UK &EFTA) were 15,805,752 in 2019 and only 12,963,614 in 2024. Obviously car manufacturers prefer cheaper factories in eastern Europe over the more expensive German ones, hence you see them shrinking staff. For the suppliers it is even worse, as a lot of them are specialized in combustion engines. With BEVs doing what they do, that means mass layoffs. That is why German automotive industry only employees 761,000 workers today. In 2018 it was 834,000.
At the same time Germany is able to do much more then just automotive and those sectors are able to grow. Hence you see stagnation.
In terms of democracies in the Americas only Canada and Mexico do not have proportional representation.
There is a massive issue with that data. Namely that it only looks at people, who actually have a job. Generally speaking employers prefer full time workers over part time. Obviously somebody working part time is still more productive, then an unemployed person. In France 52.8% of women over 15 work, in Italy it is 41.3%. Then you get things like unemployment, which tends to be much much higher in the south.
That is why Spain is working on reducing the work week. It lower the high unemployment rate.
Looking at quite a few reactions from other countries, a lot of them seem to want to brain drain the hell out of the US.
It is originally from the Iron Front a social democratic organization to defend the democracy of Weimar Germany. The three downwards facing arrows are for Communism, Nazisism and Monarchism. It has been adopted by a lot of anti facists groups since.
They want a cheap work force to steal wealth. That can be done by having a lot of supply in other words natalism or it can be done by lowering demand using technology. They obviously go for both.
There are a lot of problems with that. First of all just looking at the elderly is a problem. There are also children, which do cost a society quite a lot of resources. With a low birth rate that group is becoming smaller and smaller. Right now that dependency ratio is at 41.43%. That is actually incredibly low. The US is at 53.88% and Japan is at 69.94%. That is dependent person per worker.
Then the assumption of not keeping up with certain services. Although that is true, there is another site to it the video completely ignores. The population is shrinking and the country has a lot of high quality infrastructure. That means low housing prices, as they are already built. No need to built new railways, streets, sewage systems and the like.
That also goes for the economy. Constant worker shortages, mean the most competitive companies will pay the highest wages and out compete weaker ones. Therefore the average worker will become more competitive.
One important thing here is that South Korea has an incredibly low fertility rate. 2.1 is replacement level. So 0.7 means each generation is 2/3 smaller then the previous one. However most places in the world are above 1.4, which would just mean 1/3 less people per generation, which makes it a lot more manageable. Also again migration. The world is still above replacement level of 2.1.
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Actually it is even worse then that. Trump has called Netanyahu to ask him to keep the genocide going, so Harris looses the election. HE is openly calling for Israel to finish the problem. Biden for all his faults in this, has actually send aid to Gaza and has been at least rhetorically pushed for a ceasefire.
Latest pole was 57% for the Euro and 41% against with 2% undecided. To be fair that is the EU asking and it might be different depending on the pollster and the poll is a year old, but they are certainly not fully against it, so it will never happen.