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@eintaluj saidActually, the EU is basically a secularised Roman Catholic project ( an attempt to reconstruct something along the lines of the fairly benign Habsburg "liberal autocracy" ). It's generally been the Catholic countries that have favoured "ever closer union"... along with religiously mixed Germany, which does so in part for obvious historical reasons - though it's also notable that the pre-1989 West Germany was much more Catholic than historic Germany, since most of the historically Protestant regions had ended up in the Communist East, and that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, one of the EU's founding fathers, was a devout Catholic. Four of the six countries that signed the Treaty of Rome were majority Catholic; the other two had sizable Catholic minorities.
However, I have one idea as well. Perhaps what is going on in Europe concerning Poland should be considered as a tacit attempt to convert the Catholicians into Protestantism. Again that religious war that was kept centuries ago.
Although there is Euroscepticism in some Catholic countries at some times, this is usually situational, e.g., modern anti-EU feeling in Italy can largely be attributed to the fact that the Italian economy was shackled twenty years ago to an unsuitable currency; in Poland, still devout Catholics reject the recently secularised values of the western part of the continent.
Historically Protestant countries, by contrast, have been generally much less committed to the EU and certainly opposed to its centralising tendencies. Only Finland, Estonia and Latvia have been fully committed to the project, and that is surely because they have a threatening neighbour to the East. The Dutch think the EU should be a mere trading mechanism; the Danes and Swedes declined to join the single currency; the Norwegians and Icelanders never joined at all (and neither did Switzerland, majority Protestant until the 1970s); while we in Britain left. This doesn't really surprise me. After all, Henry VIII's reformation was the first Brexit vote!
-Removed-Clearly not enough to stop voting Tory no, not even when they rip £80 a month from the larders of the poorest of us.
You need to decide if you dislike populism or not dive. Or is it populism when you don’t agree with the policy and democracy when you do.
The fact that the Labour Party has a frustrated scout leader in charge does not make Johnson any less of an idiot than he obviously is.
@kevcvs57 saidWhat? You seem not to understand that it follows you must treat with respect also those nations who have different views on sexuality. It also follows you have no right to suppress those minorities who have such a culture that some minorities inside that population are suppressed. Besides, I have NOT presented the argument you ascribe to me in your comment. You are slandering again, in the present case, not only POland but also me.
Treating people with respect regardless of gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, religion etc is not culturally dependent, it is simply the right thing to do.
The argument that nations have a right to oppress their minorities is a non argument.