Ever heard of SOLVIT, Your Europe or FIN-NET?
No? Join the other 97% of Britons who have not heard of those Single
I have discovered this from the Eurobarometer 'Options and Experiences of Citizens in EU-25', all 157 pages of it.
And so to other gems I have unearthed:
Cypriots are the least keen on worker mobility, with 57% considering it positive, and the Danes the keenest - 90%. We lurk towards the bottom at 63%.
Austrians are not enthused by student mobility (63%), and it would seem do not want the Universities of Klagenfurt,
Our French friends are not big on free trade (fancy...), with 26% thinking EU open competition is a bad thing. The Danes have obviously worked out that mercantilism went out with square wheels - 88% approve. Likewise, the Gauls are the most likely to think competition etc has been bad for consumers and the Cypriots the reverse. I despair of our Gallic chums sometimes.
Elsewhere, the French, Belgians and Latvians think that the single market has had a negative impact on prices. I suspect the French and the Belgians are getting it mixed up with the euro, but tant pis.
On worker mobility, the Poles, Slovaks and Czechs (all 79%+) come top of the class for seeing that it is good for employment. The Germans are bottom at 42%, closely followed by the Austrians, Luxemburgers and the French. So, just who are the 'good Europeans'?
When it comes to shopping, it is looking bad for corner shops in
On internet shopping we do quite well, although a yes to a cross border net buy in search of a better price or quality is still rather odd. Still, a mere 17% of Magyars with an internet connection would do so. Digging deeper, the Swedes are the most paranoid about credit card safety in e-commerce contexts, while for us it is language barriers.
Moving swiftly on, the Slovaks and the Baltic Trio are the most prepared to work in another country, with the Greeks, Spaniards and surprisingly the Cypriots at the other end of the scale.
The British are the most prepared of the Big Five to consider retiring abroad (hello Ma C), while the Greeks will have none of it. Surely the Hellenes must get fed up with all that warm weather. I believe
There's more, much more, but that's enough for now.
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100% of gorillas are bargain hunters.
this is a truly a Gibbonian review of perceptions of our european bretheren.
Re Sweden liking foreign students? Was it not the foreign minister of Sweden who said she looked hoped the muslims would treat catholics well when they were the majority?
re Luxembourg shopping - cross-border shopping is a bit likley there is it not?
Also Germans can't be against credit cards for use in online shopping; they don't have credit cards in Germany!
C its hardly suprising that eastern europeans are all in favour of the movement of labour , most of the buggers have moved here.
Also Germans can't be against credit cards for use in online shopping; they don't have credit cards in Germany!
self explanatory isnt it mr slicker?
Im against axe murderers thats why I dont invite them around for afternoon tea.
Has anyone else noticed that Helen Mirren looks like an exact replica of Meryl Streep? They could be twins.
Also, someone said that Janet Street-Porter has been arrested. If true, what for?
All sorts of strange doing with our European neighbours, it must be said.
Janet Bull, as she was born, here's the tale: "Broadcaster Janet Street-Porter has "completely denied" racially abusing a neighbour. The former I'm A Celebrity star and newspaper editor has been arrested, interviewed and released on bail".
Rather unkindly the Met refer to her as being 59...
Can't see the similarity between Mirren and Streep myself. Both fine actresses though, although I prefer Mirren.
Verity,
Apparently, JSP had a bit of a slanging match with some coloured neighbours.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6270055.stm
If you look on the front page of The Torygraph this morning, you will see a picture of Helen Mirren that could also be a picture of Meryl Streep. They are identical, Croydonian. In fact, I am now suspicious that Streep, with her immense gift for doing accents, is actually Helen Mirren.
Re Street-Porter - How awful in today's dictatorial Britain that you can't even have a colourful slanging match with a neighbour without being styled a racist. This racist garbage is way, way out of hand.
TONY BLAIR AND THE THOUGHT CONTROL POLICE: I accept your enormous ignorance about the world, but I will let you in on a little secret and you are going to feel very silly: Every race in the world is racist to some extent. It doesn't mean they want to kill or humiliate their neighbours. It means they have noticed certain strands running through their culture.
For example, in Singapore and Malaysia, the three races plus Other (that's us) get on very well - although intermarriage is very rare indeed. But if you are talking to a Chinese friend, for example, about how a company has been dragging its feet about paying you, she will raise an eyebrow knowingly and say, "Indian?" If you tell an Malay friend that your maid knows a maid whose employers only give her one day off a month, she will raise an eyebrow knowingly and say with a smirk, "Chinese?"
If you tell an Indian friend that someone in your office forgot to pass on her phone message three times, she will raise a knowing eyebrow and say, "Malay?"
People are naturally suspicious of people outside their own tribe, regardless of being friendly with them and mixing around with them.
Many African tribes are racist about their neighbours
Tony Blair needs to get more knowledge of the world. He is terribly insular and ignorant. Dressing up in those overtight jeans to walk around Mr Bush's ranch tells us how infantile is his view of the world.
Still not convinced. I think Streep has a much harder face than Mirren.
A Helen Mirren gallery
and
a Meryl Streep gallery
Both are google image searches, in order to generate a lot of different pictures.
C _ you are being unkind to Streep: her face is not 'hard' but 'classic', 'nordic', 'sculpted'..... have always preferred her to the blowsy, vulgar, left-leaning Mirren. Altho, HM's comments now she has actually played HM suggest she is belatedly edging rightward....
Mirren is, or perhaps more accurately was, a Goddess / English Rose (albeit of part Russian ancestry), so tread carefully.
Re her politics, I would trot out the line about 'more rejoicing in Heaven' etc etc but for the fact I am still a Republican.
Although one might note that HM hails from Essex, and MS from the US equivalent, 'Joisey'.
On the racism row, has anyone seen the staggering comment from Downing Street today:
"A Downing Street spokesman later said that the UK response to the programme showed "there is no level of toleration in this country for anything which, rightly or wrongly, is perceived to be racist"." TB and his gang become more Orwellian by the day: it seems that it is now official government policy that anything which is perceived to be racist (even wrongly) is to be proscribed. This comment was not occasioned by J S-P btw, but by reaction to some mickey-taking in the Celebrity Big Brother House. Good grief!
How long until it hits the news that the whole BB row has been instigated by some racial agigtation group like MPAC?
not long I think.
Anybody notice the coments of apolitical incorrect judge this morning?
He was faced with somebody charged with calling a police doctor a "fucking paki"
the judge dismissed it as a waste of crown court time and told the defendant that next time he should call the 5'4" 15 stone asian doctor a "fat bastard" and save everybody a lot of trouble and expense
PH - I didn't think judges came up with things like that any more.
I once had a non-white neighbour. We used to speak - not in today's environment I wouldn't, can't be too careful, can you?
this one did
it was in the daily hate mail
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