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> Yes, and we liked it. The Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyri

> Yes, and we liked it. The Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, or, in short the "Copyright directive" was from 2001. You adhered to that on joining in 2004. The current proposal build on and extends that, so, in conclusion, you didn't actually have that up until now. > See how countries are represented in the EP. Fortunately another poster did your homework for you: "In the countries with 10 million population, you have roughly 500k people per MEP. In Germany & France, it's 850k." But regardless, MEPs are part of European parties, which, to exist, need to represent a cross section of EU countries. EU matters are sometimes instigated by countries, but signed off on by international political blocks. There are anti-EU parties for you to vote on. > On top of that, our country is economically tightly tied to Germany and France and their investors A terrible thing that, employment and economic stability. Fortunately, you can elect a government that throws them out, together with the EU, and nationalise all their property and do it your way. Venezuela did exactly that, and you could join them in their glorious ascent to complete sovereignity. > The EU has just shown everyone that it will absolutely and purposefully destroy anyone Citation needed, and I sure hope you're not thinking of "Brexit" as some sort of example here. > The whole thing by itself has nothing to do with nationalism! Except for the "our people" and the "noble blood of our forebears" and the "insidious foreign influences" bits.

TomMarius 8y ago
> A terrible thing that, employment and economic stability. Fortunately, you can elect a government that throws them out, together with the EU, and nationalise all their property and do it your way. Venezuela did exactly that, and you could join them in their glorious ascent to complete sovereignity. But we don't want to be a country that nationalises stuff. The point is on the exact opposite of the political scale. We (the citizens) didn't want to sell it away dirt cheap in the first place. > Fortunately another poster did your homework for you: "In the countries with 10 million population, you have roughly 500k people per MEP. In Germany & France, it's 850k." How are German and French citizens relevant to the laws of my country, why do they have a say about it in a vote? I don't want to vote about Germany either. > Except for the "our people" and the "noble blood of our forebears" and the "insidious foreign influences" bits. Nothing noble about it. There is nothing wrong with cherishing your heritage, especially in case of people just a generation or two away. ;-) Are you denying history? Our national history has undeniably significantly shaped our whole culture - movies, theatre, language, literature, music, art, ways of parenting and education and so on... Basically the whole Czech culture is build on top of the fight against foreign oppression and the will to gain sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Revival Our people == citizens, nothing else. When I say nation, I mean people with common cultural background and in most cases citizenship. I don't care about immigrants, economical migrants and even refugees and I support helping them in any way possible, BTW - they're free to live with us, by our rules (or their, if they're citizens already).

TomMarius 8y ago

> A terrible thing that, employment and economic stability. Fortunately, you can elect a government that throws them out, together with the EU, and nationalise all their property and do it your way. Venezuela did exactly that, and you could join them in their glorious ascent to complete sovereignity. But we don't want to be a country that nationalises stuff. The point is on the exact opposite of the political scale. We (the citizens) didn't want to sell it away dirt cheap in the first place. > Fortunately another poster did your homework for you: "In the countries with 10 million population, you have roughly 500k people per MEP. In Germany & France, it's 850k." How are German and French citizens relevant to the laws of my country, why do they have a say about it in a vote? I don't want to vote about Germany either. > Except for the "our people" and the "noble blood of our forebears" and the "insidious foreign influences" bits. Nothing noble about it. There is nothing wrong with cherishing your heritage, especially in case of people just a generation or two away. ;-) Are you denying history? Our national history has undeniably significantly shaped our whole culture - movies, theatre, language, literature, music, art, ways of parenting and education and so on... Basically the whole Czech culture is build on top of the fight against foreign oppression and the will to gain sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Revival Our people == citizens, nothing else. When I say nation, I mean people with common cultural background and in most cases citizenship. I don't care about immigrants, economical migrants and even refugees and I support helping them in any way possible, BTW - they're free to live with us, by our rules (or their, if they're citizens already).