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> Typical. Any talk of privacy in EU circles is mere marketing speak, void of everything. I have observed this with many other areas, not just privacy. Very s

• coldtea 5y ago
  A union the nation states people actually asked for, instead of having it be imposed unto them?
  • IAmEveryone 5y ago
    The EU has majority approval in every single member country and even the UK. In many cases, it gets 2/3 majorities. Apart from survey data, there have been many referenda on EU membership or aspects of it over the years, with similar results. Even for the most critical of countries, at the high point of anti-EU propaganda, opposition reached just a hair over 50%, which has turned out to be very unfortunate timing for the UK. Edit: I had looked for, but forgot to include, the data: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/11/17/majorities-in-the-european-union-have-favorable-views-of-the-bloc/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/11/17/majorities-in-...
    • coldtea 5y ago
      >The EU has majority approval in every single member country and even the UK Yeah, just not the EU power centers (the Commission for one), which were never voted for, and increasingly moved state power over to bureaucracy and unelected shadow bodies. >Apart from survey data, there have been many referenda on EU membership or aspects of it over the years, with similar results. Yes. And when they failed, they were repeated to taste or merely ignored. (And ahead of those, the EU bodies devoted lots of funds to "educational" campains on those matters to promote the desired results in the press, yielded bribes, sorry, developmental packages and exerted pressure, in a carrot and stick manner, to get nation states to vote favorably).