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>>Europe is 27 countries No, Europe is 44 countries the subset of Europe that is EU have 27 members
by rypskar 4y ago
>>Europe is 27 countries
No, Europe is 44 countries the subset of Europe that is EU have 27 members
- junon 4y agoI think it's pretty clear they were referring to the EU. No need for semantics wars.
- ttoinou 4y agoCalling the EU Europe is made on purpose to conflate the two and make it obvious that all countries should unite into this political union. I think it is very useful to point that to people who conflate the two terms
- junon 4y agoI think that's putting words into peoples' mouths.
- cassianoleal 4y agoSimilarly, calling the USA "America" to conflate it with the rest of the continent in order to drive their idea of Latin America being "the back yard of the USA", or, more recently "the front yard".
- oblio 4y agoTechnically correct. Russia is about 40% of the continent but few people want to go there, especially under current circumstances, and the remaining 16 countries are either EU associated (Switzerland & co), former members (UK), EU candidate countries, or countries frankly too small and/or poor and/or remote. The EU is the elephant in the room.