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When people here say "Europe is great", which part are they referring to?
by jalapenos 3y ago
When people here say "Europe is great", which part are they referring to?
- OJFord 3y ago'Western Europe' or 'EU + UK' or 'G6' basically, with the additional information that the speaker's North American.
- eru 3y agoNo love for Switzerland?
- OJFord 3y agoI didn't mean 'Western Europe' to exclude it. UN geoscheme lists it as such if you want something concrete. (Though it also puts the UK in Northern Europe, and leaves out Italy & Spain & Portugal (Southern), which I didn't mean either.) It's a funny term. In UK use it means something like 'mainland Europe but not Russia or some former Soviet states'. It's about the bits you think of and travel to, I suppose. Although that makes it sound obvious, which it isn't, because nobody means India when they say Asia, but it's at least as much in the public psyche as anywhere else in continental Asia.
- eru 3y agoOh, I meant EU+UK would exclude Switzerland. No comment about Western Europe intended.
- BurningFrog 3y agoThey're typically Americans who think all 50+ European countries have very similar legal systems and cultures.
- mtnGoat 3y agoThe typical American still probably doesn’t even know that the words EU and Europe aren’t interchangeable. When I lived to Austria I was appalled at how many American friends asked me about the surfing.
- 77pt77 3y agoLouisiana doesn't even use common law.
- dukeyukey 3y agoEh, Scotland is in a similar position with a common-civil hybrid. The Channel Islands use a local customary Normon-derived legal system. And that's only in one European country!
- refurb 3y agoThe one they saw on Youtube where some random person does a video about their opinions. You know. "Fact" and "rigorous research".
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoThe one people on reddit present when bashing the USA.
- ragall 3y agoSomeone should read the fine article: ESA is one of the world’s leading space exploration organizations and one of the few that is international in scope, representing 22 member states. Contrary to a common misconception, ESA is not part of the European Union and not bound by European law. In fact, ESA is not bound by any real-world law, either local or national—it’s governed only by its 130-page Convention and a set of internal regulations. This international status grants the ESA and its staff privileges that are far superior to those afforded to its bigger sister and role model, NASA, notably the ability to maintain any internal documents as confidential. ESA were basically granted immunity, almost like a UN agency, and of course they are abusing it.
- vasco 3y agoThey also pay lower taxes than everyone else and so on. The best thing about ESA is that it sucks and doesn't actually accomplish much, so hopefully they stop this scam.