It was incorporated into the UK through a vote by the Irish Parliament.
After acts of political, religious and economic violence by the English that made acquiescence unavoidable. The fact that a desperate Parliament had no choice but to accede to England's wishes is hardly any kind of get-out-of-jail-free card.
Not really. It's been 20 years since I read up on Grattan and 15 years since my sojourn with Wolfe Tone so don't remember the details. But - although it was controversial - the "acts of political, religious and economic violence" you refer to simply didn't occur.
The problem was more one of absentee landlords not paying attention to what was being done in their name.
Google. I put "GDP of the EU" in and right at the top of the page is a box that has 20.9 in it.
In any case we're arguing about pocket money here. The EU is either the largest or is close to being the largest economy on earth. Nobody else comes close other than the US.
Google. I put "GDP of the EU" in and right at the top of the page is a box that has 20.9 in it.
In any case we're arguing about pocket money here. The EU is either the largest or is close to being the largest economy on earth. Nobody else comes close other than the US.
Google. I put "GDP of the EU" in and right at the top of the page is a box that has 20.9 in it.
In any case we're arguing about pocket money here. The EU is either the largest or is close to being the largest economy on earth. Nobody else comes close other than the US.
You're comparing apples with oranges then.
Under nominal GDP USA is top, under PPP China is. You can't compare one nations nominal GDP another's PPP.
If Trump wants to destroy NATO, then let him. Europe should have nothing to do with his childish games any longer.
EDIT: I cannot, *will not* believe that his party, an overtly and explicitly atlanticist party for countless generations, will allow this to stand. But the Stockholm syndrome in the GOP runs deep nowadays.
The trouble is that NATO survives a US withdrawal from it. It is all very well having nothing to do with things, but Europe is in a whole ocean of shit when Don's mate Vladimir has a pop at the Baltic states while the treaty subsists.
NATO will not survive a US withdrawal. The US contribution absolutely dwarfs all the other members and it structures and processes reflect that centrality. There will eventually be a new European security framework in its stead. In the mean time learn Russian and dig a shelter.
It survives as a legal framework with a set of treaty obligations. A US withdrawal effectively transforms it into EUTO, and Europe is going to have to find itself an army to back up its obligations to its members and allies in the Baltic.
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The walkout hasn’t done much.
Basically this is a rule taking full Norway, slightly rebranded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcPQ9gww_qc
The problem was more one of absentee landlords not paying attention to what was being done in their name.
In any case we're arguing about pocket money here. The EU is either the largest or is close to being the largest economy on earth. Nobody else comes close other than the US.
I have intense dislike of Trump but that does not mean that everything he says is wrong
Just as I have an intense dislike of Corbyn but everything he says is not wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Under nominal GDP USA is top, under PPP China is. You can't compare one nations nominal GDP another's PPP.
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Think about the Glasgow Effect cutting down swathes of yes voters in their 50s.