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When do you think Britain will join the Euro?

Within 5 years
24
27%
Within 10 years
28
31%
Sometime after that
19
21%
Never
19
21%
 
Total votes: 90

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Olivier wrote: Bush already plans to take off all the US army from the western countries (especially Germany) and to put new "OTAN bases" in Poland, Romania, Hungary... (and show to Russia they don't care about they promised).

O.
"Otan" is Finnish for "I will take". Sounds like a good slogan for NATO, I guess ;)

Just had to mention :P
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Dakkus wrote:
Olivier wrote: Bush already plans to take off all the US army from the western countries (especially Germany) and to put new "OTAN bases" in Poland, Romania, Hungary... (and show to Russia they don't care about they promised).

O.
"Otan" is Finnish for "I will take". Sounds like a good slogan for NATO, I guess ;)

Just had to mention :P
Yes you're right! :-)
BTW, is Finland inside of NATO?
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Olivier wrote:
Dakkus wrote: "Otan" is Finnish for "I will take". Sounds like a good slogan for NATO, I guess ;)

Just had to mention :P
Yes you're right! :-)
BTW, is Finland inside of NATO?
Finland is not a NATO country, but instead it's "peace-companion" or something. Don't know what that's in English. It means NATO won't attack us and we won't attack NATO, but we don't have to commit ourselves into NATO.
Paavo Lipponen, our Prime Minister during 1999-2003 put us in the coalition for war on Iraq, though. But it was a secret, because he didn't have a permission from Finnish people, parliament or probabably not even of government. Telling that on public (and lying about the papers, which was a stupid thing to do) was why Anneli Jäätteenmäki had to resign from her job as the PM of Finland.
But what can you suppose from a country where bribing politicians is still completely legal (that's why we don't have scandals like Italy.. If it's not illegal, doing it isn't breaking a law..)...
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Any developments in this field?
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Ask again in 10 or 20 years. Nah, wait ... 30 maybe. :wink:

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tabbs wrote:Ask again in 10 or 20 years. Nah, wait ... 30 maybe. :wink:

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I agree...
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Post by GorazdR »

I have lived in GB for 3 years and I have to say that virtually every article in newspapers about Euro has a negative connotation attached to it. With that overwhelmingly negative campaign there's no way GB will adopt Euro anytime soon, nor ratify EU constitution. I think that sometime in the future we will seriousely have to consider Europe of two speeds. It is the only way to combat and defend against Chinese, Russian and US interests.
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GorazdR wrote:With that overwhelmingly negative campaign there's no way GB will adopt Euro anytime soon, nor ratify EU constitution.
And nobody seriously expects the UK to do either of the two. :lol: So what? I am a little more concerned about whether those member states that used to be interested in closer cooperation are willing to continue. As long as the European Union is ultimately ruled by national politicians who are responsible to their home voters only, and expect to get a better "national profile" by bashing the EU when it suits them, I don't really two different speeds as a viable alternative.

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GorazdR wrote:I think that sometime in the future we will seriousely have to consider Europe of two speeds.
No, UK can't be fit to either of these categories. We would need a third one called "stagnation". :lol:
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I think we can expect a massive flood of new users if the UK will join the euro zone.....
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Fons wrote:I think we can expect a massive flood of new users if the UK will join the euro zone.....
Nah, I'd expect massive stagnation, as many of our potential hitnotes would go the newborn British EBT superdesert. And would be replaced by British beduine banknotes who have never ever seen a trackie.
Well, okay. Lazza's super. And I have my complete trust in him being able to press the British hitratio down til some 1:50.

It's just.. Something makes me think the British might be even less interested in ebting than the Irish are..
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