tomacht8

Oh dear.
If the GDP growth rate is below the inflation rate that is bad.
An inflation-adjusted GDP is already more meaningful.
The actual composition of the GDP rate is also important.

3 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Are you serious?  This is the arrival area before any such things.  Most people do not use "visa on arrival" in any case.

Yes i am serious. 
Everything that avoids hours of waiting in a queue, I would find good.
Nothing does speak against setting up machines with waiting numbers.
The arrival hall (before immigration) could indeed be made more customer-friendly.

Standing in the queue for 4 hours is crap.
Why not simply place machines where you can draw a waiting number like in any bank. Instead of being in the queue for hours, you could go for food and shopping.

18 minutes ago, aright said:

Three statements , a salutation and a question I can't begin to understand. Explain?

Do not snip a post to one sentence if it is not necessary.
What i have to explain?
 

5 minutes ago, aright said:

Resentment in the EU on the Democratic Deficit is growing daily. 

 

555
You are right. Luckily we have regular elections in Europe and in the UK.
There are even regular elections to the EU Parliament.
There are even Referendums.
Good luck with Brexit.
Why are you still taking care of the other EU Member States?

 

1 hour ago, aright said:

Its not. It's a comment on the difficulties the EU has with recalcitrant states and countries including Poland. Hardly worth a new thread i would have thought but if you think it deserving go ahead, open one.  As for their relative wealth its not an issue where democracy is concerned......it becomes a big issue however if their demands needs are ignored.

Finally, there is a sequence of discipline.
The Catalans simply make before an iligale plebiscite, which contradicts the constitution of the country.
The Scots are kindly asking if it is allowed to make a referendum, and the Corsicans have always been making a lot of wind. And the government of Poland is currently trying to restrict the separation of powers and to control the media.
This is daily Business for the EU.
If everyone can talk to each other and realize win -win situations, that's just fine.
Without strong intra-European structures we would again see small wars and bomb Terror within the EU borders.
This is one of the core tasks of the EU not to allow this regional violence nonsense.

 

The new document, ...., and will be introduced as old passports expire and at no extra cost to the taxpayer.
That's nice.
Finally, a clear, forward-looking Statement.
For my last passport, I had to pay 60 euros.

Maybe a  chronic wristwatch infection.
The treatment costs can be very expensive.

One of the worst clans in Thailand.
Unusually rich, violent and always with a free ticket to prosecutions.

If he bought wristwatches abroad, he must have registered them with Customs and paid tax. For example, who imports luxury watches into Europe without registering them with costums, commits the offense of tax Evasion. The European customs easily gets the info with the serial numbers, where the watches were originally sold. 
The whole case has caused a lot of attention in Thailand.
I look forward to his explanations.

5 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

 But it doesn't have to be, if the EU agree to a sensible Brexit deal.

I think both sides are interested in minimizing there losses.
The biggest problem is the tight negotiation time.
As it turns out, the UK as well as the EU has nothing to give away for free in the negotiations.

19 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

,No, I'm fine with maths thanks.

14.5% is a huge percentage of the total. It shows how much of a blow to the EU that the UK leaving is. An Almost fatal blow I'd say.

 

 

It is undisputed that Brexit represents a loss for both, the EU economy and the UK economy.

18 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Well, if you want to do it by GDP

then the total eurozone gdp is 18.06 trillion dollars

the uk's gdp was 2.62 trillion dollars.

So, the UK has about 14.5 percent of total GDP

The rest of the EU has about 85.5 percent of total GDP.

I suspect that to your way of thinking a 14.5 is a bigger number than an 85.5

But not to most of us.

Good discussion.
The attractiveness of countries for trade depends on many factors.
For example, the attractiveness of Romania as a trading partner can still be very high, even if the population and the GDP numbers are low. The timeline is also significant. Rumania has e.g. very fertile fields for agriculture. The farmers there need efficient technology and machinery. More efficient, more effective and more market-oriented farming management/machinery will result in higher yields. They can then sell their agricultural products on the EU market without barriers, and can buy all other stuff they need. I see Romania as an important agricultural producer in the future. 

It's not the first time that the US is pretty much alone under Trump, when I think of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Besides Syria and Nicaragua, they are the only country that is no longer part of the UN World Climate Treaty.

Are the tourist numbers down?

2 hours ago, terryw said:

The EU will have to make a deal on services. As reportedly said by Mark Carney yesterday, 'London is the Bank of Europe'.

 

"I remind you that I'm not aware of any free-trade deal in the past between the European Union and third countries that would have allowed privileged access for financial services," he told a news conference.

That means translated: no

Everyone can calculate the expected consequences for the bank-, insurance- and financial systems.

All EU Member States are committed to ensuring the fundamental values of democracy in their sovereign states.
The three fundamental pillars are the separation of the three forces: Legislative, executive, judiciary.
How each state organizes its state structure within these core values does not matter to the EU as long as the basic principle of the separation of powers is respected.
If this separation of powers is no longer clear, a country is moving towards dictatorship.
And in Poland, the current government is trying to limit this separation of powers.
The effects can already be seen, e.g. with the illegal
Deforestation in Bialowieza nature reserve, where corrupt regional politicians filling up there private pockets.

The history lessons about World War II are outstanding.<

But a little bit looked out before.
How should this be regulated exactly with the Irish border?

 

Let's see how much water penetrates when the whole boat is fully loaded. With planes, fuel, provisions and crew.

200 liters an hour is nothing. the installation of a small permanent submersible pump is enough. maybe welding in a few more planks and the kitchen could keep fresh sea fish there.

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

Tell that to the Australians.

 

Plans by the UK and European Union to share quotas for cheap food imports after Brexit have come under fire from Australia.

Restrictions on how many products can be imported into the EU on favourable rates are set across the bloc and concerns have been raised internationally that exporters could take a financial hit when the UK quits.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/25/australia-raises-doubts-over-post-brexit-plans-for-eu-food-import-quotas

It seems that Barry Gardiner is one of the few with expertise in details.

18 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

Strength in trade negotiations comes from integrity, not numbers of countries.

The European single market with the enlargement of the European Union to 28 Member States is the largest common market in the world.

Believe me,

The regulation of access to this market is a very strong bargaining position. 

8 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

While I am usually the last to take satisfaction at the misfortune of others, I find this to be a much more welcome Christmas message. 

Of course - to be taken with a pinch of salt. The corrupt old parasite has previously gone on record to say that he cannot survive on the 250K he pockets yearly. 

 

 

With his Joseph Goebbels rhetoric he did not make any friends. But he will go down in the history of the EU Parliament as the one who managed to personally insult all EU parliamentarians from 28 countries.