European Union: Positive News

[A_Gupta]

https://www.politico.eu/article/romania ... ge-simion/
Pro-EU moderate Nicușor Dan wins Romanian presidential election stunner
Bucharest mayor fends off challenge from hard-right firebrand George Simion, who conceded defeat after initially declaring himself the winner.

[Amber G.]

^^^x post - From Math dhaga:
Nicușor Daniel Dan , Romania's new president won IMO (International Math Olympiads) gold medals in two years (and perfect scores.) Probably a first.

[chetak]

some weeks since France condemned their main opposition leader to

- 2 years jail

- 2 years with electronic bracelet monitoring

- 100,000 EUR fine

- 5 yr ban on elections

Not a squeak for democracy rating agencies or global media

Imagine the outcry if this was India

[Kanoji]

some weeks since France condemned their main opposition leader to

- 2 years jail

- 2 years with electronic bracelet monitoring

- 100,000 EUR fine

- 5 yr ban on elections

Not a squeak for democracy rating agencies or global media

Imagine the outcry if this was India

"Western democracy" at work!!!

[ricky_v]

meaning of the names of some european nations, thought it was neat, did not really know that the franks were predominantly javelin throwers to have that name stuck onto that entire tribe, similar to how the germanic tribe of anglisch were predominantly fishers, and would eventually give name to the anglo

[Manish_P]

' so the Swedish and the Finns are just swedish and finnish...

Who are the 'Assemblers' - Iran (Persians)?

[Cyrano]

Marine le Pen was convicted by courts along with a bunch of other people from her party for using EU funds to employ people who worked for her party. She could still appeal the decision. The sentence is quite harsh but she never disputed the facts leading to her conviction.

Is this a witch hunt? May be, but I don't have much sympathy for her and her party. They are a set up to win/score high in the first round and then the centrists and leftys will raise the bogey of extreme right wing and secure their win in the second round as usual. Le Pen is no paragon of virtue, and she and her party are incompetent to lead.

[drnayar]

"Western democracy" at work!!!

just put pappu , paapi etc through the works .. and see the termites come out of the wood work

[ricky_v]

' so the Swedish and the Finns are just swedish and finnish...

Who are the 'Assemblers' - Iran (Persians)?

i believe finn is from an old norse word finnr, meaning wanderer, they are also referred to as sami which is what the indigenous people of finalnd call themselves, could not find the meaning of swedish

skillful assemblers might refer to iranians given the iraq is mentioned in the map, since antiquity times, the persians have been called out for focusing on form over function, i believe even megasthenes mentions the same

[Manish_P]

i believe finn is from an old norse word finnr, meaning wanderer, they are also referred to as sami which is what the indigenous people of finalnd call themselves, could not find the meaning of swedish
...

From google -

The Swedes (Swedish: svear; Old Norse: svíar, Old English: Swēon) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden. Along with Geats and Gutes, they were one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes. They had their tribal centre in Gamla Uppsala.

The Roman historian Tacitus was the first to write about the tribe in his Germania from AD 98, referring to them as the Suiones. Locally, they are possibly first mentioned by the Kylver Stone in the 4th century. Jordanes, in the 6th century, mentions Suehans and Suetidi. These names likely derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own". Beowulf mentions the Swedes around 1000 A.D.