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    Economy Retirement age increased by a few years - for or against ?

    The thing is, if people wanted to, they could retire at 40 or 50. If people choose to be a 9-5 slave all their life then expect to work later, of course. It makes sense if our population is getting older and there's not enough working people to support them.
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    Eurostat on Tourism in Europe (2009)

    In terms of international tourists Paris' number falls to 15.2 million (I guess the French must love visiting their own capital city, figures) with London only 500,000 behind with 14.7 million. Still Paris and London have for a long time and probably will dominate the city tourist industry...
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    What is the Next Step Towards Greater European Unification?

    As far as I'm aware these changes haven't happened. Regardless, if you look at the past crests for Real Madrid, a cross didn't appear on it until 1942. Anyway, these changes aren't anything to do with Islamification, more secularisation.
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    Americans about Europe's(and World) geography and stereotypes

    Hispanic people was a term coined by the US government - I'm not sure when - to identify the growing immigration from Central, Southern America and the Caribbean, essentially if you came from any Spanish speaking country, regardless of your race you were/are classed as Hispanic. Nowadays...
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    Society Should cannabis be legal in every country ?

    If you look at alcohol, especially in the UK where binge drinking is a problem, look at how people act, how they speak to others, and how they compose themselves in public. They abuse people verbally, physically and mentally, they seem to lose all respect for their surroundings and themselves...
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    The Gay Marriage Controversy

    Remember when the US and a lot of other countries didn't allow Black people to marry white people? You go ask a kid in British school these days and I bet you they wouldn't have even thought such laws existed. I think (and hope) that in the next couple of decades, especially in countries where...
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    What do you like and dislike about each language ?

    I am a native English speaker, I've learned French since I was 11, German since I was 12, Spanish in university and Italian for a year during university. SPANISH - By far my most favourite foreign language. I love how you could teach Spanish pronunciation to an (intelligent) person in like 10...
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    Politics Would you accept Israel as a member of the EU?

    I don't think the 'Israel is not geographically part of Europe' argument is valid. I see the E.U. one day expanding beyond the traditional 'European' borders. I mean look at turkey, 97% of it is in Asia. I personally wouldn't mind Israel one day being part of the EU, but it has a hell of a lot...
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    Politics [UK] Scottish referendum on independence

    The British royal family is also the Scottish royal family, so how could they break away from the UK completely? It most certainly is not going to be a repeat of Yugoslavia....we're civilised people. To be completely honest I really don't see Scotland voting for full independence, much like...
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    Languages knowledge in the EU

    Very Surprised by the Spain statistic, would have expected a lot more of them to know English, at least more than France!
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    Society Denmark introduces world's first fat tax

    I find this idea of a 'fat tax' absolutely insane! Just because some idiots out there who eat themselves until they're 300 pounds in weight, doesn't mean everyone else should suffer. What about the people who eat healthily all week then want to have say a cake on the weekend - why should they be...
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    European cultures : (3) the English

    Yeah it really really really does NOT rain that much in England - evidence? - they have issued yet another hose pipe ban in southern England because of DROUGHT. I think the reason most people think it rains loads here is because A) British people always complain about the weather B)It might...
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    The image of France around the world

    I think the best of France has to be the food, wine and romantic image. Also the language, the second most learned language - and I get the feeling people learn French because they want to, as opposed to people learning English because they have to, or because it betters their economic...
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    What makes Europeans similar between each others, as opposed to Americans

    First of all the question doesn't make sense in English. It should be "What makes Europeans similar to each other", between each other doesn't make sense. To put it in the smallest nutshell, continental Europeans seem to be very similar, especially to their neighbouring countries i.e...
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    Similarities between Belgium and Britain

    I think given geographical closeness, these two countries are bound to be very similar.
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    The 2nd Cornish National Minority Report

    Can't people just be happy being part of the UK? I get really angry at people who are pro-Scottish independence. All of them are of the same mindset - English imperialists reigning over us 'taking our oil' - they all seem to forget the fact that it was a SCOTTISH king who decided to move his...
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    Society Is the EU fostering the use of English across Europe ?

    It is only natural that as Europe (the E.U.) work closer together, they need to find one way of communicating. I both agree and disagree with your 'it has little or nothing to do with America' comment. On one hand I think it has a lot to do with the UK, being situated in Europe and having...
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    Foreign (English-speaking) actors increasingly dominate Hollywood

    Because of the size of the US domestic market, it is only natural that people from all over the Anglosphere come to work and produce in the US often on movies that are set in America or have an American feel. Instead of thinking of Hollywood as American cinema, I prefer to see it as...
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    Economy Germany about to introduce a minimum wage

    I both agree and disagree with the minimum wage. On one hand, yes it provides people with a standard of living but on the other hand does it strangle an economy when it's at it's weakest. In the UK it is £6.09 but what if companies were allowed to pay say £4 for a year. It would certainly boost...
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    Politics Is a common EU military possible?reasonable?

    Most probably in the future when the EU grow closer and closer to being the United States of Europe.
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