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You’re free to look them up of corse.

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I did. Did you? She does not provide any details on what she plans to do with those idle savings. But there are context clues in the rest of her speech.

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Our target is to reduce the administrative burden by 25% for all companies and by 35% for SMEs by
2029.

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This is the only hint of becoming more "free market" in her entire speech. There are no details. You keep ragging on the ignorance of the people ragging on her, so maybe you have more info? Or do I need to keep digging while you smugly brag about your superior knowledge?

Even if they lower the admin costs of these companies via de-regulation, is that enough to compete with the US's economy? They're still going to be more regulated than the US, and taxed higher. Why would people with idle savings suddenly decide to mass-invest in EU companies if foreign countries offer better returns?

-bunch of talk about trade deficits. That's fine if Europe made things, but they don't. Mostly because of all of the aforementioned issues. The US faces similar issues, but not nearly to the scale of Europe (not just because of taxes and regulations, but also energy costs).

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The third challenge concerns the single market. It is our greatest economic asset.

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Read that comment as many times as you need to come up with a reason that her speech was some major free-market shift for the EU.

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The fourth challenge is energy. Nowadays, it is the main factor limiting our competitiveness andindependence. Prices in Europe are still twice or three times higher than in the United States or China....For that reason, we must produce our own low-carbon energy in Europe. Thanks to renewable energy and nuclear energy, morethan 70% of our electricity is already produced from low-carbon sources in Europe.

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Outside of France, the EU has been DRASTICALLY cutting down on nuclear power. Solar and wind will not help with the costs that she complains about.

-she also talks about more freedom of movement between EU countries (i.e. freedom of movement from the 3rd world into the EU).


Most of those issues don't directly apply to the OP's topic, but only ~10% of her speech gave a hint of policy that would encourage EU savers to actually invest their money.

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Roaad

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My Macgruber comment garnered 3 downvotes. Guess how many throat rips it takes to make up a "turkey"?

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You’re free to look up the details of these proposals.

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Where are the proposals? The OP and others ragging on this haven't posted any details. Neither have you, SFP, or others that either support it or are doing the whole "BuT aKsHuAlLy" schtick.

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Or, you could just eat up the bullshite rage bait in the OP.

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Lacking details on what she's proposing, but being fairly familiar with how the EU has been operating since its formation (especially over the past ~10 years), I'm going to lean heavily towards there being frickery afoot. Europe taxes and regulates the shite out of their companies. If she were legitimately concerned about improving the economy, those would be the two main topics to address in her speech, not how much money people have saved up.

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submit Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It's just about perfect.

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That's a rare movie where, if I'm recommending it to someone, I tell them to watch the theatrical cut, NOT the extended/directors version. The extended cut adds like 45 minutes to the movie and almost all of the added material falls flat. But yeah, the theatrical cut is top tier.

Toss up between Holy Grail and Macgruber. One of Christopher Guest's movies would be #3, but which one changes based on my mood.

NIH is going to be pissed that you stole his thread.

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granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday to return to college for one more season

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Gotta be honest, I don't think that I understand how sports work anymore.

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CP3/West/Chandler/Peja

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When is the general consensus for when DS9 gets interesting?

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You don't hit a great episode until S1E18 (Duet).

S2 is consistently better than S1, but S3 is probably when it really hits its stride. It's a great show, and you almost certainly won't regret sticking it out and powering through the relatively weak start. I think that the characters in DS9 are the strongest out of any Star Trek series by a decent margin.

I still need to restart Voyager (never finished S1, even though I was enjoying it for the most part). I will say that I liked Enterprise a lot more than I was expecting to. Definitely not on the same level as TNG/DS9, but still good television.