Why the constant EU bashing on this site now?

bdauvergne 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is not EU bashing, there is EU political confrontation between rational and irrational countries. My electricity bill is more expensive because we provide energy to all our neighbors and over that the EC think the french state subsidize its national electric operator too much which slowdown the deployment of new nuclear reactors. That cannot be both, give us our money back by allowing advantageous tariffs in countries with a good energy policy or let us develop our production base without interfering.

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zdragnar 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ask the Europeans, most of the US wasn't online when this hit the front page.

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drstewart 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good one. If anything, this is a refreshing change from the daily "look how independent and free Europe is now that the commune of Nowhereaux's planning committee switched from Excel to LibreOffice" article

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gpvos 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not sure this is EU bashing, it could equally be Sweden bashing.

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distances 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The article isn't, but many accounts now dish out anti-EU narratives in any topic remotely touching Europe.

A lot of it for sure is either direct propaganda, or internalized anti-EU sentiments after reading too much of that propaganda on other platforms.

Weak Europe is what both Russia and the current US administration are explicitly promoting, so it's not surprising to see an uptick of those comments. Most countries now have pro-Russian alt-right/left parties, and their supporters are very exposed to foreign state sponsored messaging.

	▲	gpvos 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There has been a lot of EU-bashing in general for many years of course, but I hadn't noticed an uptick on HN yet.

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abc123abc123 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because EU is a socialist and authoritarian project that will lead to war and disaster. Only the nationalist right has realized this, and the people are angry. It's boiling under the surface. The EU will either slowly sink down into irrelevance, or if noting is done, and the evil expands, it will lead to outright war.