@euobserver Is that with or without #EndRebates ? Frugalism is fun when you get to spread the cost to everyone else.
Well, financing via 1. whatever of member statelets GNI is no way to finance a Union that needs massive investments anyway, so if they don't want to pay 3 percent instead, they could always go to market. Every single EU issuance so far has been massively oversubscribed and investors are desperate to park their money in safe 🇪🇺 assets. Quit whining and do eurobonds.
@janeishly @saustrup The TV channel hasn't expanded, the previous 🇩🇪 government didn't finance it even though it told 🇫🇷 it agreed to it. So that's something to fight over in the next EU budget negotiation this year and the next. (Where 🇩🇪 is also refusing to #EndRebates from the Thatcher era, so not sure how the current 🇩🇪 government squares that, maybe it will push the other #FrugalsInTrenches to quit being penny-pinchers). The streaming platform is available everywhere.
https://fr.themedialeader.com/arte-pour-tous-les-europeens-la-chaine-vise-les-24-langues/
Arte ajoute le roumain à sa plateforme Arte.tv depuis ce lundi, portant à sept le nombre de langues disponibles. Elle devient ainsi accessible, en langue maternelle, à 77% de la population européenne.
@sibrosan @hpod16 Lo es, la verdad.
Should've said subscription-free, ARTE is a public channel mostly financed by France+Germany. France has been pushing to expand ARTE in all 24 EU languages and use it as our 🇪🇺 public broadcaster for nearly a decade. Germany refused to pay, but recently they seem to have got a jolt and now propose to finance it via the EU budget. They still refuse to #EndRebates tho (a 49 billion hole frugals drill in the EU budget), so let's see how they square that circle.
@bartgroothuis @bnrnieuwsradio Er is geen andere manier om volwassen te worden.
Misschien kunnen we nu een echte EU-begroting krijgen, te beginnen met #EndRebates
#MFFButNotTheFunKind Ya se hizo famoso en Mastodon un ministro danés, el Sr. Hummelgards el del Chat Control. En estos últimos días de la presidencia 🇩🇰 del "Senado" 🇪🇺 me toca hacer famosa a #MarieBjerre la ministra danesa que quiere proteger el indefendible agujero de 49 000 millones de 💶 que los frugales siguen agujereando en el presupuesto de la UE por sus rebajas de la era Thatcher (y que cubrimos el resto de los europeos). #EndRebates
@SuneAuken @drdave89 We could have 49 extra billions in the EU budget to at least start to finance some of these much needed autonomy basic tools and yet the German, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Austrian governments still act like it's 1981 and refuse to #EndRebates They continue to blow a 7 billion euro a year hole in the EU budget. Can someone please tell them Thatcher is dead?
@svenfranckvolt @yanniskaramits Meanwhile, EU member states... We're talking about the same governments that won't even #EndRebates in this climate.
@mfeilner „Die EU“ muss offenbar viele Dinge tun, die viel Geld kosten. Mit welchem Budget? Wir zahlen den Gegenwert einer Kaffeetasse pro EU-Bürger an die EU, und die deutsche Regierung ist vehement dagegen, den EU-Haushalt aufzustocken und der EU eigene Finanzmittel zuzugestehen. Sie wird weiterhin auf den beschämenden Rabatten aus der Thatcher-Ära bestehen, die der EU 49 Milliarden Euro vorenthalten. #EndRebates
@AngelaScholder @ErikJonker @geopolitics I forgot: where are the calls on the Dutch government to #EndRebates on the EU budget so Ukraine can get 49 billion in extra EU aid?
Until they touch the stove, your governments will feel no incentive to make the much needed investments needed at 🇪🇺 level for 🇪🇺 autonomy. The hot plate is much more likely to come from US withdrawal (de facto if not de jure) as a sizeable chunk of voters in frugal/Atlanticist 🇪🇺 states are convinced I'll spend THEIR money
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