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(05g) Contributions to EU

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The UK has to pay a larger contribution to the EU budget (about 2.1 billion Euro extra (!!!), to be found within about one month) and even the poorest country of the EU, troubled Greece but also Italy, seems to be forced to pay more while France and Germany get some money back. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..., I lay flat on my stomach from laughing if it was not so tragic. And the European Commission is even defending this by claiming it is right because statisticians did the calculations. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..., I lay (again) flat on my stomach from laughing if it was not so tragic. Europe really is alienating everyone in the Union although some countries don't mind the collapse of the EU while other countries don't mind getting a reduction on their contribution. And thus the statisticians did their calculations and many saw it was good. However, statistics are meant to give information so politician

Isis and Turkey

To me, what is happening at this moment around the city of Kobani in northern Syria demonstrates how evil, hidden in people, comes to the surface during crisis moments. Indeed, the main evil hopes to understand the lesser evil and thus Assad hopes President Erdogan will not help his enemy the Kurds so they may be slaughtered by Isis . But Assad may also hope that, after the fall of Kobani, the Kurds will again start fighting against the Turkish state because President Erdogan allowed the defeat of his enemy, the Kurds. Indeed, unrest between the Kurds and Turkey is already growing because of the refusal at this moment by Turkey to help the Kurds . After Kobani falls, an enemy of Isis will be weaker as many Kurds will be killed while its influence and powers will continue to grow. Another possibility is that Isis offers safety for the Kurds on condition they join them. If only then Isis would attack Turkey, Erdogan will have to fight two fronts (i.e. Kurds and Isis), weakening Turkey