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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Nothing they will/can stop the floods. I lived in Poland 30 years ago - the annual floods in July/August overran whole swathes of the Vistula 'valley', including Warsaw. The ODRA on the German/Polish border flooded Wroclaw in 1997 - I was there too.
Climate change - bah humbug. Whatever we reverse now (if anything can be reversed at that level) will have no effect for a very long time.
Ooh, stop eating meat and tomorrow no floods .
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Well, I think it’s worth making an effort for my children and grandchildren…
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Bringing EU matters back into important focus: Paywall link - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...aign=DM1462311
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Glorious, albeit that the row is about an ant-democratic law that Poland recently institutes (political appointment of a judges' star chamber). I'm not confident, though, that a referendum would produce a majority for exiting the EU.
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Pissing in the wind would cover that.
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Originally Posted by Carth
The EU aren't all that happy with things going on in Hungary either . . it's all starting to kick off 
Decided to add a link . . . just an opinion piece on Aljazeera, but it's a very good read with some classy touches about some reactions from the toothless EU 
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...y-break-the-eu
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Well, since Poland and Hungary are the two biggest recipients of EU money, win-win…
(nearly 17 billion Euros per year)