The reason for this profile to exist.

@BuyFromEU Why are Slovakia and Hungary included in the first picture and not in the second?

@BuyFromEU
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europe divided:
(a group of small cubes in the colors of EU countries, next to them are 2 large cubes in the colors of the USA and China)
europe united:
(3 large cubes in the colors of the EU, USA and China)

@Barbara_Sliwinska Thanks! Added

@BuyFromEU@mastodon.social There is also @buyfromeu@feddit.org

@BuyFromEU nationalism, away, away

@BuyFromEU this is not pro eu

@BuyFromEU Can (I list you as the source, if) I share this on other platforms?

@BuyFromEU @grb090423 This is why the UK leaving the EU was so bewildering. Their bargaining leverage is almost gone.

@BuyFromEU We all like our stars, don't we?

@PepijnVemer Yes! Feel free to do that

@BuyFromEU hi European mates!

@Monsterofproton Welcome buddy!

@stfn @BuyFromEU
Amen!

@BuyFromEU Sadly, many Europeans still do not realize this and are very prone to far right/ruzzian misinformation/propaganda.

@BuyFromEU A factor missing here is that there are many other powers - think Turkey. Russia, obviously. India, south America... they all can take advantage of the small EU countries - while we benefit hugely from being able to negotiate collectively.

And there's the internal market - the USA is so powerful because it has a single internal market. We (still) fail to create that same openness internally in the EU.

@StefanAlvemo @stfn @BuyFromEU Yes. Of course the EU has its flaws, as any system but it's entirely crazy how certain parties manage to put sand in the gears of the EU's functioning, harming EU citizens including their voters, just to be able to turn around and say - "hey, see, the EU doesn't work, vote for us"!

@dan613 @BuyFromEU @grb090423 ... and boy does it show in their economic development statistics. Painful to watch a once-proud nation shoot themselves in the foot like that.

Then again, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela... so many countries have made dumb decisions over their history

@petermchr @BuyFromEU how on earth did many europeans become as stupid as americans are?