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minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·27 days agoWell the UK just cut disability benefits. France is cutting support for chronically ill people. The swiss government is planning on removing disability benefits for young people…
minus-squareFrostbeard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-225 days agoWell Switzerland is hardly doing it to appease NATO “allies”. Yeah I know they are sort of allied adjacent. I am not saying that the countries are not doing these things. But are they doing it to curry favor with TACO Trump?
minus-squareGoldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoUKs government is weird. How that is labor no one knows. They also are introducing mass survailance. France and germany are trying to please the fascists inside their country. And both are having neoliberal leaders. And switzerland isnt in NATO lol
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·26 days agoNeither the UK nor Switzerland is in the EU. And I don’t see evidence to any of those claims beyond the UK going to shit either way.
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 days agoThe headline says “Europe” not the EU.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoBut “Europe” is not increasing military funding, the EU is.
Well the UK just cut disability benefits.
France is cutting support for chronically ill people.
The swiss government is planning on removing disability benefits for young people…
Well Switzerland is hardly doing it to appease NATO “allies”. Yeah I know they are sort of allied adjacent.
I am not saying that the countries are not doing these things. But are they doing it to curry favor with TACO Trump?
UKs government is weird. How that is labor no one knows. They also are introducing mass survailance. France and germany are trying to please the fascists inside their country. And both are having neoliberal leaders. And switzerland isnt in NATO lol
Neither the UK nor Switzerland is in the EU. And I don’t see evidence to any of those claims beyond the UK going to shit either way.
The headline says “Europe” not the EU.
But “Europe” is not increasing military funding, the EU is.