Misleading title. Brexit will not be renegotiated, it’s over and done with. The relation between the UK and the EU will always be an evolving matter (like the relation of the EU and any other country including its members), bit Brexit is done, the UK is out and that’s the new premise of any discussion and evolution of the relation.

The constant attacks against Israel and it’s increasing isolation only probs Zionists right. Jews can only trust themselves for their own defense and need a state for that (that’s what Zionism is). People like you feed Zionism everyday.

The retirees don’t last so long (sorry), but overtourism is indeed a problem. Finding the right balance is the secret but clearly our politicians are not aiming for that… but in fairness, tourism was fantastic for many years to promote Porto’s renewal. But now it’s time to put a break on it but no one is interested in that :/

You can buy very decent wine for less than 3€/bottle in any Portuguese supermarket 😅

Japan is probably the cleanest country I’ve ever been to and you rarely see a bin on the street. Easily accessible bins promote carelessness with the trash you produce. If there are no bins you need to think ahead and plan how you’ll dispose of your trash.

It already is. The doubt is when will it “sell voluntarily” Siberia to China.

We should have implemented this years ago, since the US did it on us. But it should only be required to countries with equivalent programs. This is “de facto” a visa and visa-free travel is quickly dieing out. Soon many other countries will introduce the same procedures…

ESTA (the American one) is even stricter than a visa on arrival, as without it you can’t even board the plane. We should call it what it is, it’s a visa, sure an e-visa, but a visa nonetheless.

With that mentality the Second World War would be a very different story.

I’ll never put invader and invaded on the same plate, ever. I find dangerous to even suggest it. A war is not fair and it’s not pretty by definition, Russia started it and can stop it at any moment. Enough said.

Why should Ukraine be Jesus? Always being hit and strictly hitting back only within their borders. Makes no sense. Russia destroyed airports, dams, energy plants, schools and hospitals for more than a year. A drone attack in an airport in Moscow is more than justified at this point.

Wake up Russians, don’t want war then stop it now while you can.

Ahah I mean it’s an obvious idea, it might be hot now but… winter is coming.

Swedes pilling up Qurans for the winter to save on wood in 1, 2…

The original ones.

I think in general they’re not so we’ll established in the countries where they never bothered to build a true national store. If I’m not mistaken their national stores in Europe, still from the time they were known for selling books, were France, UK, Germany and Italy. Spain came later and I think it’s also a bit less dominant there.

I shopped with them years ago for my running watch. Never again, been boycotting it for years and it’s really not that hard. There are alternatives, including physical shops.

For e-books I became a client of Kobo and one of the things I like about it is that you don’t have to just buy them from Kobo. I’ve been actively buying ebooks directly from publishers and manually transferring to the e-reader. It’s worth the effort to prevent new monopolies. Shop with the small guy whenever the price difference is small or the quality difference is worth it.

Value the freedom to burn corans in Sweden and Denmark. Thousands of people suffer horrible punishments and even death for so much less across the Muslim world. The least we can do in the privileged west is to show them that blasphemy is possible and “God” doesn’t punish anyone. Its zealots know it, they also don’t trust god to punish the infidels, they take the business in their own hands.

I don’t have much hopes for the average African leader… many of them will by this. Europe should definitely focus help and investments on the few African nations with reasonable leaders that don’t treat Europe as the threat and Russia as the friend. Investing one cent in the countries with leaders educated in the former USSR is a waste of ressources, they’re brainwashed since youth. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Padeira de Aljubarrota killed 7 Castillians by cooking them in her bakery’s oven in 1385.

Brites de Almeida das born in 1350 with 6 fingers in each hand, a though lady, could easily kill a man with her hands (and did it a few times), was kidnapped and enslaved in Northern Africa, managed to escape with her bare hands, helped out 2 other Portuguese guys to escape, stole a boat, sailed back with the guys, had a prob with one of them, killed him. Tried to establish herself in a honest way, but crime and murder were always coming her way somehow, ended up moving towns and disguise herself as a man. Met and older lady friend, a baker, that wanted to maker her an honest person. They lived happily as a couple. Older lady dies, she inherits the bakery. Castille tries to occupy Portugal, big battle, Portugal is outnumbered but manages to have a spectacular win. Some castillans are running around and looting. She lures 7 into her bakery, cooks them alive in her oven. Forever a national hero and legend.

Nothing of this is proven, including the Castillans she killed (which is the factoid that made her a hero) but there’re even songs about her and whenever Portugal plays against Spain in football you’ll see some people dressed as a baker on the stadium.

A lesbian serial-killer who escapsed enslavement to kill Castillans in one of the most important battles of our history? To me nothing can be truer than this, independently of what you can prove or not.

Portuguese guy here, but isn’t this just a direct consequence of the perfectly divided electoral system? If your voters are all X-language speaking, they (the voters) don’t really care about your Y-language level. I was surprised to learn that even in Brussels the electorates are divided by language.

In other multilingual countries being a poliglot is a great political advantage, I’ve just read about this unlikely white gay mayor in a mostly black town in South Africa. His secret? A rare white Zulu-speaker.

In Switzerland if you’re running in a bilingual Canton you’re also expected to speak both and if you aim for national politics you know German is essential.

But here you can always build a career encapsulated in your own language bubble. People normally learn languages because they need or feel it will bring them a big advantage. If it’s just a “nice thing to do” most won’t.

Where did I say that? But if you think a corrupt and poor dictatorship is a good model feel free to move.

PS: actually don’t feel so free about it, it’s a dictatorship and they’re always very careful with their borders… but do visit, it’s enlightening and the beaches are indeed fantastic. The food a bit less though, very bland.

A Iraqi refugee burns the quran in Sweden and Iraq expells the Swedish ambassador?! Failed state. I would like to see more solidarity from the other EU countries.