House prices. They are becoming impossible compared to the salaries.
Also politicians saying we should leave NATO right now… in the 90s it wouldn’t be that much of an issue, but now?
Ireland. There aren’t enough houses, and we seem to have something against apartment living, so there aren’t enough of either being built.
Inflation, the interest on mortgages. Some people think we have too many non ethnic swedes that don’t know/care about the social contract and then infiltrate and implement corruption more normal in their cultures (or any other culture), but we are getting better att rooting out the problem (mostly family ethnic structures like christian syrians that use the system) and honestly a lot of people think it’s much just because it gets exposed.
Also our murder rate per capita has gone down but instead of knifing and beating each other to death people now tent to shoot opponents. Sometimes they shoot innocent people too. But fewer dead yay.
Otherwise we worry a bit about USA sucking Russian dick prepare our submarines and flirt with India.
House prices which translates into extremely low fertility rates, in addition, close proximity to Russia
Croatia
1. Massive corruption and nepotism, both state and private
2. Unregulated importation of forgain workers for profit
3. Mindset stuck on 40s and 90s times.
4. High housing prices. We are talking about 3000€/m^2 on average on a state median net salary of ~1200€
Bonus: Tax evasion on rent. Approximatly 90% of house owners (no joke, that’s the official approximation) will NOT report that they have a tenant and pocket the difference. And your Neighbours will not report them because “yOu NeVeR kNOw wHen YoU’LL nEEd hIs/heRs HElP”
Everything. But mainly housing. And by extent our tiny country seems to have reached the upper limits what it can take with the number of people living here, the housing shortage, shortages in many industries including healthcare while having a growing population but also our infrastructure is reaching the limits of its capacity. Even the politics seems to have reached its limits with left and right cant solving these major issues without upset at least a part of the population while we are used to our polder model; finding a compromise to work things out.
The Netherlands:
1. Housing. Housing is definitely the biggest issue we’re facing right now, especially the social housing sector.
2. Immigration. While I myself do not believe immigration is that big of an issue, it has become such a controversial topic that it’s crippled effective governance.
3. Environmental and climate concerns. A lot of new projects, including housing projects, can’t be realized because of their environmental impact. Especially nitrogen emissions seem to be a big issue.
4. The electric grid. Our current electric grid is overloaded. Which also has an impact on new projects being realized. And upgrades are extremely slow.
Incidentally, 2 3 and 4 all worsen our housing issues.
In Finland it’s unemployment and the fact that there is no source of growth for the situation to improve either. No capital, no ideas, no significant advantages to any other developed country and no political will to make meaningful structural improvements.
In Bulgaria I would say the centralisation of the economy in 5-6 urban areas. Everything else stems from that.
Corruption is hard to tackle because less advanced areas depend on the local feudal lords, as we call them, for jobs and even social services. This creates a powerful voting block that perpetuates corrupt politicians.
The government, when investing in public services, favours the economic core, which creates a vicious cycle for the periphery – less development leads to fewer investments, which leads to population decline and thus less public spending.
The end result is a very divided society, with stark differences between the rich and the poor. Residents of wealthy areas are resentful that they don’t get more say in politics, while those of poorer communities hate that they only get table scraps.
It’s not a healthy situation.
The ultra rich buying up all the houses making a housing crises, which aside from raising the price of houses out of reach for most people.
Has also had the domino effect of raising the price of everything.
Another effect of the hoarding and greed mental problem of the ultra rich is them stagnating wages at the same time, compounding the problem.
So basically, like the rest of the world. The only real problem we have is the ultra rich and their mental problems of greed and hoarding.
(im in iceland.)
Housing costs & increasing pressure on the working& middle class. Like other G20 countries house prices have far outrisen inflation which has done the same with wages. The majority of this burden falls on the working class but increasingly the middle class too. Ineffective governments mean our real wages haven’t risen since around 2007-8. If this isn’t fixed we will likely fall more and more to the far right as seen elsewhere. If this happens hopefully I’ll be gone by then.
The Netherlands. Until a few months ago, I would have answered climate change, probably followed by our housing crisis. But now, it is Trump. We lost the US as a valuable friend and ally, and see how many Americans not only have a very limited grasp of geopolitics, but are also very much ready to stab friends and allies in the back to alleviate some inflation – which doesn’t even work that way.
We have to completely redefine who our friends and allies are, and must prepare for the worst, because Trump is a terrible leader and could overtly switch sides to Russia any day now; nobody can convince me that hasn’t already happened covertly years ago. As a nation that is dependent on trade and the service sector, very highly integrated with the US on any level, Trump is problem #1.
Climate change will be devastating, but will take some decades to come into full effect, and the US turning fascist is a problem right fucking today.
The manipulation of public debate by govt, civil service and msm cabal with select academics in support.
Unemployment, especially amongst the youth, remains the biggest problem despite seeing some alleviation with the current government. Housing prices also went insane after Ukraine just like everywhere else in the Western world.
Romania. Corruption, huge gap between rich – middle – poor, lack of smart trade and poor productivity in industry, agriculture so on
Biggest problem is probably being rich country (having a wealth fund).. it means that every politician here believing every problem can be solved with more money.. not having to prioritize / looking for better way to solve a problem.. So maybe the way to solve the problems is the biggest problem..
So many problems related to that.. Like for years on years performing poorly in mathematics etc.. more and more money being spent in norwegian school.. still norwegian students performs poorly compared to other nations… could transfer that to so many fields of problem..
we have a problem -> sollution : spend more money -> some years later -> still having a problem.. maybe problem even worse..->new sollution : spend even more money -> ….
Germany
1. the people – don’t like the German attitude at all. Neither the „typical“ German attitude nor the „ironical“ anti attitude many younger people have!
2. the people – totaly submissive attitude towards state and society! Recognize how bad that is during the pandemics
3. Tax System, extensive state and bureucracy
Social security, mainly pensions and linked to that affordable healthcare and elderly care.
It boggles my mind that in timespan of weeks very far-reaching decisions about defence spending can be made, but for literally decades we have somehow been unable to guarantee a liveable pension to people who have worked 40+ years.
I’m not against having a solid military, but the ease with which billions of euros are conjured out of thin air amazes me.
1. Pensions / Demographics
2. Immigration
3. Housing
4. The state of our military
5. Taxes and insurances got way too expensive. Country is rich but the people are getting more and more poor.
6. Lack of skilled workers
e: the order is random, not inteded to sort by priorities.
e2: List is for germany
Germany:
1. Immigration
2. Our social security system, especially the pension system, is at the brink of collapse
france
One of our ex president is in trial for take money of a dictator for campaing.
the dictator was saying bad against him. As i can put you in jail.
So kill him, destroy the country.
Think about it next time u view corruption somewere 😉
PS Not in trial for the lybia destruction, just for money smugling and corruption in the way of political campaign.
7 years from public attorney , result from judge in some day.
And in the same time people are crazy about the poor and the colored.
Ah and yep as every country house…
Systemic political corruption, lack of affordable housing, job opportunities and wages not keeping up with the rising prices.
Hard to pick just one.
Netherlands
To many political parties.
To many inbetween people to get things done.
Protesters that keep asking for a raise and than have suprised Pikachu face when they still dont have enough money.
The state of healthcare. Many people around the world admire it and our politicians are letting it go to ruin.
The gap between the populations perceived safety and the actual safety.
You have nothing fear but fear itself.
Denmark: USA
Seriously, all of our other problems seems so small at the moment. Sure schools and healthcare needs more funding, inflation’s annoying and companies struggle to find employees but what’s really a problem is that we’re not a big ass country with a big ass army.
Denmark.
As with many other places: house prices
But honestly the biggest currently is the US basically threatening us with war.
Unemployment because industry was relying on low value bulk production rather than engineering more innovative refining of products.
Factories are constantly being shut because third world countries simply make good enough quality million times cheaper.
Unemployment in Finland is close to 10%
Housing and immigration. Houses are far too expensive and the younger generation can no longer afford them and the older generation like me who has kids cant afford what our parents had so we are in homes 1/2 the size.
Immigration because we imported tons of people from Morocco, Algeria, Somalia and never even attempted to integrate them. We let them in on humanitarian grounds and then just sot of pushed them off to the side… enough time passed and now they have full legal rights to stay but the next generation is practically feral and accounts for most of our serious crime. And we largely only have ourselves to blame. We allowed them in, we failed to integrate or push them to adopt our norms, we actively discriminated against them… including one massive government scandal where working families were maliciously targeted in a benefits crackdown that resulted years later in a govt apology. We were actively racist to them after letting them in now they hate us and we actively hate them and blame everything on them even stuff that has nothing to do with immigration… its a total mess.
Netherlands BTW.
In the UK it is the economic effect of BREXIT, which so miserably negotiated by Lord Frost for Alexander “BOZO” Johnson.
– Immigration, Integration, Crimes done by Muslim refugees
– Demographic shift, too many old people retiring and not enough pensions for them so they end in poverty, not enough people wanting kids
– Lack of skilled workers, lack of workers in care jobs (caring for the elderly, nurses, kindergarten) and those who work there are overworked and underpaid
– Too many people studying in university and not enough people wanting care jobs, not enough handyman
– Military is not good enough, we can’t really defend ourselves when attacked
– Internet is super slow, bureaucracy is terrible and most offices want letter or fax instead of mail because mails are not trustable
In my country there is problem,
And that problem is transport.
It take very very long,
Because Kazakhstan is big.
Throw transport down the well,
So my country can be free.
So my country can be free!
We must make travel easy,
Then we have a big party.
Corruption, nothing else even comes close to it and so many other problems stem from it, whether it’s the underfunded healthcare system, lacking social services, infrastructure not being built on time, the decaying justice system or the unhealthy political culture, all of that is because of corruption.
Not a European, but I find it very interesting that much of Europe seems to be struggling with housing much like where I live in the US: California. Many of the countries in the comments are dealing with issues similar to ours.
its called orban viktor.
his opposition had been calling out his head of the federal reserve for blatantly stealing and funneling taxpayer funds to his son and his friends. after 12 years as fed chair, he stepped down, his biggest in party rival got to his position, and now “suddenly” they realized that a FEW PERCENT of the country’s gdp has been literally stolen… and orban? he is quiet, he still talks about europe wanting war, only him fighting for peace, while having putin balls deep in is mouth.
Ireland- Housing by far
In recent times, illogical placement of refugees or economic migrants being placed into tiny towns with no real infrastructure or places to integrate with local community. I’m from a small village originally in the west coast of Ireland with a small population which relies on tourism and they shut down the only hotel to house migrants who just hang around doing nothing and a very small subsection of these have being causing issues, drinking in the only local sports club and whistling at women (very small subsection), that being said some of the Irish native teenagers in Dublin are an absolute disgrace and are responsible for 99% of the issues.
Germany:
We now had 4 terms of a government which didn’t want to govern, two terms of a government which wanted to govern but sold us out to Russia during their terms and further 5 terms of governments which didn’t want to govern, but to administrate the status quo instead.
This results in a plethora of problems out of inaction:
1. demographics and retirement system – Germany has a huge demographic group which were the last children with many siblings. Those people left school at the start of this misery, always got support from the other generations and are now retiring or already retired. During this time, any of those governments would have had to make the decision to reform the German retirement system, as it’s foundation (few retirees, many working people) ended. They didn’t and so the majority of voters currently are retirees, fighting to stay retired, even though there is no retirement fund to do so. They are the only demographic you need to please to get into and stay in power. So larger and larger parts of the federal budget get diverted away from federal duties into the retirement insurance budget, jzst to deny this reality a little bit further.
2. Decades of lacking investment in infrastructure. Our roads crumble, the railroads are beyond repair and still rely on systems from the late 1800s, the current broadband internet goals in Germany are lower than the South Korean ones were in the 1990s. Mobile connectivity is still contracted on a share of households basis, so it’s not mandatory to cover sparsely populated parts of the country.
3. The energy policy to this day is a vanity project which defies technical realities. This leads to less and less stable supply at the world’s highest electricity prices.
4. Germany still has not reformed its education system into a system designed for a democracy. It’s centered around learning things by rote instead of teaching critical thinking, logic and media literacy.
This has several consequences, like a huge support for quackery, technophobia, relatively high chances of failure in the educational system and it still tries to enforce the social ranks of the German imperial era by vastly different educational chances depending on the parents abilities to support their children in school.
5. Germany has not come to terms with its 20th century history. This results in a focus on denial of the real possibility of war and the need to defend democracy (as the 2nd largest NATO member), a very anti-military mindset and high support to just give in to Russian demands, whatever they may be for the Nazi-era history and a huge part of the population which grew up to live in a dictatorship, which was taught on how to be an obedient citizen of a dictatorship, which was not educated well on the Nazi-era and the reasons it got so far and which was never fully reintegrated into a democratic German state for the GDR-era history.
6. A lack of large regulatory reforms. Germany adds regulations but almost never revokes them and especially doesn’t check for outdated or unnecessary regulation. Therefore, the first thing a new company needs is a large legal department and only once this is up and running, the new company can start to think about whatever they want to make money with. This makes it extremely hard to start a new business in Germany and make it profitable, too.
7. A lack of affordable housing.
No. 6 already explains a big part why, but it is not really wanted to resolve the housing crisis in Germany as solutions to it would oppose many regulations, like zoning, overkill building codes, etc.
This is so bad that New York has about 5 times as many available flats for rent per capita as Berlin has.
Getting caught up in the economy and concerns of bigger neighbors around us. Also: Fico. He’s everyone’s problem.
1. The orange man have basically declared war on our small country.
2. Dependence on non-aligned countries for Energy, and materials.
3. Europe’s inability to compete in the tech sector, resulting in loss of purchasing power, and bargaining power. And our data/social medial is controlled by external actors.
4. Europe’s/EU’s inability to make fast decisions, and act as one unit against outside forces.
5. The state of our military
6. Outside actors destabilizing Europe via. social media, activating political extremists, and migrants.
7. Demographics / Lack of skilled workers.
The Danish economy is currently good, but this can change if European economy gets worse.
There is little unemployment. Houses are expensive in cities where there is work.
The pension system is relative robust, since a lot of the economical risk has been moved from the state (pay as you go) to the retirees own pension plan. (No guaranteed payout)
Norway:
According to me: toll barriers
But I think non-western immigration and horrible integration policies are getting most focus due to the insane drain it has on our welfare system.
Very rapidly increasing costs of living, in particular in terms of rapidly rising food prices, rapidly rising rents and expensive electricity on top of high inflation. Also huge wealth inequality. Huge problems with segregation and failed integration. Great problems with gang crimes and brutal gang violence, and in particular the recruitment of very young teens into these gangs. Increasing mental health issues among young people. Increasing radicalization of young people, both within the far left, far right and Islamism. Huge problems within the school system, both in terms of education results and the well-being of students. Huge problems within healthcare and elderly care as well, with too little and way too overworked personnel, and very long wait lines. Just to mention a few things. Yeah, Sweden has got a lot of severe internal problems at the moment – and has had so for a very long time.
Sitting between growing American proto-fascism and isolationist tendencies and Ruzzian aggression and territorial expansion desires. Not a great place to be – not politically, military wise or economically. Everywhere you go people only talk about this shit….. a friend of mine in his 50s even rejoined the army. I hate this timeline.
His name is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
A wide network of organised corruption focused entirely of funnelling ludicrously lucrative government contracts to cronies, who then use the proceeds from said contracts to fuel a media empire, keeping him in power.
Blatant restricting of constitutional rights in ways not provided by the constitution, such as provincial governors limiting the right to movement and right to protest (these can normally only be restricted through acts of Parliament).
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House prices. They are becoming impossible compared to the salaries.
Also politicians saying we should leave NATO right now… in the 90s it wouldn’t be that much of an issue, but now?
Ireland. There aren’t enough houses, and we seem to have something against apartment living, so there aren’t enough of either being built.
Inflation, the interest on mortgages. Some people think we have too many non ethnic swedes that don’t know/care about the social contract and then infiltrate and implement corruption more normal in their cultures (or any other culture), but we are getting better att rooting out the problem (mostly family ethnic structures like christian syrians that use the system) and honestly a lot of people think it’s much just because it gets exposed.
Also our murder rate per capita has gone down but instead of knifing and beating each other to death people now tent to shoot opponents. Sometimes they shoot innocent people too. But fewer dead yay.
Otherwise we worry a bit about USA sucking Russian dick prepare our submarines and flirt with India.
House prices which translates into extremely low fertility rates, in addition, close proximity to Russia
Croatia
1. Massive corruption and nepotism, both state and private
2. Unregulated importation of forgain workers for profit
3. Mindset stuck on 40s and 90s times.
4. High housing prices. We are talking about 3000€/m^2 on average on a state median net salary of ~1200€
Bonus: Tax evasion on rent. Approximatly 90% of house owners (no joke, that’s the official approximation) will NOT report that they have a tenant and pocket the difference. And your Neighbours will not report them because “yOu NeVeR kNOw wHen YoU’LL nEEd hIs/heRs HElP”
Everything. But mainly housing. And by extent our tiny country seems to have reached the upper limits what it can take with the number of people living here, the housing shortage, shortages in many industries including healthcare while having a growing population but also our infrastructure is reaching the limits of its capacity. Even the politics seems to have reached its limits with left and right cant solving these major issues without upset at least a part of the population while we are used to our polder model; finding a compromise to work things out.
The Netherlands:
1. Housing. Housing is definitely the biggest issue we’re facing right now, especially the social housing sector.
2. Immigration. While I myself do not believe immigration is that big of an issue, it has become such a controversial topic that it’s crippled effective governance.
3. Environmental and climate concerns. A lot of new projects, including housing projects, can’t be realized because of their environmental impact. Especially nitrogen emissions seem to be a big issue.
4. The electric grid. Our current electric grid is overloaded. Which also has an impact on new projects being realized. And upgrades are extremely slow.
Incidentally, 2 3 and 4 all worsen our housing issues.
In Finland it’s unemployment and the fact that there is no source of growth for the situation to improve either. No capital, no ideas, no significant advantages to any other developed country and no political will to make meaningful structural improvements.
In Bulgaria I would say the centralisation of the economy in 5-6 urban areas. Everything else stems from that.
Corruption is hard to tackle because less advanced areas depend on the local feudal lords, as we call them, for jobs and even social services. This creates a powerful voting block that perpetuates corrupt politicians.
The government, when investing in public services, favours the economic core, which creates a vicious cycle for the periphery – less development leads to fewer investments, which leads to population decline and thus less public spending.
The end result is a very divided society, with stark differences between the rich and the poor. Residents of wealthy areas are resentful that they don’t get more say in politics, while those of poorer communities hate that they only get table scraps.
It’s not a healthy situation.
The ultra rich buying up all the houses making a housing crises, which aside from raising the price of houses out of reach for most people.
Has also had the domino effect of raising the price of everything.
Another effect of the hoarding and greed mental problem of the ultra rich is them stagnating wages at the same time, compounding the problem.
So basically, like the rest of the world. The only real problem we have is the ultra rich and their mental problems of greed and hoarding.
(im in iceland.)
Housing costs & increasing pressure on the working& middle class. Like other G20 countries house prices have far outrisen inflation which has done the same with wages. The majority of this burden falls on the working class but increasingly the middle class too. Ineffective governments mean our real wages haven’t risen since around 2007-8. If this isn’t fixed we will likely fall more and more to the far right as seen elsewhere. If this happens hopefully I’ll be gone by then.
The Netherlands. Until a few months ago, I would have answered climate change, probably followed by our housing crisis. But now, it is Trump. We lost the US as a valuable friend and ally, and see how many Americans not only have a very limited grasp of geopolitics, but are also very much ready to stab friends and allies in the back to alleviate some inflation – which doesn’t even work that way.
We have to completely redefine who our friends and allies are, and must prepare for the worst, because Trump is a terrible leader and could overtly switch sides to Russia any day now; nobody can convince me that hasn’t already happened covertly years ago. As a nation that is dependent on trade and the service sector, very highly integrated with the US on any level, Trump is problem #1.
Climate change will be devastating, but will take some decades to come into full effect, and the US turning fascist is a problem right fucking today.
The manipulation of public debate by govt, civil service and msm cabal with select academics in support.
Unemployment, especially amongst the youth, remains the biggest problem despite seeing some alleviation with the current government. Housing prices also went insane after Ukraine just like everywhere else in the Western world.
Romania. Corruption, huge gap between rich – middle – poor, lack of smart trade and poor productivity in industry, agriculture so on
Biggest problem is probably being rich country (having a wealth fund).. it means that every politician here believing every problem can be solved with more money.. not having to prioritize / looking for better way to solve a problem.. So maybe the way to solve the problems is the biggest problem..
So many problems related to that.. Like for years on years performing poorly in mathematics etc.. more and more money being spent in norwegian school.. still norwegian students performs poorly compared to other nations… could transfer that to so many fields of problem..
we have a problem -> sollution : spend more money -> some years later -> still having a problem.. maybe problem even worse..->new sollution : spend even more money -> ….
Germany
1. the people – don’t like the German attitude at all. Neither the „typical“ German attitude nor the „ironical“ anti attitude many younger people have!
2. the people – totaly submissive attitude towards state and society! Recognize how bad that is during the pandemics
3. Tax System, extensive state and bureucracy
Social security, mainly pensions and linked to that affordable healthcare and elderly care.
It boggles my mind that in timespan of weeks very far-reaching decisions about defence spending can be made, but for literally decades we have somehow been unable to guarantee a liveable pension to people who have worked 40+ years.
I’m not against having a solid military, but the ease with which billions of euros are conjured out of thin air amazes me.
1. Pensions / Demographics
2. Immigration
3. Housing
4. The state of our military
5. Taxes and insurances got way too expensive. Country is rich but the people are getting more and more poor.
6. Lack of skilled workers
e: the order is random, not inteded to sort by priorities.
e2: List is for germany
Germany:
1. Immigration
2. Our social security system, especially the pension system, is at the brink of collapse
france
One of our ex president is in trial for take money of a dictator for campaing.
the dictator was saying bad against him. As i can put you in jail.
So kill him, destroy the country.
Think about it next time u view corruption somewere 😉
PS Not in trial for the lybia destruction, just for money smugling and corruption in the way of political campaign.
7 years from public attorney , result from judge in some day.
And in the same time people are crazy about the poor and the colored.
Ah and yep as every country house…
Systemic political corruption, lack of affordable housing, job opportunities and wages not keeping up with the rising prices.
Hard to pick just one.
Netherlands
To many political parties.
To many inbetween people to get things done.
Protesters that keep asking for a raise and than have suprised Pikachu face when they still dont have enough money.
The state of healthcare. Many people around the world admire it and our politicians are letting it go to ruin.
The gap between the populations perceived safety and the actual safety.
You have nothing fear but fear itself.
Denmark: USA
Seriously, all of our other problems seems so small at the moment. Sure schools and healthcare needs more funding, inflation’s annoying and companies struggle to find employees but what’s really a problem is that we’re not a big ass country with a big ass army.
Denmark.
As with many other places: house prices
But honestly the biggest currently is the US basically threatening us with war.
Unemployment because industry was relying on low value bulk production rather than engineering more innovative refining of products.
Factories are constantly being shut because third world countries simply make good enough quality million times cheaper.
Unemployment in Finland is close to 10%
Housing and immigration. Houses are far too expensive and the younger generation can no longer afford them and the older generation like me who has kids cant afford what our parents had so we are in homes 1/2 the size.
Immigration because we imported tons of people from Morocco, Algeria, Somalia and never even attempted to integrate them. We let them in on humanitarian grounds and then just sot of pushed them off to the side… enough time passed and now they have full legal rights to stay but the next generation is practically feral and accounts for most of our serious crime. And we largely only have ourselves to blame. We allowed them in, we failed to integrate or push them to adopt our norms, we actively discriminated against them… including one massive government scandal where working families were maliciously targeted in a benefits crackdown that resulted years later in a govt apology. We were actively racist to them after letting them in now they hate us and we actively hate them and blame everything on them even stuff that has nothing to do with immigration… its a total mess.
Netherlands BTW.
In the UK it is the economic effect of BREXIT, which so miserably negotiated by Lord Frost for Alexander “BOZO” Johnson.
– Immigration, Integration, Crimes done by Muslim refugees
– Demographic shift, too many old people retiring and not enough pensions for them so they end in poverty, not enough people wanting kids
– Lack of skilled workers, lack of workers in care jobs (caring for the elderly, nurses, kindergarten) and those who work there are overworked and underpaid
– Too many people studying in university and not enough people wanting care jobs, not enough handyman
– Military is not good enough, we can’t really defend ourselves when attacked
– Internet is super slow, bureaucracy is terrible and most offices want letter or fax instead of mail because mails are not trustable
In my country there is problem,
And that problem is transport.
It take very very long,
Because Kazakhstan is big.
Throw transport down the well,
So my country can be free.
So my country can be free!
We must make travel easy,
Then we have a big party.
Corruption, nothing else even comes close to it and so many other problems stem from it, whether it’s the underfunded healthcare system, lacking social services, infrastructure not being built on time, the decaying justice system or the unhealthy political culture, all of that is because of corruption.
Not a European, but I find it very interesting that much of Europe seems to be struggling with housing much like where I live in the US: California. Many of the countries in the comments are dealing with issues similar to ours.
its called orban viktor.
his opposition had been calling out his head of the federal reserve for blatantly stealing and funneling taxpayer funds to his son and his friends. after 12 years as fed chair, he stepped down, his biggest in party rival got to his position, and now “suddenly” they realized that a FEW PERCENT of the country’s gdp has been literally stolen… and orban? he is quiet, he still talks about europe wanting war, only him fighting for peace, while having putin balls deep in is mouth.
Ireland- Housing by far
In recent times, illogical placement of refugees or economic migrants being placed into tiny towns with no real infrastructure or places to integrate with local community. I’m from a small village originally in the west coast of Ireland with a small population which relies on tourism and they shut down the only hotel to house migrants who just hang around doing nothing and a very small subsection of these have being causing issues, drinking in the only local sports club and whistling at women (very small subsection), that being said some of the Irish native teenagers in Dublin are an absolute disgrace and are responsible for 99% of the issues.
Germany:
We now had 4 terms of a government which didn’t want to govern, two terms of a government which wanted to govern but sold us out to Russia during their terms and further 5 terms of governments which didn’t want to govern, but to administrate the status quo instead.
This results in a plethora of problems out of inaction:
1. demographics and retirement system – Germany has a huge demographic group which were the last children with many siblings. Those people left school at the start of this misery, always got support from the other generations and are now retiring or already retired. During this time, any of those governments would have had to make the decision to reform the German retirement system, as it’s foundation (few retirees, many working people) ended. They didn’t and so the majority of voters currently are retirees, fighting to stay retired, even though there is no retirement fund to do so. They are the only demographic you need to please to get into and stay in power. So larger and larger parts of the federal budget get diverted away from federal duties into the retirement insurance budget, jzst to deny this reality a little bit further.
2. Decades of lacking investment in infrastructure. Our roads crumble, the railroads are beyond repair and still rely on systems from the late 1800s, the current broadband internet goals in Germany are lower than the South Korean ones were in the 1990s. Mobile connectivity is still contracted on a share of households basis, so it’s not mandatory to cover sparsely populated parts of the country.
3. The energy policy to this day is a vanity project which defies technical realities. This leads to less and less stable supply at the world’s highest electricity prices.
4. Germany still has not reformed its education system into a system designed for a democracy. It’s centered around learning things by rote instead of teaching critical thinking, logic and media literacy.
This has several consequences, like a huge support for quackery, technophobia, relatively high chances of failure in the educational system and it still tries to enforce the social ranks of the German imperial era by vastly different educational chances depending on the parents abilities to support their children in school.
5. Germany has not come to terms with its 20th century history. This results in a focus on denial of the real possibility of war and the need to defend democracy (as the 2nd largest NATO member), a very anti-military mindset and high support to just give in to Russian demands, whatever they may be for the Nazi-era history and a huge part of the population which grew up to live in a dictatorship, which was taught on how to be an obedient citizen of a dictatorship, which was not educated well on the Nazi-era and the reasons it got so far and which was never fully reintegrated into a democratic German state for the GDR-era history.
6. A lack of large regulatory reforms. Germany adds regulations but almost never revokes them and especially doesn’t check for outdated or unnecessary regulation. Therefore, the first thing a new company needs is a large legal department and only once this is up and running, the new company can start to think about whatever they want to make money with. This makes it extremely hard to start a new business in Germany and make it profitable, too.
7. A lack of affordable housing.
No. 6 already explains a big part why, but it is not really wanted to resolve the housing crisis in Germany as solutions to it would oppose many regulations, like zoning, overkill building codes, etc.
This is so bad that New York has about 5 times as many available flats for rent per capita as Berlin has.
Getting caught up in the economy and concerns of bigger neighbors around us. Also: Fico. He’s everyone’s problem.
1. The orange man have basically declared war on our small country.
2. Dependence on non-aligned countries for Energy, and materials.
3. Europe’s inability to compete in the tech sector, resulting in loss of purchasing power, and bargaining power. And our data/social medial is controlled by external actors.
4. Europe’s/EU’s inability to make fast decisions, and act as one unit against outside forces.
5. The state of our military
6. Outside actors destabilizing Europe via. social media, activating political extremists, and migrants.
7. Demographics / Lack of skilled workers.
The Danish economy is currently good, but this can change if European economy gets worse.
There is little unemployment. Houses are expensive in cities where there is work.
The pension system is relative robust, since a lot of the economical risk has been moved from the state (pay as you go) to the retirees own pension plan. (No guaranteed payout)
Norway:
According to me: toll barriers
But I think non-western immigration and horrible integration policies are getting most focus due to the insane drain it has on our welfare system.
Very rapidly increasing costs of living, in particular in terms of rapidly rising food prices, rapidly rising rents and expensive electricity on top of high inflation. Also huge wealth inequality. Huge problems with segregation and failed integration. Great problems with gang crimes and brutal gang violence, and in particular the recruitment of very young teens into these gangs. Increasing mental health issues among young people. Increasing radicalization of young people, both within the far left, far right and Islamism. Huge problems within the school system, both in terms of education results and the well-being of students. Huge problems within healthcare and elderly care as well, with too little and way too overworked personnel, and very long wait lines. Just to mention a few things. Yeah, Sweden has got a lot of severe internal problems at the moment – and has had so for a very long time.
Sitting between growing American proto-fascism and isolationist tendencies and Ruzzian aggression and territorial expansion desires. Not a great place to be – not politically, military wise or economically. Everywhere you go people only talk about this shit….. a friend of mine in his 50s even rejoined the army. I hate this timeline.
His name is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
A wide network of organised corruption focused entirely of funnelling ludicrously lucrative government contracts to cronies, who then use the proceeds from said contracts to fuel a media empire, keeping him in power.
Blatant restricting of constitutional rights in ways not provided by the constitution, such as provincial governors limiting the right to movement and right to protest (these can normally only be restricted through acts of Parliament).
So on and so forth.