The European Union - the New Soviet Union?

[makedonche]

Onur
I commend your President for standing up for his country against the neihbour of "State of denial"( Greece or any relation to Greece/Greeks) taking over the rotating EU Presidency. What an absolute farcical situation that would create! Futhermore I think Turkey may well have an ally in Britain, against "EU Autocracy" spreading it's influence any further without due democratic dilligence!

[George S.]

AR least the turks are respecting us as a people & not like the greeks who are in constant denial.

[Onur]

Latest EU propaganda video.

Aryan babe, representing the EU, takes on sinister dark-skinned assailants;
Growing together - YouTube

[George S.]

the best video for me is when this piece of garbage greece gets booted out of the eu.Think of the umtold damage it has done to macedonia greece has to go.

[Risto the Great]

What a ridiculous video.
You can never trust a chick in a yellow jumpsuit but you know she will always put out. A bit like Europe nowadays.

[makedonche]

Originally Posted by Onur

Latest EU propaganda video.

Aryan babe, representing the EU, takes on sinister dark-skinned assailants;
Growing together - YouTube

Onur
I liken the yellow jumpsuit to a cancer.......eventually engulfing everything it surrounds!

[Macedonian Sun]

That video is just plain wrong! It implies the E.U. is surrounded by enemies - Asia, Africa & the Middle East. We need no part in this two faced, double standard lying, cheating, piece of dried up dog shit euroslave union!

[Onur]

The racist EU propaganda video became a scandal and EU removed the video from all of their web sites in 48 hours and the link above here is dead atm. It turned out that Brussels spend 127.000 Euros of taxpayers money for this fiasco.

EU learns perils of viral communication
The European Commission was left red-faced on Tuesday (6 March) after a video clip meant to promote the benefits of enlargement was interpreted by several viewers as being xenophobic.

The short clip, entitled 'growing together', features an attractive woman, representing a peaceful Europe. She looks on in something like exasperation as three burly men enter the desolate building where she is standing and prance about aggressively.

An Asian man springs from the rafters dressed in martial arts gear, a turbaned-Sultan levitates with a long curved sword and a dread-locked black man kicks down the door and somersaults over to her.

Whereupon 'Europe', dressed head-to-toe in yellow, takes a deep breath and multiplies herself so she is surrounding them. Her calm, the clip implies, gets everyone to be a little less aggressive. Then they all sit in a big circle. The many Europes on the outside and the three would-be aggressors in the middle. After which the three men disappear and the woman - all 12 of her - morphs into the stars of the European Union flag.

The clip ends with the line "the more we are the stronger we are," alluding to the fact that EU is going to take on its 28th member this year (Croatia), and several more countries are due to enter in future.

Costing €127,000 to make, and approved by officials in the commission's enlargement department, the short ad was designed for audiences of 16-24 years and is supposed to portray enlargement positively.

But the message went awry.

Several viewers suggested the ad is xenophobic. In the few short days it was up, it even developed its own sub-narrative under which the three men were purportedly representing the so-called Brics countries - China, Brazil and India - the EU's geopolitical rivals.

The commission says the characters were chosen to represent the martial arts genres Kung Fu, Capoeira and Kalaripayattu.

"It started with demonstration of their skills and ended with all characters showing their mutual respect, concluding in a position of peace and harmony," said a statement.

"The clip was absolutely not intended to be racist and we obviously regret that it has been perceived in this way."

It has now been removed.

Peter Stano, enlargement spokesperson, admitted that it is difficult to anticipate how people are going to perceive such an ad, particularly as neither the audience nor the message can be controlled and social networks means word - good or bad - spreads instantly.

Referring to the film as internet Kill Bill, after the eponymous film, he indicated that the those who were "not meant to be the target group" were the ones complaining most vociferously.

"We have to think about this internally and see what is the best way forward. Because it is necessary to be informed about Europe."

euobserver.com/843/115503

[Voltron]

And what the hell is wrong with that ? I personally dont want Paki's and Indi's running amok over here. We should have a quota in order for each country to preseve it culture. Preference is not racism. God I cant stand liberals....

[George S.]

yes there should be a quota,if immigration goes unchecked the indians or pakis willl take over.