Europe Is Actually Five Different Groups of Countries
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a fast, entertaining explanation of EU membership tiers when EU politics comes up.
What it is
A short CGP Grey explainer on the overlapping and inconsistent membership arrangements of European countries across the EU, Schengen, the euro and the EEA. It shows why "the EU" is full of exceptions.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites Perseids · 2014-11 · on “Kurzgesagt Information Design”
Also, in contrast to their website, their Youtube channel only contains educational videos and no promotional material. They also have a German channel [1], which unfortunately is not up to date with the English one, though. If you like this kind of dense educational videos I can recommend C.G.P. Grey's [2], Crashcourse's [3] and Henry Reich's [4] channels. I'm fascinated by this new avenue of educational material as it can provide the best parts of both books and tv if done well: You can pause and play back any parts you have difficulties to understand or want to think through more thoroughly and you have the benefit of both visual and auditive information channels in parallel. For example
Cites Kim_Bruning · 2021-12 · on “Brexit: ‘the biggest disaster any government has ever negotiated’”
Can you provide some examples? As far as I know there are many countries that cooperate with the EU but are not a part of it, based on many levels of compromise. (This video proposes we replace the european flag's stars with asterisks for all the exceptions and compromises! [this video] ) In fact the UK took several of those types/levels of cooperation into consideration and rejected each. (Here's a quick video overview of that [LINK] )
Cites dijit · 2022-05 · on “Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11”
Thanks for taking the time to think about it. > Democracy itself always gives rights to the majority against the will of the minority. this is true and it has a name I believe; the "Tyranny of the Majority", I think. > The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, being _more democratic_ ultimately lends itself to being this way. However one neat trick the EU has (and I promise I'm not trying to spin this as pro-EU, as it's only in one place): is that the direct votes are split propor