Overseas elections. SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS. Please.

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58. Not the EU completely, but it could affect the euro and Schengen

Both the Euro and Schengen were expanded too quickly, and to some countries whose inclusion
endangered the whole concept. The idea of expanding the EU so rapidly in the first place was the
idea of a few huge multinational companies who suddenly had the right to put local workers out
on the street, close up shop and rebuild their facories with far cheaper labor and costs in the
eastern countries of the EU. Nokia, for example, closed up an immense plant here in Germany,
put thousands out of work, and rebuilt their factory in dirt cheap Romania. Great idea for Nokia.
Now that Romania is in the EU, they could build their phones and still sell them everywhere in the
EU with no customs issues to worry about.

Only: the Romanians were totally unfamiliar with quality control, and a third of their Romanian-built
phones were unsalable. Nokia soon closed their Romanian factory and moved their production to China.

On edit: I, for one, would not object at all if France were to re-institute stricter border controls. I am
sick and tired of being accosted at the Gare du Nord by brigades of trained underage Romanian girls who
have been taught to approach people as they emerge from trains to offer them phony stuff. They leave
me alone when I blow them off in Romanian, but how many people know enough Romanian to do that?