Berlin is now in a position to usurp London as the startup capital of Europe

Post by rsynnott » Mon, Jun 27, 2016, 10:32 PM UTC

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Immigration system for skilled workers is not going to change. If the UK actually does leave the EU, they'll replace EU rules of skilled immigration with something similar. The UK is a knowledge economy, it will always be open to skilled immigrants. Yet people actually believe that the UK will close down all immigration. It's absurd.

This is the attitude which caught the remain campaign flat-footed - the sense that what we traditionally believed about the UK can't change. We want to snuggle up in our blankets and think nothing can go wrong. But this referendum had legal force and won by a large margin, which is how things do change. Legal aspects aside, this referendum was also a shot across the bow to foreigners. To have such a large majority ex…

Post by type0 » Mon, Jun 27, 2016, 10:54 PM UTC

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Geographic/country classification, languages and genetic roots all mesh differently in this case. Languagewise the Baltic countries apart from Estonia have Slavic majority languages. Biologically Finnish genetic makeup comes from a mix of Sami, Swedish & ugric peoples and is quite diverse [1] but does have a lot of overlap with Estonians. Culturally Finland differs due to having avoided Soviet occupation. [1] https:/…

Your argument is sadly still not clear to me. Some one asked is Estonia a nordic country, I said that in my book it as much as one as Finland because those 2 countries share an ethnic bound that is probably stronger than what Finland shares with Denmark.

Post by kiiski » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 6:03 AM UTC

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Don't know about that[1] but Skype founders were Swedish & Danish and Estonia is close by. [1] "consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries

Finnish is not a Nordic language, while Estonian is a Finnic language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages Ethically Finland is a Baltic nation rather than a Nordic one, It's also was never a part of the 3 monarchies of Scandinavia until the more modern use of Scandinavia for tourism. Hence my reply to "Does Estonia count as a Nordic state" question :)

Post by deciplex » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 8:22 AM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #126

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Don't know about that[1] but Skype founders were Swedish & Danish and Estonia is close by. [1] "consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries

Finnish is not a Nordic language, while Estonian is a Finnic language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages Ethically Finland is a Baltic nation rather than a Nordic one, It's also was never a part of the 3 monarchies of Scandinavia until the more modern use of Scandinavia for tourism. Hence my reply to "Does Estonia count as a Nordic state" question :)

Post by collyw » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 11:54 AM UTC

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Shouldn't we hope that something does? By all accounts, the house price situation in London has become bad enough that it's wiping out the middle class, which is very bad news; the rise of the middle class was a key factor in enabling the transition from feudal society to modern civilization. But while I'm here, I'll throw in a shameless plug: Dublin is still in the EU, and is an English-speaking capital city with mo…

> a pleasant climate I've heard that washing your car in Ireland is a non-issue; the climate takes care of that.