View Poll Results: What you'd like to see for Germanic countries

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  • Only greater economic cooperation

    13 9.92%
  • Only greater cultural exchange

    12 9.16%
  • Greater cultural exchange & economic cooperation

    39 29.77%
  • A Germanic Union without common currency

    12 9.16%
  • A Germanic Union with common currency

    8 6.11%
  • A common Germanic nation (unification)

    22 16.79%
  • None/Other

    25 19.08%
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    Veteran Member The Lawspeaker's Avatar
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    I would like to ask for this thread to be purged and moved to the new Germanic group.



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    As one said above, I think that the only good germanic union would be the Benelux union.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker View Post
    Err.. Albion. Before WWII French (for the higher educated people) and German were considered the principal languages in the Dutch curriculum (fewer people learned to speak proper English than German) and the country was culturally and economically and focussed on Germany and our colonies. After WWII we purged our language from the old Germanesque spelling and switched focussing on the Anglophone world instead. After WWII with it's 205.000 to 300.000 Dutch deaths the Dutch had quite enough of the Germans for a while. That only changed after the 1970s. It would be fair to say that when it came to an entire generation of Dutch the Germans quite simply f...cked it: we went from one of the most pro-German nations* in Europe to perhaps the most anti-German nation in Western Europe for a period of some 30 to 40 years.


    *(well think of it: before WWII Dutch-Belgian relations were appalling, Dutch-British relations frankly couldn't be worse (Boer Wars -Dutch have a notoriously long memory) and Franco-Dutch relations were.. well not exactly in a good shape since the French were our traditional enemies)


    And beside: "impose" our language on the colonies ? That's why so few Indonesians speak Dutch then. Frankly: we couldn't give a toss about what language they spoke and what god they prayed to as long as they made us money.
    Having seen what a snake pit much of Europe is, I think it would be better for us to return to the old policy of neutrality in Europe. The Netherlands should work with the Germanic countries through its Benelux membership and be exchanging EU membership for that of the EFTA and through that, the EEA (being smarter than the British by keeping our full access to the Common Market). People may complain that we will have to swallow the EU's rules and regulations: we are 17 million strong, population wise, we don't have a voice anyway, but at least we keep a reasonable amount of sovereignty, and we can start by negotiating for opt-outs like Denmark currently has, and keep those opt-outs in an exit treaty. After that, we can focus more on overseas trade and economic and cultural collaboration with the former overseas colonies. On the military front, I propose rearmament and leaving NATO.



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    I have actually nothing to do with other Germanic countries. Maybe culturally with Austria and Switzerland. I lived very close to the Netherlands and Belgium, but I don´t think they are that close culturally. Maybe a bit. There must me similarities of course.

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