Hurray for Europe! New Bank Holiday proposed

Sabre0001

Want another day off? While not knee deep in Brexit talks, the EU has discussed the idea of an extra public holiday in May. Europe Day will fall on May 9th, which isn't ideal if you were hoping that the new bank holiday would break up the year a bit more, but I'm always happy to have another 4 day week.

The rationale is "not for the sake of holidays but so that we can show our unity and fight for our values." And this time, I'm OK with political spin

https://www.euractiv.com/section/future-eu/news/europe-day-initiative-calls-for-9-may-to-become-public-holiday/
https://www.joe.ie/news/europe-day-bank-holiday-656693

jimgoose

BrokenArrows

Maybe its in celebration of Theresa May no longer being in the union?

Liam McPoyle

Ohh, look at this Britain, don't leave and you get a shiny new bank holiday for everyone.

ancapailldorcha

Business Cat wrote: »

Ohh, look at this Britain, don't leave and you get a shiny new bank holiday for everyone.

Ah come on. No need to rub it in.

DEFTLEFTHAND

They're really pushing hard on this Union thing these days. Feels almost like soviet era propaganda.

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit. Could spark a chain reaction and they know it.

Red_Wake

Hot damn that's good european workers' rights.

Fr Tod Umptious

Business Cat wrote: »

Ohh, look at this Britain, don't leave and you get a shiny new bank holiday for everyone.

Which is bad for the Irish hospitality industry because if the UK had another bank holiday it would be another weekend that UK residents could use to visit Ireland.

ArchXStanton

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They're really pushing hard on this Union thing these days. Feels almost like soviet era propaganda.

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit. Could spark a chain reaction and they know it.

Trying to buy off the euro sceptics, they remind me of those little green fellas doing construction in the Fraggles, little empire builders while everyone was going around doing their normal thing, blissfully unaware..

BBDBB

will the pubs be open or closed on this new Bank Holiday?

Dyr

To Celebrate Europe becoming a Brit free zone?

super_furry

If there's one thing Brexit has done, it's made me feel more European. A day to recognise and celebrate the Union would be class.

orourkeda1977

BBDBB wrote: »

will the pubs be open or closed on this new Bank Holiday?

They dont need a bank holiday to close down.

Theyre doing a good enough job of that on their own

recyclebin

Ireland has one of the lowest annual leave and public holiday entitlements in EU at 20+9. Another public holiday would be great news.

recyclebin

UK already has lowest at 20+8.

Timberrrrrrrr

recyclebin wrote: »

UK already has lowest at 20+8.

I honestly dont know anyone here in the uk on 20 days annual leave.

LordBasil

They should make January 21st a Bank Holiday in Ireland as it is the Anniversary of the First Dail meeting. They can call it 'Irish Independence Day' or something. Plus it would break up gloomy January and cheer us up that week every year.

Crock Rock

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They're really pushing hard on this Union thing these days. Feels almost like soviet era propaganda.

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit. Could spark a chain reaction and they know it.

Which will never happen. United in Diversity. Together we stand. I love the EU.

Wheety

Should have it on March 29th.

Balanadan

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

I honestly dont know anyone here in the uk on 20 days annual leave.

I know loads of people in the UK on 20 days annual leave.

SEPT 23 1989

LordBasil wrote: »

They should make January 21st a Bank Holiday in Ireland as it is the Anniversary of the First Dail meeting. They can call it 'Irish Independence Day' or something. Plus it would break up gloomy January and cheer us up that week every year.

they are not the thoughts a good european should have

Hotblack Desiato

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Which is bad for the Irish hospitality industry because if the UK had another bank holiday it would be another weekend that UK residents could use to visit Ireland.

How do you figure that out? Pubs and hotels here do their best trade on public holiday weekends. 1 more public holiday = 1 more opportunity for Irish people to take a short break in Ireland.

Plus, nothing to stop the UK (or Ireland) adding more public holidays any time it wants, every EU country except the UK already has more than us.

Don't really care when it is as long as it's on a Monday every year. They should move Paddy's Day to the nearest Monday and fix the date of Easter while they're at it (RCC has no theological objection to fixing the date of Easter, before anyone asks)

lawred2

Sounds good to me

lawred2

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

they are not the thoughts a good european should have

Never heard of Bastille day at all?

Hotblack Desiato

sarcasm or stupidity - you decide

Franz Von Peppercorn

Business Cat wrote: »

Ohh, look at this Britain, don't leave and you get a shiny new bank holiday for everyone.

They already have two May holidays. Three would be crazy. Then nothing until the end of August.

What Ireland really needs is a July bank holiday.

Your Face

Old enough article on where we stand in Europe.

https://www.thejournal.ie/bank-holidays-ireland-europe-3363195-Apr2017/

suicide_circus

EU =/= Europe

branie2

Great news

VeVeX

Crock Rock wrote: »

Which will never happen. United in Diversity. Together we stand. I love the EU.

You need a day in a mental health professionals chair not a bank holiday.

conorhal

God we're easily bought. Talk about bread and circuses.

The Euro! No more exchange rate confusion guys! (and a one size fits all ECB boot on your throat with a German foot in it)

This new bank holiday proposal will no doubt gain Europe many plaudits, while nobody's talking about this:
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-sound-the-alarm-a-proposed-eu-directive-on-bad-loans-will-give-the-vulture-funds-a-free-rein-4451105-Jan2019/

"It is time to sound the alarm on a proposed European Commission Directive, which aims to develop a secondary market for non-performing loans, and poses a serious threat to the rights of borrowers and consumers.

This proposed EU Directive is designed to promote the use of vulture funds and mortgage securitisation vehicles. (Mortgage-backed securities are created when individual mortgages are sliced up and bundled together into packages that can be traded on by investors, the idea is that betting on the return of the bundled, securitised vehicle is less risky than betting on a single mortgage.)

The directive aims to move this bad debt off the banks’ balance sheets and into the opaque and unregulated shadow banking sector. It will also restrict the right of EU Member States to impose their own regulations on vulture funds*."

Now why does this plan feel familiar?

Could it be that, as the author points out this EU proposal is nothing less than a second bailout for the banks. Worse, the EU wants to crank up casino banking with exactly the same bundled mortgage debt securities that collapsed western economies in 2008.
All that's required for these securities to go tits up again creating another major financial crisis would be a housing bubble with people getting loans for properties they can barely afford (which definitely isn't happening again folks!).
* But this time the vultures will be assured that when things tank, there will be no pesky legal obstacle to keep them picking the flesh from your bones.

The EU clearly don't give a fig about the consequences for anybody but bankers and big business, who will be working so hard to ruin you that they'll need an extra day off from doing so.

So enjoy your day off folks, it will probably be an expensive one.

Junkyard Tom

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They're really pushing hard on this Union thing these days. Feels almost like soviet era propaganda.

Stupid statement. They didn't really need propaganda in the USSR, if you were a problem as an individual they just got rid of you and if you tried to break away as a country they just invaded.

Britain joined voluntarily and is leaving voluntarily.

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit.

Why would a new model of post-globalist prosperity be bad for anyone?

Robert Wolfe

super_furry wrote: »

If there's one thing Brexit has done, it's made me feel more European. A day to recognise and celebrate the Union would be class.

That's pathetic.

ArchXStanton

Robert Wolfe wrote: »

That's pathetic.

Yeah this whole European identity is a bit too forced and artifical, you would swear they are trying to build another US...

I'd be terrified if these goons ever got an army

Whirl_wolle

I love bank holidays. I find bank holidays are great for catching up with jobs around the house. Or if it's dry outside, putting the washing machine on overtime and get as much out on the line and dry. I think we definitely need a few more in Ireland.

A proposed bank holiday for May the 9th is a complete back of sh1t for us though. I can very much see the Irish government pulling a fast one and merging it into the May bank holiday and that will be that. It won't be an extra bank holiday at all, at all.

facehugger99

Whirl_wolle wrote: »

I find bank holidays are great for catching up with jobs around the house. Or if it's dry outside, putting the washing machine on overtime and get as much out on the line and dry.

Worst Bank Holiday idea ever.

KungPao

facehugger99 wrote: »

Worst Bank Holiday idea ever.

Tuesday morning in work after bank holiday:

“Morning! Have a good weekend? Great having the extra day, eh?

“Yeah, I enjoyed it, washed and dried all my pants”.

Thomas_IV

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

They already have two May holidays. Three would be crazy. Then nothing until the end of August.

What Ireland really needs is a July bank holiday.

Commemorate the Truce of 11th July 1921?

Thomas_IV

ArchXStanton wrote: »

Yeah this whole European identity is a bit too forced and artifical, you would swear they are trying to build another US...

I'd be terrified if these goons ever got an army

Certainly not to me cos ethnically as well as culturally I am also European by birth and ancestry too. Above all, I rather prefer to live in a Europe with the EU as the binding organisation than in times when Europe was torn apart in wars over centuries and worst of them all during the 20th century.

Just have a look at countries at war and the many refugees who came to Europe in the past couple of years were fleeing the war in their home countries.

Gringo180

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit. Could spark a chain reaction and they know it.

I would ****ing love that. The unelected in Brussels who are making decisions on our behalf would be seething.

Thomas_IV

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They're really pushing hard on this Union thing these days. Feels almost like soviet era propaganda.

The worst case scenario is Britain prospering post brexit. Could spark a chain reaction and they know it.

Sure and this is why


https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47060676

Barclays shifts billions of pounds to Dublin because of Brexit

I don't see that as an act of panicking, I rather see it as a means of precaution.

I presume that many others have done the same already.

This Brexit folly of the Brits is something of a big chance for the Republic of Ireland to make the best out of it for herself by taking the chances right along the way. After all, the Brits have brought it all on to themselves by themselves. Nobody forced Brexit on them but their own Brexiteers.

Thomas_IV

Gringo180 wrote: »

I would ****ing love that. The unelected in Brussels who are making decisions on our behalf would be seething.

The 'unelected' in Brussels are sent there by their own national governments of the member states in the first place. So, one should just take a loot at back home as well before always putting the blame on the bureaucrats in Brussles alone. Nothing goes in the EU without the consent of the member states, but anti-EU propagandists love to omit that fact on purpose.

Hotblack Desiato

They've been playing that game in Westminster for the last 40+ years

Take credit domestically for anything good that comes from the EU. You don't see the EU logo on signs for EU-funded projects in the UK, like you do here.

Blame the EU for anything that's unpopular with certain vested interests, even though a UK minister or prime minister agreed to it, and even though (like workers' rights, food standards or fishing quotas) it's clearly for the greater benefit of the greater number of people.


I have to admit to an element of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuIHuOLcg38

ArchXStanton

Thomas_IV wrote: »

Certainly not to me cos ethnically as well as culturally I am also European by birth and ancestry too. Above all, I rather prefer to live in a Europe with the EU as the binding organisation than in times when Europe was torn apart in wars over centuries and worst of them all during the 20th century.

Just have a look at countries at war and the many refugees who came to Europe in the past couple of years were fleeing the war in their home countries.

The EU is a project about power just wrapped up under the guise of a trading bloc/peace project, I'm not the only one to notice ever since the financial crash its really started to flex its muscles.

I've said this before but under no circumstances should it be allowed to militarize, something it's quite eager and moving at breathtaking speed to do, I'd give it a year or two before the new army is sent on regime change/meddling missions creating hordes of refugees.

Thomas_IV

ArchXStanton wrote: »

The EU is a project about power just wrapped up under the guise of a trading bloc/peace project, I'm not the only one to notice ever since the financial crash its really started to flex its muscles.

I've said this before but under no circumstances should it be allowed to militarize, something it's quite eager and moving at breathtaking speed to do, I'd give it a year or two before the new army is sent on regime change/meddling missions creating hordes of refugees.

Utter bollix.

ArchXStanton

Thomas_IV wrote: »

Utter bollix.

You think, they were quick to jump on the Maduro bad bandwagon, even going so far as to tell him to hold fresh elections in the next 8 days, that's some neck in fairness... But of course we all know what happens when you don't vote the EU way!

Thomas_IV

ArchXStanton wrote: »

You think, they were quick to jump on the Maduro bad bandwagon, even going so far as to tell him to hold fresh elections in the next 8 days, that's some neck in fairness... But of course we all know what happens when you don't vote the EU way!

All you said is more to be expected from Trump et al than from the EU.

donaghs

ArchXStanton wrote: »

The EU is a project about power just wrapped up under the guise of a trading bloc/peace project, I'm not the only one to notice ever since the financial crash its really started to flex its muscles.

I've said this before but under no circumstances should it be allowed to militarize, something it's quite eager and moving at breathtaking speed to do, I'd give it a year or two before the new army is sent on regime change/meddling missions creating hordes of refugees.

An extra holiday could lighten the load of the Brexit economic poltical disruption. :rolleyes:

The financial crash showed when its us against the EU, we have to accept what they want.
Our tax system is a big target now. Especially with after losing the biggest ally on this front, i.e. the UK.

The military thing is becoming a real worry. France led the charge into Libya, and were strongest pushing for action against Assad. Their exploits in defending their post-colonial system in Africa are not as well known but worth a read. e.g. Emperor Bokassa. Or even their role in Rwanda, defending the Francophonie?

so we have an EU currency, EU immigration policies, an EU parliament, EU courts, EU embassies and now a proposed EU army and EU national day.

Federal Europe ever closer union seems to be flowing nicely

ArchXStanton

Aegir wrote: »

so we have an EU currency, EU immigration policies, an EU parliament, EU courts, EU embassies and now a proposed EU army and EU national day.

Federal Europe ever closer union seems to be flowing nicely

Don't forget Flag and anthem... Not bad for a trading bloc...

Franz Von Peppercorn

Thomas_IV wrote: »

Certainly not to me cos ethnically as well as culturally I am also European by birth and ancestry too. Above all, I rather prefer to live in a Europe with the EU as the binding organisation than in times when Europe was torn apart in wars over centuries and worst of them all during the 20th century.

Just have a look at countries at war and the many refugees who came to Europe in the past couple of years were fleeing the war in their home countries.

There’s far too many cultures to define European that easily.