Am not saying was British fault, but please stop coming to my face like you saved Europe. Cause you did not. You were saving your own ass, while abusing your vassal states and getting enormous help from USA. Americans saved western Europe, not Brits. You were just a side player. Get over, old days of glory empire are long time ago gone.
We had 50 years of communism. For many east Europeans Germany victory would transfer in higher living standards today. And i say this as someone coming from strong anti fascist and anti communist family.
Victory is ofc written by winners. Enough of this.
Brexit shows everything what is wrong about with west. West is in distractions going on for last 20 years, starting with bombing Afghanistan, Iraq. West deals with unimportant politics, while third worlds dictatorship countries are on the rise, sharing more and more of world GDP and becoming aggressive as never before. Russia and China are serious threats and EU does nothing about it.
I do agree, more should be done within EU, there is lack of proper leadership indeed. But is by far best international union connecting such various nations and economies with really huge gap in productivity.
I take my EU passport over American passport or Chinese passport anytime. Many state members offer available national health care, high level of freedom, clean environment and good earning potential.
I do not know about numbers, but i lived around east Europe, in few countries. I never got food poison there, but i got it in Taiwan like 5 times. Ending up in hospital for few days. From personal experience i always feel Taiwan is much more dirty. With hell with political correctness, Chinese people have low hygiene standards
When you mention Romania, was there with Romanian gf, terrible infrastructure and corrupted state indeed. But farmers sell their food properly on morning market and meat was in refrigerator. No one tried to scam me. While in Taiwan… buying on fresh market is like travelling back to middle ages.