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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by czzr on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:35AM (#25359589)
Eastern Europe, presumably?
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by _prototype_ on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:56AM (#25359913)
Central Europe actually
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by Thimothy on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:10AM (#25360115)
For the unaware, Central Europe is a narrow band that comprises Czechs, Slovaks and Polish. Who can get very offended if you even dare to suggest that they belong to Eastern Europe.
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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by trasz on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:34AM (#25360436)
The term "Central Europe" makes sense when talking about stuff common to Central Europe, in particular Germany. Otherwise, the term you want here is Eastern Europe.

And yes, there is this particular kind of people who feel offended by this. Largely the same people who get offended by gay marriage. Why should we care?

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by _visgean on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:17PM (#25360957)
No the term has a various definitions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe the person

people might get offended because you are wrong.

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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by trasz on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:47PM (#25361328)
It doesn't. The map in the infobox sums it up pretty well. Poland is both Eastern Europe and Central Europe, but there's no point in using the latter term when describing something that doesn't apply to all of Central Europe.
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