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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by maigret on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:01AM (#27891444)
Or Switzerland or Belgium. I'd argue that, by now, there are more differences (cultural, economic, political...) between parts of the countries, like cities vs countryside, than between countries.
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by joelbluminator on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:58AM (#27891813)
Isnt belgium unable to form a government for years? I don't know that Belgium is a diversity succeess story.
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by tut-urut-utut on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:28AM (#27892929)
What's wrong with not having the government? It looks like Belgium functions quite well on an administrative level that it doesn't really need a "government".
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by joelbluminator on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:41AM (#27893016)
A lot of countries would have loved to be Belgium, I agree. But we're making the case whether national diversity is good or not. If Belgium would have split to the flemish and french parts - why would that have been worse?
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by tut-urut-utut on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:53PM (#27924185)
Why would that be better if they split. Maybe they would have been swallowed by big neighbours and end up being a poor provinces.

Same for Switzerland, I just can’t imagine they would have it better if they split to four national states.

At least in those two cases national diversity worked great.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by joelbluminator on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:48PM (#27925726)
It's up to the citizens to decide if it works out great, not up to you or I. So far they grudgingly continue with how things are but at least in Belgium it seems to me to be more about inertia and fear of change than anything else. You can check out this entertaining video (english subs) to see the current state of things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go1RXOBF0s
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by biscotte_ on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:34AM (#27892067)
Not really... take a look at the average salary in Romania and compare to France of Luxembourg ...
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