Without the EU there would be no Angry Birds!

[PurpleGorilla]

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Why did Angry Birds fly? Thanks to European cooperation | Kati Levoranta | Opinion | The Guardian

Makes you wonder how Google and Amazon survive....

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[GJABS]

The article suggests that the EU allowed the Finland-based company behind Angry birds to recruit developers from around Europe. This is true. But it would be wrong to suggest that the EU was a requirement for this; as an alternative, the Finland national government could have allowed the company to do that recruitment from Europe, without any involvement with the EU. The only requirement being that Finland was not a member of the EU.
The EU does not prevent people in EU member nations from working outside the EU - at least not yet. Though if it becomes any more stazi-like it might start to.

[Flashman]

The rolling European Disaster Mechanism known as the 'euro' has had a little fun with Finland.

....The euro has also robbed the economy of the freedom to devalue its currency - the tried and tested instrument the Finns have used to extricate themselves from the midsts of their deepest depressions.

The Finns were one of the first economies to follow Britain’s lead and abandon the inter-war Gold Standard in 1931. They also moved to a free floating exchange rate at the height of a banking crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s. In the aftermath of both episodes, the country was able to get back on its feet through reflationary export-led booms.

Coupled with the declining fortunes in erstwhile national giant Nokia, and economic crisis in neighbouring Russia, Finland's likely outgoing premier Alexander Stubb, has bemoaned a “lost decade” under the monetary union.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...o-project.html

Finexit !

[darmstadt]

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Why did Angry Birds fly? Thanks to European cooperation | Kati Levoranta | Opinion | The Guardian

Makes you wonder how Google and Amazon survive....

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Well Google was co-founded by an immigrant: Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist (not AtW) and Amazon relies on a lot of low paid immigrants to work in their warehouses...

[PurpleGorilla]

Well Google was co-founded by an immigrant: Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist (not AtW) and Amazon relies on a lot of low paid immigrants to work in their warehouses...

Apple then, or Facebook, or Microsoft...

[AtW]

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Why did Angry Birds fly? Thanks to European cooperation | Kati Levoranta | Opinion | The Guardian

Makes you wonder how Google and Amazon survive....

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Do you think there would have been Google or Amazon existing if USA was split into separate states???

There is a reason why there are no equivalent companies in EU.

[Mordac]

If it's angry birds you want, just send FLC into a room full of women. Jobby doney.

[PurpleGorilla]

Do you think there would have been Google or Amazon existing if USA was split into separate states???

There is a reason why there are no equivalent companies in EU.

California on its own would do just fine.

[FatLazyContractor]

If it's angry birds you want, just send FLC into a room full of women. Jobby doney.

They will be, as they won't be able to match my performance.

[Mordac]

They will be, as they won't be able to match my performance.

Even the one's who choose suicide should be more than a match for you performance...