Yes, it’s hard to sneak around in Switzerland unregistered and with no permit, and I think that is a workable solution here. However, it’s well funded and resourced, and the population more or less accepts that everyone has to be registered where they live, and all the same rules re: health insurance, landlord/tenancy, employment, etc., apply to them as well as anyone coming from overseas.
Transplant that format to other some parts of Europe and either you don’t have the funding or resources and/or you have a population that absolutely doesn’t want to be lumped together under the same rules as immigrants.
Asking a British person to cough up their National Insurance card or ID at a hospital would send most of them into a tailspin. This is why it’s so hard to get people who apparently have all the solutions to share anything.
Interesting, we do our “main” grocery shop on Fridays and always in the same shop and we buy mostly the same things.
Comparing our bank card debits for the whole of May 2022 to last May we are only about 10% up.
Ooh that is new, then. Last summer I had to take my mum to the hospital after she tripped down some steps and mangled her thumb. All they asked for was her name, DOB and address. She wouldn’t have had any ID on her, either. Doesn’t drive, no blue badge, wasn’t in the armed services, nowt.
Here you just need your health insurance card and they scan it, if they’re up to scratch or you have to fill in the form by hand. Have you never had medical treatment here?
EDITED TO ADD: ironically, a few years ago, I needed to go to the doctor (my old GP) when I was over in the UK and, try as I might, they had no way of figuring out how they could bill my health insurance in CH, which would have paid no probs. As I said, they need to fund and resource the system properly.
While success is far from guaranteed, I think it might have been the best option for him: I only see rivals getting stronger over time and more unhappiness from voters as economic hardships continue.
For me, anything to the right of EPP (which is mainly Christian-Democrats) has a distasteful populist far-right smell. With nuances of course. ECR includes PiS and Fratelli D’Italia. ID includes FN, Lega and PVV. Both groups have gained.
And don’t forget, also the Non-aligned gained. They include Fidesz and as of recently AfD who were seen as too radical by ID (Le Pen).
Quite clear from the table below what the direction is. I am particularly concerned about the losses of liberals.
What is of course a bit pathetic is how now there is a big outcry AFTER the election, and the politicians’ and newspaper commentaries are all the same. It has been clear for months for anyone who read the polls what this election would likely bring. A bit late now to complain.
There’s a reason people is upset. They complain about immigrants, maybe the real issue is EMIGRANTS:
Rural regions in East Germany have been characterized by strong age- and sex-selective outmigration since 1990, which has resulted in unbalanced sex ratios in the age group 18–35 with pronounced surpluses of men. The East German countryside is unique in Europe in two respects: (1) the spatial and numerical extent of the overrepresentation of young men and (2) the missing equalization of sex ratio imbalances for groups in the age of forming a family. An analysis of statistical data shows that structural conditions, especially the situation on the labor market are important determinants of unbalanced sex ratios and sex-selective migration.
From “She leaves, he stays? Sex-selective migration in rural East Germany”. The deepest blue is 3 guys for 2 women ratio.
Indeed. The following map presents data from 2014, the origin is the same article. Blue and yellow is around 105 women/100 men. Purple, ~87 women / 100 men. Both greens are about equality. Zoom in the top right legend for more details.
