[AskEurope] what's your country's problem?

Correct answer for basically every country: far-right extremists and the hardcore neoliberal capitalist right (that will happily cooperate with the former if given the chance)... constantly pushed by bad foreign (to destabilise democracies) and domestic (to enrich themselves at the expense of democracy) actors^(*).

^(*): bonus points for US tech bros often matching both categories

Neoliberals, nazis, shit weather.

So... Somewhere ~~in Europe~~ on Planet Earth?
- Hey that is unfair. There is plenty of places with good weather.
- Gosh, how'd you know?
@Lumidaub this, plus corruption, plus Russia
@localhorst
Spain?
- Not nearly as sexy.

From Finland. So, the answer is extremely easy to answer: Our eastern neighbour having turned fascist and their Ruler having declared they want to make my country part of said neighbour.

Far right idiots

The looming treat of fashism

*Fascism
Fashism is a failed startup backed by Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and a bunch of venture capitalist nobody would recognize. Imagine how many people watched that happen and said nothing.
Ignoring the other typo but this word gets misspelled a lot.
- Fashism is such a shitty name for a company. holy shit.

Germany: Domestic rightwingers are trying to dismantle everything we have achieved since after WW2, supported by foreign dictators.

Fascism, Nazis, Housin, no future retirement for young people, russia and too much bureaucracy! School system and schools that havent been updated since 1960/1970s. And nothing is digital

Russia, China, and other autocracies.

European countries' biggest problems come from abroad, in particular from the East.

Well nothing's ever gone wrong in Europe blaming internal strife on Those Foreigners From The East
Yeah, it is those damn foreigners that slashed taxes, privatized infrastructure, gutted social systems, "liberated" the markets and caused the birth rates to drop below stability rates by making life unaffordable. Also climate change is those damn foreigners fault. After all the Steam Engine and industrialization are known to be inventions of the devilish Maori tribes in New Zealand, who came to pillage unsuspecting and peaceful Europe on their raiding boats.
- I don' t understand why you react so uneasy. Russia and China are the greatest threats to European and Western democracies, there is no doubt about that. Invading other countries (or the threat thereof), disinformation and misinformation campaigns, election interference, Moscow and Beijing's support of European far-right (and far-left) parties, cyber attacks, arson attacks and other sabotage acts have been increasing in recent years. And this list isn't even complete.
- The question was, what is the biggest problem in your country.
  The ones you listed are easily in the 2nd or 3rd place, because they are very huge problems as well. But of course the Russia wanting to wage a war against several European countries is the biggest problem.
  The reason those other problems were not mentioned is that the question allows the answer to contain only one thing.

neoliberalism?

Netherlands: successive governments have been putting off actually addressing issues causing them to become a pile of confounding crises, such as nitrogen emissions and housing, which complicates migration, etc.

Why solve issues when you can double it and give it to the next cabinet?

People... What a bunch of bastards.

Denmark... I don't think we have a lot of serious national problems. Our main problem seems to be climate change, a global issue, and our allies in the US having lost their marbles.

Poland: We have a fucking war in the neighborhood, keeping the support for Ukraine and refugees costs fuckton of money.

Does Poland ban Ukrainians from working? I thought Poland(like the rest of Europe) has a massive demographic crisis, so more workers would be needed.
- The problem is that working age males aren't allowed to leave Ukraine (because war they enacted special laws)
  90% of Ukrainians with refugee status in Poland are women and children. Out of remaining 10% males most are either elderly or have chronic conditions
  In the peak, Poland was spending 3% of entire GDP on refugee support, and another 5% on military support
  There's separate group of Ukrainians who emigrated before war, and they stay based on work permits - but they aren't refugees

I think that the biggest problem is the lack of long term thinking and planning. The polarization in politics doesn't help - every party is trying to say that it is different from the other one so even in the stuff like defense policy is so fractured across the spectrum.

Germany: Risk of (nuclear) war, reversion to digital quasi-feudal economic structures, far-right politics, etc.

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and co.

Unaffordability of housing.

All the idiots.

Germany: The nuclear showdown with China and Russia is an accepted path to continue western domination. As a counter measure, the military bases with nuclear weapons will be hit with nuclear weapons.

Without that, we don't prepare for China taking over technological leadership which makes all German and European products second class. The trade advantages will melt which will destroy the economic surplus that is financing everything.

Switzerland:

The french have brought the banlieu problem to lausanne
Trumps tarriffs (40%)

Also the new trams have a SOS button exactly where the door-open-button on the old version was.
- Imagine living in a city that isn't walkable (this post was made in lucerne) (I'm only jealous we have buses and not trams)