Glad. I was earlier of the wrong impression that it was good, but it wasn’t. Gotta admit it was a stupid thing to say. ESPECIALLY WITHOUT INVITING THE PEOPLE IT CONCERNED! The inhabitants of the islands should not have to watch their homes being bartered with like that.
Better late than never.
This is Argentina’s fault not the EU’s. There was like 2 sentences about this in like a 30 page document that was obviously designed to be ambiguous so as to not at surface level appear controversial to EU diplomats reviewing the document, but then allow Argentina to take the most aggressive interpretation possible and run with it.
Those people overreacting in the other thread must feel really silly now.
Nothing makes you look as daft as blatantly trolling and then pretending you weren’t afterwards.
Just own it.
Not good enough.
Every capital of the EU nations need to denounce that move by the EU and reaffirm their loyalty to Britain regarding this matter.
The EU all so needs to discipline that diplomat for his disgusting statement.
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I don’t see what’s the big deal though ?
The name depends on either you took the name from the UK (Falkland) or France (Malouines).
In France we use Malouines, doesn’t mean we think it should become Argentinian.
Should we be angry that the english call “la Manche” the “English Channel” ?
Title: “EU backs down”
Article: “The EU member states have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands/Islas Malvinas.”
What a spin, implying the EU is backing down solely because they called Falklands “Malvinas” when in reality they continue to do so, they just made clearer for the populists and the outraged that the statement never indicated that the EU was endorsing the claims made by Argentina in the first place. For the dense people out there, using the term “Malvinas” isn’t an indication that you support the Falklands falling into Argentinian hands, “Malvinas” AND “Falklands” are correct nomenclatures as per the UN. English Speaking countries are invited to use Falklands, Spanish countries Malvinas, for neither of those both. The EU made a declaration with Latin American States, so they naturally used Falklands (EU) and Malvinas (CELAC).
Argentina claimed a huge victory earlier, now it is the UK, when in reality the EU hasn’t made any statement in regards to the sovereignty of the island, nice circus.
It was a serious mistake what the EU did. Good to see that is being corrected.
>In a statement following the row, the EU foreign policy service clarified the bloc’s position, telling several newspapers: “The EU member states have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands/Islas Malvinas.
“The EU is not in a situation to express any position on the Falklands/Islas Malvinas, as there is not any council discussion on this matter.”
amazing how this becomes “EU backs down”
can anyone point to the exact document/press release/statement where it was mentioned?
In any case it seems to me to be a bureaucratic oversight, not an explicit endorsement of Argentinian sovreignity or claims. A word that slipped through the gap in the proceedings of a multi-day international conference covering many matters.
But surely at the international stage, it should be presumed that every single scrap of text will be throroughly scrutinised. So someone messed up somewhere.
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Glad. I was earlier of the wrong impression that it was good, but it wasn’t. Gotta admit it was a stupid thing to say. ESPECIALLY WITHOUT INVITING THE PEOPLE IT CONCERNED! The inhabitants of the islands should not have to watch their homes being bartered with like that.
Better late than never.
This is Argentina’s fault not the EU’s. There was like 2 sentences about this in like a 30 page document that was obviously designed to be ambiguous so as to not at surface level appear controversial to EU diplomats reviewing the document, but then allow Argentina to take the most aggressive interpretation possible and run with it.
Those people overreacting in the other thread must feel really silly now.
Nothing makes you look as daft as blatantly trolling and then pretending you weren’t afterwards.
Just own it.
Not good enough.
Every capital of the EU nations need to denounce that move by the EU and reaffirm their loyalty to Britain regarding this matter.
The EU all so needs to discipline that diplomat for his disgusting statement.
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I don’t see what’s the big deal though ?
The name depends on either you took the name from the UK (Falkland) or France (Malouines).
In France we use Malouines, doesn’t mean we think it should become Argentinian.
Should we be angry that the english call “la Manche” the “English Channel” ?
Title: “EU backs down”
Article: “The EU member states have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands/Islas Malvinas.”
What a spin, implying the EU is backing down solely because they called Falklands “Malvinas” when in reality they continue to do so, they just made clearer for the populists and the outraged that the statement never indicated that the EU was endorsing the claims made by Argentina in the first place. For the dense people out there, using the term “Malvinas” isn’t an indication that you support the Falklands falling into Argentinian hands, “Malvinas” AND “Falklands” are correct nomenclatures as per the UN. English Speaking countries are invited to use Falklands, Spanish countries Malvinas, for neither of those both. The EU made a declaration with Latin American States, so they naturally used Falklands (EU) and Malvinas (CELAC).
Argentina claimed a huge victory earlier, now it is the UK, when in reality the EU hasn’t made any statement in regards to the sovereignty of the island, nice circus.
It was a serious mistake what the EU did. Good to see that is being corrected.
>In a statement following the row, the EU foreign policy service clarified the bloc’s position, telling several newspapers: “The EU member states have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands/Islas Malvinas.
“The EU is not in a situation to express any position on the Falklands/Islas Malvinas, as there is not any council discussion on this matter.”
amazing how this becomes “EU backs down”
can anyone point to the exact document/press release/statement where it was mentioned?
In any case it seems to me to be a bureaucratic oversight, not an explicit endorsement of Argentinian sovreignity or claims. A word that slipped through the gap in the proceedings of a multi-day international conference covering many matters.
But surely at the international stage, it should be presumed that every single scrap of text will be throroughly scrutinised. So someone messed up somewhere.