>why are these countries even around
Also you bongs why dont you juts make these territories states
Euro anons explain why these places exist
Kevin Sanders
Gabriel Richardson
A part of the rich history of Europe. I'm not surprised that a burger does not understand such complicated things.
Bentley Taylor
what are you talking about..its buffer states and territories
Evan White
Strip the flesh, salt the wounds.
Xavier Morales
shhhhhh keep it down.
that's where the queen rapes and eats the kids.
Zachary Long
>san marino
Essentially survived by jewing over Napoleon and later the redshirts (Italian nationalists) by allowing them military access. Because of this, Italy let it live. Unironically voted in a fascist party during WW2 and communist party during the Cold War.
>malta
Former British colony, granted independence after WW2.
>vatican
Created after an agreement between Mussolini and the pope at the time after a century long dispute between the Holy See and the Italian state.
Christopher Kelly
They're British Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies.
The difference is the different types of Governance. All are protected by the British government and all are also represented by the British Government in international diplomacy.
Nicholas Gomez
>malta
was almost part of the UK, then they sort of... forgot about it
:(
en.wikipedia.org
Jordan Lopez
After the Roman Empire collapsed Europe broke up into many small countries.
Most of them were annexed, but some survived.
In modern times tiny countries have a huge advantage when it comes to taxes, which makes them rich and thus they continue to survive.
Ayden Reed
well what will they do for brexit
Noah Bailey
And as for the UK: Brits love tax heavens and will do anything to keep them around.
Jackson Cooper
This only majorly affects Gibraltar.
That's why there was so much argument about it the other day with Spain, when our government literally REEEEEE'd at the EU for suggesting Spain has a veto over any deal involving Gibraltar.
Holy fuck, that's rich coming from a Dutch person.
socialeurope.eu
Jack Anderson
who the fuck drew these province borders?
Michael Gutierrez
how about Gibraltar goes to spain, or become and a country
Anthony Mitchell
probably nature? rivers, hills, roads, property borders from the feudal age?
Landon Cook
retards who allowed this country
Alexander Taylor
>Holy fuck, that's rich coming from a Dutch person.
You're just jealous we're beating you at your game.
Michael Cruz
>You are like a babby, watch this
Carter Cooper
the border fucking sucks aswell
Colton Wood
Because Gibraltarians want to remain British?
>Brits love tax havens!
>Ugh but you're a literal tax haven, Netherlan-
>Haha you're just jealous bro :^)
Nicholas Flores
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Christian Thomas
do they get a vote what they want to do
William Fisher
They voted like 4 years ago. 97% want to remain British
Wyatt Anderson
liechtenstien is relic of that autistic >empire, jews need to give this shithole some multikulti
Oliver Ross
>>Haha you're just jealous bro :^)
You are though.
But there is a key difference:
- English want tax havens to exist, so the rich Brits don't have to pay too much taxes.
- Dutch want the rich Dutch to pay their taxes like everybody else, but if FOREIGNERS want to give us their money then they are welcome.
Colton Edwards
war
Henry Martin
That's why you autistically started screeching when TM threatened us being a low tax country if we got no deal?
lol
Elijah Baker
>our government literally REEEEEE'd at the EU for suggesting Spain has a veto over any deal involving Gibraltar.
Which is false.
The EU gave Spain a veto over IT'S BORDER.
It was never about Gibraltar.
Caleb Reyes
Basically the remains of a long gone era, when Europe was divided to tiny city states.
>Vatican
De facto successor of the Papal State, it was created during Mussolini, if I'm not mistaken, as a "compensation" for abolishing the Papal States during the Italian unification.
>Liechtenstein
Doesn't even have a military, it's closely tied to Switzerland. De Facto, it's part of Switzerland
>Andorra
Tax haven
>San Marino
Tax haven
>Malta
no idea.
James Morris
Because, like I said, we don't want Dutch people to use tax havens.
We only want to be a tax haven to non-Dutch foreigners.
Levi Scott
a buffer zone doesn't work if it's fucking tiny you idiot
Aiden Williams
the rest is mountains moron
>like isle of man is a buffer between ireland and england
Henry Anderson
Look, if you're going to make a dumb ass thread like this do us all a favour and read up on it before you do. You'll save us all time.
Ayden Mitchell
yes, Ireland, a neutral country, and the UK, need a buffer between each other, when they already share a border in northern ireland
Jacob Walker
topkek are you actually retarded?
Luis Mitchell
well the other anons said these places were made countries ago..so isle of man is in between those to countries like...much like mexico is a buffer between the central American nations
Kayden Martinez
why do you think that?
>Ireland and UK had problems so they created a buffer zone or a (((crown dependency)))
Dominic Robinson
>Buffer zone
Wales is closer to ROI than I.o.mann burger
Michael Nguyen
we exist because we had a chad leader during our independence from the brits and the brits where mistreating us hard
Joseph Hernandez
The UK didn't even exist when it became a feudal holding of the English crown in 1399.