NEW VIDEO: Is the European Union Worth It Or Should We End It?

Brexit makes me cry almost daily (I'm one of the 49% who voted remain!)

Rob Stainsbury

LOVE LOVE LOVE this video. I live in africa and not vested in the polical side of things, the animation for this video (and the last) is fan freakin tastic. well done guys

Hugo van Niekerk

I like the video. No point in me spewing my opinions here on the EU though. Keep up the good work guys, your vids are always well thought out and entertaining to watch!

Rob

This video actually gave me an opinion on the matter. Great work guys!

Mathias Reiersen

Another well explained and well-produced video. I appreciate the explanation of both sides at a high-level, as well as the clear demarcation​ about where the op-ed began. Well done; keep 'em coming. :)

Michel Vaillancourt

I like the flawed but improved summation. It is my take on a lot of new progressive programs.

Christopher Buteau

I believe that globally we will continue to better understand the inter connectivity between all humans and try to come up with methods by which we can continue to survive and thrive on this planet without allowing one person or one county to "sneak" under the radar or "get away" with doing things there own way. I strongly believe in a one world government and feel that we are going in that direction in a hopefully peaceful and intelligent manner. Great video! I also agree that the EU has done a lot of good and that they are strong together (even though I am from the United States)

Ben Merryman

Speaking to the language question, I personally am chagrined that the EU have not given serious consideration to the use of an International Auxiliary Language such as ILo/Esperanto. It might not be the most poetic language, but it is easy to learn and would probably provide enough specificity to enable complex but understandable contracts/treaties. Think of all the savings on translation staff, etc. It also helps prevent privileging people who happen to be native speakers of an arbitrarily chosen lingua Franca.

Edison Franklin

Although I generally agree with you, I think the end call for a "fact-based discussion" is somewhat disingenuous because you'd be required to make claims based on counterfactuals. For example, one might argue that the economic and political integration of Europe was irrelevant to the era of peace because industrialized nations have generally moved past the era of country-wide wars. The costs are simply too high and the risks too great - European countries would have ceased warring with each other anyway. Now, I can't introduce any facts for that - I can point to the lack of wars among other first-world industrialized countries since WWII but that's not precisely a fact-based argument so much as it is an assertion by analogy and hypothesis.

DrWex

All the points of why the EU is a good thing are right the problem is that there is a cost involved that the individual countries don't want to pay, sovereignty and culture. Right now the EU seems more like a miniture version of the UN. The members of the EU will have to accept that there will be decisions that they can't opt out of juust because they don't like them. The ruling government has to be elected by the citizens of the meber countries as a whole so it can be representative of its citizens. Personally I think the biggest roadblock is language, what will be the language if the EU be? Or does the modern European have to be fluent in all member languages? Using English would be ironic but couldl you expect the Germans to agree to French and vice versa? Maybe Itallian or Spanish? Will Bavaria have to start taxing its beer etc. Those Erbfeindschaften are still alive and well and I'm pretty sure that they'll die of old age just to be stuffed and mounted on a wall and kept a little longer. Personanlly I'd love to see the EU succeed, I just don't see it happening under the current governments and ideologies.

JIngle

P.S. Note I did not say whether I agreed with your opinion. That is not important to whether I support you. The important part is you kept true to your "ethos", and this is why I am a Patreon.

Patrick W. Gilmore

When I read the article, I thought this might not be a great idea. I LOVE Kurzgesagt because you separate fact from fiction and present it well. I thought politics would be a departure. It was not. You gave multiple views, you showed facts, and you presented some opinion clearly stated as opinion. And you picked a timely, important topic that needed some clarification. GREAT JOB. Yet another reason to keep supporting you.

Patrick W. Gilmore

I agree with your opinions in the video. Stronger together! While there are a lot of issues, especially legislative ones, on the whole the EU is better for Europe.

Eric Jensen

Haven't watched the video yet, but just wanted to say that I appreciate how reflective and considerate you are in approaching a video like this.

Oliver Sartun

I respect that you guys make videos on topics that aren't especially paletable

Film Vagabond

I really appreciate that you guys take a little hit financially in order to say what you think is important. Count me in for all the political videos you can make, regardless of the position taken, as long as they stay fact based and, as this video was, friendly to those who hold another opinion, encouraging discussion rather than adding an angry echo to an echo chamber.

Dawson

I think we're stronger together

Quality video!

Alexander JB

I came to the EU via The Netherlands 7 years ago. I want the EU to stay together and become more transparent, accessible and united. Individual European countries are very vulnerable on their own. Improving the EU is the only way to the future. Furthermore, EU institutions that take fights against global corporations are a blessing to European customers. Americans who understand this greatly envy this from the EU.

Gilberto

Will you put up official captions? I'm deaf

Samir Jain

Awesome video, nice work!