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1. 

   @TLDRnewsEU

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   Thanks for all your brilliant feedback! We're planning on starting a bi-weekly series where we take a full episode to dive deeper into each of these groupings. Our Patreons are currently voting for which grouping we should discuss first, so expect to see the first video in the series next week – Jack

   p.s. A bunch of people seem to be comparing this video to one by CGP Grey. Despite being a huge Grey fan, I had completely forgotten he even did a video on this topic. Regardless any similarities are probably because both of us based the video on a similar diagram, one that neither of us created – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Supranational_European_Bodies

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2. 

   @william7286

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   I wonder if the UK will ever disband, and form a "British Union" of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (reunified) as equal partner nations?

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   @enb080

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   that's the wrong flag for Kosovo

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   @marskavols1073

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   from the smaller unions in the EU like v4 I only know about v4 personally and that is kinda of a joke of group cos even its name is confusing cos Poland is not even holding to the original Visegrad Agreement so are those other so irrelevant 2?

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5. 

   @lancebrightmire1653

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   Tl:dr there are the core members that do all the stuff, and then some countries for convienience or otherwise participate in some shared institutions but not all.

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6. 

   @TheMikerophone

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   I demand the 3 hour cut of this video

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7. 

   @Acteaon

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   I knew this was complex but damn.

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8. 

   @BodohYono

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   My brain is not ready for this,

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9. 

   @sashaschmidt2019

   February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

   You forgot the craiova group

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10. 

    @jeffreybarker357

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    American living in Europe here! Be right back after I subscribe to my side of the pond’s channel…

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11. 

    @wak69

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    The EU is unique, but a pain to IR students just trying to get passing marks

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12. 

    @koenven7012

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Time to do an update as Russia is now out of the European council, as is Belarus I think.

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13. 

    @sunlynnhatchett3983

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    So Ireland and the UK aren't in the schengan area because they're islands, even though they border eachother, but the island and country of Iceland is in… totally makes sense.

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    @LeoDas688

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Cyprus is an island right, so why didn't they have opt-out like Ireland

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15. 

    @nmplab

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Nooo. Not the CCs auto detecting the language spoken as Vietnamese. 😂

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16. 

    @thyscott6603

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    You've forgotten about the European Energy Union, European Defence pact and you could include Eurasian Economic Union and while you already have the flags there then also the CSTO.

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17. 

    @antonng

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    In addition to those:

    1. Switzerland-Lichtenstein’s monetary and customs Union

    2. NATO
    2.1 Partnership for Peace

    3. OSCE

    4. Associated Trio (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova)

    5. Open Balkan (political and economic zone of Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia)

    6. CSTO (Russian NATO-ish) – Armenia, Belarus, Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan

    7. Lublin Triangle – Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland

    8. Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

    9. CISFTA – All CIS members plus Ukraine

    10. Three seas initiative – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania

    11. Cyprus, Malta, and the UK are part of the British Commonwealth

    12. PESCO – EU’s internal NATO except Denmark and Malta

    13. The Three crown dependencies

    13. And then there’s the clusterfuck of Acronyms: EURATOM, EHEA, ECAA, Eurocontrol, ECAC, ESRB, CEN, EBU, EPC, EOC, CENELEC, ETSI

    13. And let’s not start with specific exceptions (Gibraltar) and the EU’s Outermost regions/countries (Greenland, Carribean netherlands, south american/african France, etc)

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18. 

    @finnvictorsson

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    I actually don't think it's too complicated. I think the problem is the diagram is complicated

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19. 

    @shimomcdragon5566

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    I am estonian and I am annoyed

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20. 

    @dardanisufi8691

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    A bit late on this but that is NOT the flag of Kosovo , we have our own flag sins 2008 which is recognised by 115 countries

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    @Maitch3000

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    As a Dane I can tell that there is a historical bond with Baltic states. I believe most of the Scandinavian countries reached all the way down to the Baltic at certain times in history. A lot of the vikings settled there.
    According to a legend, the Danish flag fell from the sky during a battle in Estonia and since then it has been the official flag of Denmark.

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22. 

    @JulianSloman

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    So it took 10 min to basically list the groups and quote the most salient sentence from their "about" section – still don't feel like I know anything about any of the groupings other than "they all say they're for the interests of the members of the group" – the council part was novel for me though and had a couple more sentences 😀

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23. 

    @sysghost

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    E.U. – "It's complicated"

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24. 

    @aleattorium

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    No credits to the person that created the original version of this view? It's a famous youtuber, shame on you.

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25. 

    @kosovaethnicalbania3854

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    4:05 🇽🇰

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26. 

    @martingjoni109

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    you have the wrong flag for Kosovo

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27. 

    @mikedalessandro5382

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Where does Andorra fit?

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28. 

    @jfrancobelge

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Besides the complex technicalities of politics and bureaucracy, this is my experience of our united Europe as an ordinary EU citizen. To be honest, living where I live helps make you feel European. I am a Frenchman, originally from Western France, who lives in Eastern Belgium, close to the borders with Luxembourg (20 minutes drive) and Germany (30 minutes drive), and crossing either border for whatever reason is nothing rare or special – just normal life. I live in a French-speaking town but our neighbors in the next town speak German though still in Belgium, and many of them are actually bilingual German-French. And of course the Luxemburgers have their own language which is basically a Germanic idiom with some French influence; in practice they are trilingual Luxemburgish-French-German, and these actually are the three official languages of the country. And I'm personally fluent in French (mother tongue) and English, I get along pretty well in German, and I'm at least able to read basic Luxemburgish and Dutch, plus notions of Spanish and Italian. In my region (Ardenne) we also see many tourists from Flanders and the Netherlands; these ones speak Dutch (though Flemish Dutch and Dutch Dutch are kind of different) and that's a fourth language and a fourth country not unusual to us in the area. So, for me normal life is about three/four countries and three/four languages, not to mention English. I naturally sometimes visit my native country, France, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away from the closest border. On these visits, living in a French-only environment for several days is now weird to me. And a word about Brexit: for me, bathing most of the time in the openness of Europe's multiculturalism, I just cannot understand why the UK – or at least England – has chosen to go backwards into self-imprisonment.

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29. 

    @darkweb8860

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Simple explanation to this map a big mess 😅

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30. 

    @XaurielZ

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    What about the Commonwealth of Independent States? Is that still a thing that exists? I'm so old

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31. 

    @antoniogoncalves7527

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Why not a Latin council?

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32. 

    @diellihoxhaj8017

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Why haven't you given Kosovo its flag

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33. 

    @annankesawa7500

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Has the UK left the customs union as of now?

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34. 

    @SuperTonyony

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    It's really annoying that the narrator pronounces "Ireland" and "island" exactly the same.

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35. 

    @stevencrighton6890

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Hopefully a celtic group will form soon

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36. 

    @serious_nigga

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Hypocritical world. They say Estonia isnt nordic enough… Im sure it's because of the soviet past. I hate those nordic hypocrites

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37. 

    @selcukaslantas

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Chile 🇨🇱 is in EU 🇪🇺 custom union too

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38. 

    @selcukaslantas

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Cyprus is TURK 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷

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39. 

    @klausklaus1150

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    What a trash narrative!

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40. 

    @kazakhdude

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    more details 🙂

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41. 

    @davida.yorkson3397

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Welp, now I want a 30 houir version of this detailing the inumerable relationships between the now member states from, let's say, 500 A. D. to now!!

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42. 

    @kaiharding7996

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    It would be a great idea to make videos on each of the groups and see why they exist what the benefits are and the major dealings or controversies with the groups

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43. 

    @theantiscorpion9286

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    sad (is estonian) XD

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44. 

    @Aegor1998

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    I think going in depth in all of these would be cool.

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45. 

    @Opfergangsteryeah

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    Subcount: EU 208k vs US 205k

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46. 

    @Damjes

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    You forgot about Weimar Triangle

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47. 

    @sanji7262

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    WTF is that Kosovo Flag 😂

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48. 

    @lazar9586

    February 22, 2024 at 5:54 pm

    KOSOVO IS SERBIA

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