re: I was in Paris last year (March) three things surprised me

I worked in the south of France, near Marseille, for 3 years. Close to 50 percent of the operators in the plant were Muslim, or at least had Muslim names. Never talked religion with them though.

I can promise you the Muslim population is quite large and the birth rate of Muslims is much higher than the the native French birth rate.

ChEgrad.

Thanks for the insight. I was not in your area and of course you would know better, good info.

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I was in Paris last year

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For your next vacation I suggest Frankfurt or Malmo, Sweden.

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Most of the muslims they have there are loyal because they come from France's colonies like Algeria. They are notJihadists.

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Your problem is you don't have the first clue what constitutes jihad, as you simply conflate jihad as being terrorism. Nonetheless, ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are jihadists. Otherwise, they are non-Muslim apostates, which in Islam and unlike all the other religions of the world that Islam is morally equated with by loons like you, is supposed to be an automatic death penalty.

You're knowledge and therefore your naive perception is utterly incompetent. Thanks for your feedback, it is utterly useless as you are.

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Hasn't Marseille had a sizable muslim population for years?

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Yes. Once the French colonial establishment in northern Africa sort of fell through, Marseille's economy tanked.

It's France's Detroit. I was supposed to move there in April for a project. Looks like I've been postponed until November, so I'm looking forward to missing the Pittsburgh winter.

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It is great seeing them arguing with people who live in these places or have traveled extensively.

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Aren't there some quotes from actual citizens saying it's an issue?

you are correct.

you need to remember that most on this board are bound at the butt to trump and don't have a clue how the world is outside of their little patch of grass

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Long term competition, long term threat to the petro-dollar, long term threat to the US being in charge of the world.

I'd rather Europe peaceful, but broken up into 20 different economies and currencies to ensure there will never be a rival chef in the west.

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I actually agree with you on the Euro, but disagree entirely with this take.

I simply don't believe that a marriage of monetary policy without fiscal policy is sustainable or ideal. The entire history of currencies and central banking is on my side. I think the current half-in, half-out set up is unsustainable and will cause more problems long-term than it will solve. We're already seeing the EUR fray at the periphery (literally), and those economies have had their largest and most powerful tool for combating unemployment and sovereign debt snatched away from them, and they can't do anything about it.

It will cause more social instability, radical politics, and continued friction as long as the current set up remains. Because fiscal union is, for all practical purposes (it's hard enough keeping Catalonia and Basque Country in Spain or Belgium from splitting into two) impossible, they need to be split again.

The Euro will never be a serious player as the foreign reserve currency and petro-dollar vis a vis the dollar.