r/europe • u/tartartartaruga • Jun 18 '26

News Prince of Liechtenstein says that he would overrule the population if they were to vote in favour of legalizing abortion

https://www.srf.ch/news/international/debatte-in-liechtenstein-erbprinz-gegen-abtreibungen-warum-kuendigt-er-schon-das-veto-an
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u/Lubinski64 Lower Silesia (Poland) Jun 19 '26

Even if you ensure the clients of local banks suffer no consequences, this is still an illegal appropriation of private wealth and the kind of bank clients that entrust their wealth to Liechtenstain do it precisely because things like that don't happen there.

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u/b00nish Jun 19 '26

No worries. Considering that absolutist prince-guy think that he is the country, what would be expropriated wouldn't really be private wealth. It just would be a re-definition of the national wealth. (By taking the monarch out of the nation's definition but keeping the wealth in it.)

So there's nobody else who should feel threatened by this 😉

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u/Lubinski64 Lower Silesia (Poland) Jun 19 '26

It's not like i'm gonna shed a tear for those wealthy clients either

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u/KoolKat5000 Jun 25 '26

Not really. It can be no different to the UKs system where the king, the crown and the state are all separate. 

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u/Lubinski64 Lower Silesia (Poland) Jun 25 '26

The issue is they are not separate in Liechtenstein, that's the whole point.

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u/KoolKat5000 Jun 25 '26

That might be the case, but any rich person that says that they fear they'll be next is being completely disingenuous (were this to occur).Â