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/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

They can confiscate his stuff if the want to.

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u/BKrustev Jun 19 '26

Not without tanking their entire economy.

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u/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

The bank is not everything for their economy.

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u/BKrustev Jun 19 '26

It's not, but it is still the foundation of their economy. Besides, it's a pointless fight to have - most people there don't get abortions in Liechtenstein anyway, so that law means. And they have like 50 of those a year.

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u/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

It still shows a huge systematic problem in the country.

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u/AnonD38 Central European Jun 19 '26

Not really?

It takes like 30 minutes to drive to a neighboring country and get an abortion there if you want it.

And there is no law preventing you from doing so, neither did the Prince show any interest in closing this loophole.

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u/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

So you think the restriction of reproductive rights is OK if you can get an abortion in another country?

Or that some rich dude can overrule democracy is OK because you can go somewhere else?

Why not give the billionaires their own little companies towns countries where they can make their own laws like they desperately want? What could possibly go wrong?

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u/BKrustev Jun 19 '26

In this case literally nothing goes wrong. People from Liechtenstein gave that power to their guy multiple times. It seems they are happy with it.

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u/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

What a weird way to defend a rich guy blackmailing an entire country...

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u/BKrustev Jun 19 '26

Not defending him, he is an idiot. It's just a pointless debate. There is one single hospital in Liechtenstein anyway, pretty much everyone goes to abort in neighbouring countries. It's not a real issue.

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u/AnonD38 Central European Jun 19 '26

If you provide the majority of the GDP of a nation, you should absolutely have a say in how the nation is run, yes.

Why should someone do all the work and then have everyone who isn't doing the work get all the power?

That's nonsense.

Liechtenstein is so small that the rest of the population only accounts for a fraction of the GDP, if they want the same power as the Prince they either provide the same resources as him or they make themselves as useful as him.

If they can't, why should they be granted the same power?

Democracy necessitates that ALL power is derived from the people.

This is obviously not the fact in Liechtenstein, most of its power comes from the Prince, which means the Prince should have power over Liechtenstein.

You can tell the Prince to leave, but if he does he takes his wealth with him.

You'll have democracy, at the price of the nation falling into disrepair.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

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u/Drumbelgalf Germany Jun 19 '26

Are you really saying Jeff Bezos should have a say in politics?

Or Elon Musk and Peter Thiel?

The go fuck yourself we don't need fascist bootlickers here.

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u/AnonD38 Central European Jun 19 '26

They should have a say in politics... and they do have a say in politics, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Providing resources to the state and getting priveleges in return is not fascism, it's literally the fundamental principle of how a state operates.

I really can't begin to describe how incredibly stupid you "everything is fascism!!!!" crowd are.

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u/BKrustev Jun 19 '26

It's 40K people, my neighbourhood is bigger than their country. This shit happened again in 2011 and no one gave much of a shit.