r/AskEurope

On an American channel I saw how some people can bring down a total sum from more than 600$ to 0.55$ from coupons alone.

Apparently, people find coupons in magazines that apparently deducts the price from specific items in grocery stores.

Some people literally make it a lifestyle and even dumpster-dive for coupons and organize them thoroughly.

This seems to be a thing in America but I have never seen such a thing anywhere in Europe.

Is that a thing where you live?

how common is to know or learn a language different to those two?

Typical (mandatory) age of entry, typical age of graduation, years of mandatory studying, are there *levels* within hit like primary-middle-high, what kind of grades do kids there get?

In Greece and Cyprus the primary tradition is naming children after their grandparents.

Specifically first born children receive the first name of a paternal grandparent while second born children receive the name of a maternal one. The choice is done gender-wise meaning boys take the name of a grandfather while girls take the name of a grandmother. For thirdborn or later children this motive continues or sometimes parents are "free" to choose the name themselves.

In fact parents "entirely" chosing their children's name is pretty rare and is often seen as "westernised" and it has emerged quite late in the Greek speaking world.

The alleged meaning of this tradition is that it serves as a "tribune" for a parent to his own parents as the grandparent's name will persist in later generations .

I wonder if other european countries have or used to have any traditions regarding naming children that basically limit the parents choice on that matter.

Hey everyone,

I am interested in learning about how different European countries handle internal contradictions in public administration, and what mechanisms citizens have to resolve them.

As an example, I recently encountered a loop in my country (Greece): The official government portal explicitly instructs citizens to call a specific public hotline to report an issue. However, when you call that exact number, the operators state that they are instructed not to accept reports by phone and tell you to use the website instead.

I filed an official inquiry to the relevant Ministry months ago to point out this contradiction, but I have received no response.

This made me curious about how things work across Europe:

1. Have you ever encountered a similar bureaucratic paradox (Catch-22) where two official government guidelines completely contradict each other?
2. Does your country have strict legal deadlines by which a government Ministry must officially respond to a citizen's registered inquiry? What happens if they blow past that deadline?

Looking forward to your insights!

Curious about everyday rules or habits that feel completely normal in your country, but might seem strange, unnecessary, or very different in other European countries.

just the title, wich region in your country is like that and why?

Basically, what is a law that exists in your country that you feel is outdated or ridiculous or otherwise unecessary.

Hello,

In recent years, our high unemployment rates among university graduates and decline in education quality affected people’s view on university degrees negatively.

More people started to dream starting their own businesses and skipping university education.

I wonder is it specific to my country or it is a trend in other countries as well.

Feel free to share your opinions as well.

Thank you for your answers.

Relative to your salary, how much are you actually paying. I am an American and I have the feeling the propaganda that you guys pay 50% of your $$ in taxes is bs. It might be for ultra high earners but I want standard middle class comparisons because I bet the American middle class is paying close to you guys (and getting way less). I'm looking for answers from any country though I know Western Europe and Eastern Europe will be very different. And it doesn't matter if you convert to USD or not

EDIT: THANK YOU ALL for the responses! As I suspected, it wasn't much higher than what I am paying now for taxes. I made about $83k last year and paid almost $20k in taxes, almost a 24% tax rate and I wouldn't mind paying an extra 10% more for a more functional society where everyone is taken care of. But yea I just wanted transparency from real people within the same class as I to compare to.

Hi everyone,
I’m searching for contemporary European authors writing thrillers with strong conspiracy elements (paranoia, secret organizations, political/powerful cabals, hidden truths, etc.

Do you have any suggestions?

For example in my culture there is certain types of meats/sausages made using blood, which older folks will happily eat be it out of nostalgia, cultural pride, or just different tastes but younger people find it disgusting.

Would you consider it the "norm" traditional breakfast in your country?

Hey my friends

I have recently received my temporary residence permit in Lithuania (eublue card) and I'm relocating there within a month, I have a lot of items to take with me, so I found the cheapest travel option is to fly to Poland, and then take a train to Lithuania.

My questions is this:

I have iust gotten my EU blue card I am based in Singapore, can I legally travel to Poland then Lithuania on my first trip legally, or it must be Lithuania strictlv the first time around?

Also how to incorporate a more European way of living in the states? Suburbia in fact.

Hi everyone!
Whenever people talk about traveling abroad for baby shopping, Miami is always the top recommendation due to giant outlets, megastores (Carter's, Target), and cheap gear.

However, Is there any European city or country that is great for a baby/toddler haul?

Specifically, something parents push their children to work towards.

Continental Europeans sometimes use English in a particular way that sounds somewhat strange, but mostly understandable for a native English speak.

An example:

Native-like English: "These aren't the Middle Ages, nor some African dictatorship. What you demand isn't even present in the most hardcore prisons of Southeast Asia!"

Euro-English: "This isn't the Middle-Age, nor some African dictature. What you want isn't even there in the hardest prisons of Indochina!"

In Croatia, if you exclude maybe 5 top football clubs and maybe another 5 best clubs in all other sports, most sport clubs are always on brink of bankrupcy. For example, in highest basketball league, it is perfectly normal for salaries to be late, players to leave because they are not paid on time etc.

Most clubs in all sports and on all levels are financed mostly by public money from local government funds (cities, towns, counties). This includes both funding for team budgets and facilities. Sponsors are usually very minor part, as well as private donors. Even for the most popular clubs, ticket sales and other merch usually covers pretty much nothing. For bigger and professional clubs financing is almost exclusively based on selling players each season and potential rewards for participating in european competitions (for football in particular).

This all results in a state where even in large cities there is maybe one more or less successful club, and the rest (especially less popular sports, ie. anything aside from football and maybe basketball or handball) are always dancing on the edge of amateurism. It is not rare for athletes to pay for their buses or to travel by their own cars to matches because there simply isn't any money. Even in the highest, professional leagues of football, most popular sport, every year there is a club that can't survive a season and they fold, go bankrupt in the middle of the season and get relegated to the lowest, amateur level or permanently disbanded. Most clubs in less popular sports are semiprofessional and have players that are playing and training along with working or going to school/college so as soon as someone shows potential, clubs have no way to keep them and they leave, often abroad.

What is the situation like in other countries? How is 2nd and 3rd tier of popularity financed?

Harry Potter is originally a British series, giving a lot of English things like school houses a magical reputation. If it was based in your country what normal parts of your culture would be seen as “ magical”?