If anything else, the year 2018 showed us that the European Union has double-standard for just about everything. On one side there are France and Germany that seemingly can't do anything wrong. They are beyond reproach. They are Europe's shiny stars of civil and human rights. On the other side are those ugly nationalist states like Hungary, Poland and (lately) Italy that stumble on everything they do and whatever they do stinks of nationalism, fascism, abuse of law and more. Many young people in the West don't know much about Poland, but they do know about "illegal" harvesting of the beautiful rainforest that Poland somehow managed to keep alive for over 1,000 years. What they do not know, because liberal "free" press failed to report, is that the trees the forest services had to cut cut down were sick to their core and would eventually fall on their own creating a deadly hazard. About 2 moths later German forest services began to do exactly the sam...