(IN ORDER TO LET KOSTRINTSKY AND OTHERS PARTECIPATE TO THE CONFERENCE, I'LL WRITE IN ENGLISH, WHICH IS THE COMMON LANGUAGE AMONG US, AND HOPING WE ALL ITALIOTS MAKE EFFORTS IN THIS MORE POLITE BEHAVIOUR WITH OUR COMRADES FROM EASTERN EUROPE COUNTRIES, FOR OUR PARTY BEING TRANSNATIONAL)

and now... chickens

massimo's intervention on membership fees was very amusing, but, speaking seriously and out of polemics, "economic indicators" are something different from his chickens. "economic indicators" are such things like the GDP, industrial production, unemployement rate, consumer prices, and so on... anything but chickens. in the same way i meant average wage when i wrote "average wage", now i mean economic indicators in writing "economic indicators". believe me, it is not difficult if you try: an economic indicator is an economic indicator (not a chicken), an average wage is an average wage.

taking in account consumer prices instead of the GDP, will lead you to set usd 300 if you consider a washing-machine; on the other hand, if you consider the price of public transport, membership will be for free, or maybe you have to pay someone to become member... i wonder sandro himself wrote something like that a year ago, as i read in luigi's huge text.

sandro, massimo and paolo don't agree on my proposal on membership fees (which, i repeat, is based on authoritative statistics, not chickens), but what do they propose as alternative parameters to compute the fee ? nothing, i'm sorry for them, absolutely nothing.

while nikolay, who at least made a proposal, suggests a sum for russia, from paolo and massimo we have to digest that the membership fee for "their" countries should be quite the same of russia's.

that's simply crazy: everybody knows that the economies of czech republic and hungary are four times richer in comparison with their southern balkan former communist-block cousins romania and bulgaria; but the membership fee is only two-fold; why? rp mistery.

what about slovenia? have you ever been there? they are even richer than some EU contries (they are richer than greece and portugal and very close to ireland and spain); so, why they pay half the money a portuguese must pay to join the party? (and, to be nasty, why nevertheless we have more members in portugal than in slovenia?) another rp mistery.

i'm astonished by sandro's sentence (text 641) "what we're interested in, is the number of members..."; doing politics to do politics and making members in order to make members; well, in this case i can find hundreds of members in bulgaria with a false membership fee which is not set as the party's statute states.

i mean: if the membership fee for 1995 stays usd 13 in croatia, usd 15-16 in hungary and czech rep., usd 11 in poland, then it must be between usd 6-7 (not 8-14) for bulgaria and romania, and 5-6 for russia (not 8-11), and so on...