Lackluster economic performance relative to the US and China doesn’t really make the EU attractive for a country like the UK.
On r/europe, people are delusional. They think the UK will come back begging and will accept a deal without concessions, i.e. no rebate and euro and Schengen obligations.
Reality is, the UK was the second biggest net contributor to the EU for a long time. The EU will need to make an attractive proposal to convince them to come back.
As it is, the EU is only attractive for impoverished peripheral countries.
Meanwhile, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK see more downsides to joining and on the Euro front, Denmark and Sweden also remain unconvinced.
(If it matters, I am an EU citizen, not a UK citizen)
Iceland and Norway aren’t joining, because they want to control their waters and fishing permits. They still implement all EU regulations not touching those. Switzerland has a weird fetish about being neutral, which currently is just a code word for being the EU’s tax evasion haven. Through agreements with the EU, they too adhere to most EU regulations. And the EU is absolutely attractive to its bigger economies, they get to pull from cheaper labor pools.
I do agree. The EU needs to prove it works.
Lackluster economic performance relative to the US and China doesn’t really make the EU attractive for a country like the UK.
On r/europe, people are delusional. They think the UK will come back begging and will accept a deal without concessions, i.e. no rebate and euro and Schengen obligations.
Reality is, the UK was the second biggest net contributor to the EU for a long time. The EU will need to make an attractive proposal to convince them to come back.
As it is, the EU is only attractive for impoverished peripheral countries.
Meanwhile, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK see more downsides to joining and on the Euro front, Denmark and Sweden also remain unconvinced.
(If it matters, I am an EU citizen, not a UK citizen)
We can wait until UK is one.
With this kind of crab mentality, it’s going to be a race to the bottom.
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Iceland and Norway aren’t joining, because they want to control their waters and fishing permits. They still implement all EU regulations not touching those. Switzerland has a weird fetish about being neutral, which currently is just a code word for being the EU’s tax evasion haven. Through agreements with the EU, they too adhere to most EU regulations. And the EU is absolutely attractive to its bigger economies, they get to pull from cheaper labor pools.
The UK won’t get concessions if it rejoins or at least not the same ones it had.