• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I doubt they would, at all.

    It is in their best interest to give the UK the same standing it once had, because it will make any country think twice about leaving. The UK has suffered outside of the EU, and should it return and see growth, it’ll be the closest ally to the group that you could possibly have.

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      11 months ago

      So, if I’m following correctly your reasoning, you’re in favor of allowing the “person” that abandoned the team to return, in their own term, and with special previliges? Unfair to all other parties.

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        11 months ago

        It wouldn’t be the exact same deal, because the world isn’t exactly the same as it was, but yes, I’d fully expect the UK to retain certain voting rights, to keep the pound, etc.

        Treating the UK poorly would send a message to Eurosceptics that leaving is the point of no return. It would also mean there is one fewer nation to calm any sceptical nations to the power of a combined bloc.

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          11 months ago

          “The UK had special entering rights; we want them as well.”

          Probably all other nations wanting to join.

          And a huge drawback of relations of trust between already in place members.

          No. The EU bent the knee to Tatcher in order to grow in relevance and stability internationally. A rejoining UK needs to recognize it is joining an established and relevant bloc, not an upstart project.

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            11 months ago

            Then it doesn’t rejoin. It’s pretty simple, really.

            It also means that the UK stays as an anti-bloc voice, and it’s successes and failures define the EU.

            It’s a really simple concept, and one that is widely shared by the likes of Ian Hislop and Oli Dugmore. If the EU are inflexible, it doesn’t particularly help with euroscepticism in the UK and the EU.

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              11 months ago

              I’ll reserve my right to scepticism.

              Maybe the UK, after dredging the bottom of the barrel, perhaps in another 25 or 30 years, realizes the gravity of its mistakes and realizes the exit from the EU was a mistake for itself, by itself, and approaches the EU to rejoin, like any other member state.