• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    UK may come back if this time they fully commit to the union. You know, adopting the € and everything, join Schengen, not constantly being USA’s little bitch.

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      4 days ago

      they were always pretentious and wanting things their way, causing a lot of trouble.
      They are living in the past with the mentality as if they were still some important world power.
      They can stay away, we have enough awful right-wing and genocider bootlicker governments to deal with.

    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      Adopting EUR is genuinely the one thing that’d make me vote against rejoining the EU. Had Britain not had control over fiscal policy in 2008 it would’ve been a unmitigated disaster. Plus sterling is reasonably stable and there’s no real downside to Europe having sterling within the Union given its used quite a bit as a reserve currency.

      • Synapse@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Well, adopting the € is not optional. UK had a special deal to keep the £ back then (so did Danemark), when it was still possible, but this isn’t an option anymore. From the moment your economy meets the requirements, the country shall adopt the €. Czech and Sweden are overdue for the € adoption, they are dragging their feet. I’m not saying the unified currency is always in the best interest of each individual member country, but that’s part of the deal.