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There have been 3 previous exits from the EU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_Union#Past_withdrawals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi
by sien 10y ago
There have been 3 previous exits from the EU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_Union#Past_withdrawals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U...
The assumption that Britain will do poorly is also questionable. Perhaps it will do just fine.
If so, referendums in other EU countries could start.
- gbog 10y agoYour previous "exits" are Algeria, Greenland, St Bartelemy. Do you really think it counts as precedents?
- sien 10y agoYes. Definitely Greenland. 92% of the exports go to the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland%E2%80%93European_Union_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland%E2%80%93European_Uni... None of the examples are the same, but they were all in. There is an article 50 because of these exits. There has been a precedent.
- gbog 10y agoWhat's the population of Greenland already?
- dragonwriter 10y agoNo, as that article notes, none of the three examples is a member state withdrawing from the EU. (Two were withdrawals from pre-EU bodies by entities that we not member states when they either became independent of a member state or were granted home rule, and one of those remains associated with the EU as an OCT; the third was a region subject to a member state switching from OMR to OCT status.)