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Why would anyone want to join the EU? What's the advantage? Hand over significant authority to an unelected body, for what now? There is no advantage, unless
by alexasmyths 9y ago
Why would anyone want to join the EU?
What's the advantage?
Hand over significant authority to an unelected body, for what now?
There is no advantage, unless you're receiving subsidies.
We already have a trade deal with Europe, something the EU doesn't even want to offer the UK apparently.
- danmaz74 9y agoThere are many reasons, but the one relevant to this case is: because the US and China etc. can so easily bully EU states as they do with sovereign smaller countries.
- danmaz74 9y ago* can't
- alexasmyths 9y agoThat is probably the only good reason but the EU is not at all required for that. Especially in the viciously undemocratic manner in which it is organized.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoHand over significant authority to an unelected body, for what now? That's strange, I'm sure I remember voting in EU elections.
- _khau 9y agoWorker protections, guarantered 20+ paid holidays a year, paid maternity leave, an organisation attempting to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes, a willingness to take US tech giants to task that believe they are above the law, access to the worlds largest economy, generous EU funding schemes directed to deprived areas of member states that their own governments have demonstrated time and time again that they are not willing to do themselves. I mean, that's just off the top of my head. Nobody thinks the EU is perfect and it can improve in many ways, but your lies don't convince anyone of anything.