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The EU doesnt need the departure of the UK to face an existential crisis, they faced their biggest test with the Pandemic and failed miserably.
by drumhead 6y ago
The EU doesnt need the departure of the UK to face an existential crisis, they faced their biggest test with the Pandemic and failed miserably.
- Barrin92 6y agoThe EU has now largely quelled the disease, mostly restored freedom of movement and is in the process of mobilizing financial support and reforming its institutions while the pandemic is only picking up steam in the Americas, the ME, Africa and India. There was a lot that went wrong and the EU is as always excruciatingly slow and lacking solidarity, but compared to much of the rest of the world despite being hit early the situation has been managed well. Support for brexit in the UK itself has now fallen to 35%, while almost 60% would support staying in the union. Similar rise in support is also visible on the continent with support for anti-EU populist parties pretty much in free fall, so I have no idea where this narrative is coming from. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/uk/uk-supports-eu-four-years-after-brexit-intl-gbr/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/uk/uk-supports-eu-four-ye...
- iso947 6y agoUS states had to deploy the national guard to defend their supplies against federal troops
- ben_w 6y agoThe EU is a trading block with an affiliated currency (used outside and not in all member states) and affiliated human rights court (all member states are in it and so are some other states). It doesn’t have a health policy, AFAIK. That said, if the EU did have a combined health policy, and the pandemic was a test of this policy, then the EU faired better than the UK. (As did Scotland, despite being part of the UK and not independent).