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Nah, thy UK wasn't banished, just decided to leave. If the people will it, it has the right to reapply and queue orderly behind Macedonia and Ukraine.
by lrem 4y ago
Nah, thy UK wasn't banished, just decided to leave. If the people will it, it has the right to reapply and queue orderly behind Macedonia and Ukraine.
- smcl 4y agoAccession to the EU isn't dependent on other countries' applications. If Iceland, Norway, the UK, Switzerland or Liechtenstein decided one day they suddenly wanted to be in the EU, they wouldn't go in a queue behind the other applications - they'd rightly be assessed as "Generally aligned" with the all parts of the EU acquis and the process would be relatively quick, all things considered. Of course they won't reapply any time soon, but that's nothing to do with Ukraine, Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia and all the other countries who are at various staged of the application process.
- ben_w 4y agoI don't think it's an ordered queue? Not that it really matters, I think it would be unwise to readmit the UK unless EU membership becomes overwhelmingly popular, and I don't think that's going to take less than 15 years.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI agree with this, but what I find scary is the prospect that if the gap is too long, you will see the emergence of another generation that is as parochial and anti-Europe as the one I grew up in. The political leaders that took the UK into the EEC in the 1970s did so in the face of a great deal of public opposition. If I try to be optimistic, perhaps cheap holidays in the sun will keep another generation feeling as connected to Europe as those in the 17-40 range currently seem to be. But I'm not an optimist by nature.