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Switzerland is not in the EU.
by Gud 4mo ago
Switzerland is not in the EU.
- lopis 4mo agoWhile it's not part of the EU as a member, Switzerland is quite literally in the EU.
- yulker 4mo agoJust the opposite. It's literally not in the EU. It's literally in Europe but not in the EU.
- BurningFrog 4mo agoOP was making a geometric observation.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoBy that light, the UK is still in the EU. I bet they would disagree though.
- yulker 4mo agoThe term EU doesn't describe a geographic area. It is a membership. Just as if I'm surrounded by members of a book club, I'm not in it.
- jrflowers 4mo agoI like that you ignore that “in” means “inside” in one sentence and then use that exact meaning of the word in the following sentence
- yulker 4mo agoThe term EU describes a membership, it doesn't describe a geographic area. Being in a membership means something different than being in a geographic area. So the term "in" does not have the same meaning across the two contexts.
- p1mrx 4mo agoYou can escape Switzerland by going straight up into space. It's only "in" the EU in 2 dimensions, maybe 2.5 since you can't dig your way out.
- jojomodding 4mo agoAh, that's what they're building the power plants for. Blasting things into space.
- selimthegrim 4mo agoMaybe Tim Curry should move there.
- bilekas 4mo agoIt's not and that's fine, but it's very much part of the European economic area, and we have a great relationship as well as a lot of alignments with standards and so on. The EU wouldn't have no issues taking notes from the Swiss.
- ahtihn 4mo agoSwitzerland is not part of the European economic area, aka EEA.
- fundatus 4mo agoIt formally isn't but for (almost) all intents and purposes it is.
- bilekas 4mo agoYou're correct to point it out. Officially not. But basically yes. We have a free trade and they're part of our Schengen area, so for all intents and purposes there's almost no barriers to trade. I should have been more clear.