Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Boris Johnson: The Legacy of the Man Who Achieved Brexit - VisualPolitik EN" video.
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@maritaschweizer1117 - “for America it is better to have 30 small countries to negotiate with”
No, this is actually more difficult, having to maintain separate treaties & rules for every nation.
In some ways, the EU’s bureaucracy does make it more difficult for other nations to create arrangements with them… multi-hundred or multi-thousand page documents to comply with, on a national level, for foreign nations.
The EU bureaucracy kept the UK from negotiating simple arrangements with their former Common Wealth nations… and US. The UK making arrangements with peer nations, where government structures are historically similar, can simplify things.
The UK, with emancipation of the Common Wealth, created stable peer nations. Those stable peer nations were Balkanized when the UK joined the EU.
Many European nations did not have such durable & substantial international relationships post WW2.
Had the UK & EU been able to negotiate special conditions where nations could form agreements with former & historic associated states, it could have benefitted the entire EU.
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