Comments by "G. F. W." (@g.f.w.6402) on "Economics Help" channel.

As a German, I find it bizarre and presumptuous in equal measure to think that the British can simply rejoin the EU. It doesn't matter what is written somewhere on patient paper. In the UK, I don't think they realized that both Germany and France had a wet dream come true with the Brexit. And all the other members have nothing to say anyway.
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@stephenfarthing3819 There are always two in a marriage. It is questionable whether Europe, especially Germany and France, would even let the UK back onto the market. Probably not. And the divorce has been announced for a long time, from both sides. Since the 2000s, politicians in Brussels have only rolled their eyes in annoyance at British ideas and, above all, demands.
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@stephenfarthing3819 As always in European history, there is no going back after such events. Should the British ever wish to return, it would not be the Germans but the French who would respond and, after congratulating on the British decision, dictate their unacceptable terms. A return of the UK would strengthen the German position in the EU and weaken the French and Southern European (common debt). The French will definitely know how to prevent that. In addition, within the EU, the British markets have already been divided between Germany and France. As a historian, I allow myself a cheeky comparison: it's basically like after the second world war, when the British had formally got what they wanted but their bankruptcy estate was already divided by others (between the USA and the Soviet Union).
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That is not totally true. We Germans only wanted more economic integration so that we could control the continent economically. The French, however, not only want more economic integration, but also more political integration in order to get their hands on German money (this is even written in French newspapers). And this is where the British and the Germans ticked the same: neither wanted political integration together with the French. Unfortunately, the German position was weakened by the Brexit. We will see the day when Eastern Europeans like Poles or Romanians, who had a famine at the end of the 80s, will pay for the debts of the French and Southern Europeans who partied for decades.
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