Comments by "SaBa" (@saba1030) on "The Real Cost of UK's Independence from EU Revealed" video.

  1. Yes. But being in the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement. EEA = EUs SM NOT negotiatable !! Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club". Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission). The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
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  2. Yes. Apart from being in the EUs SM/EEA/CU is available for EU and EFTA member states ONLY, not though for 3rd countries, according to article 126 of the EEA Agreement. EEA = EUs SM NOT negotiatable !! Norway and Iceland/EFTA, are stating since years, that they'll veto the UK joining EFTA, because they don't want a "trouble maker in their club". Only option available for the UK is to apply for EU membership by fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission). The UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment.
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  3. Well, the UK doesn't even fulfill the needed criteria for APPLYING for EU membership at the moment. Every EU member state can leave the EU27 on its own free will, but it's up to the EU27 only, to decide, which country can join the EU and when. Estimated time needed for joining the EU are minimum 15+ years AFTER fullfilling the Copenhagen Criteria FIRST (which would be monitored by the EUs Commission). Starmer is 62, and about "joining the EU not in his ..." is correct...as Brexit will stay for quite a while..
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  4. ​ @billbhein2949 Yes. You'll be welcomed any time, after being independent from the UK. Good luck, saor Alba 🤞🤞🤞
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  5. Moin. Brexit was about EUs ATAD = Anti Tax Avoidance Directive only. Everything else "around it" was just to get the Brits to vote for it... Greetings from Bremen 👋
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  6. Uk never paid its full membership fee due to the "Brit bargain" since Thatcher, instead it paid about one third of it only. When deducting the losses of Brexit related trading, the payments for border staff, customs controls and vet check ups, civil servants and the needed infrastructure the UK has to take care on its own now instead of sharing the costs etc with the other EUs member states.. The loss of EUs subsidies... UK lost £ 100 billion due to Brexit in 2022 UK lost £ 140 billion due to Brexit in 2023 | Bloomberg and Financial Times and UKgov
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  7. It's no "FOM, but a visa for one of the 27 EU and 4 EFTA member states only, with a limited time frame of max 4 years to study, have an apprenticeship or work for young people ...which isn't anything special to the UK but the EU27 have that "youth mobility" with many other 3rd countries world wide...
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