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For Scotland is like jumping off a sinking ship to swim to a nearby one afloat. Yes, it's cold and wet at first, but the other option is worse.
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I don't remember any expert in 2016 foreseeing that Brexit would have meant so many new British investments in the single market. They expected doom and gloom for the EU also, only on a different scale than for the UK. It came out instead that Brexit IS indeed a success. For the EU.
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He voted for the "have my cake and eat it" brexit. Why hadn't it been delivered?
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For Scotland is like jumping off a sinking ship to swim to a nearby one afloat. Yes, it's cold and wet at first, but the other option is worse.
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What about a "slaughter your own turkey" campaign? You just have to buy them still alive from the farm.
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@redstomp9664 EU meat being below UK standard is a fairy tale brexiters like to hear? Like someone forgot from where the bovine spongiform encephalopathy came. Fact is that 50.7% of what Brits eat came out of a factory. It's ultra-processed food they don't know the origin of or the aspect it originally had. This percentage is 14.2% for the French and 13.4% for the Italians.
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They realised that "Brexit" had been a mistake, but if you present them the same thing wrapped in a different paper, they'll buy it again, because it's consistent with their way of thinking. With what they consider "real". "Fuck the EU!", "Tougher stance!", "They need us more than we need them!", "The French will back down!". Those had been their ideas for decades and none of them realised "my ideas were wrong", only "I've been lied to".
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In case of UK suspending the Protocol or parts of it, tariffs would be put right away. it's not a political decision, but purely a technical one, and a list of counter-measures to chose from had already been decided, because that's how the EU works (have you noticed that, when someone announces new tariffs against the EU, counter-tariffs are announced within 24 hours?)
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@Rich_H_1972 On the other hand, exactly all those vetos and opt-outs reduced UK's bargaining power. In any democracy, the more courted voters are the swing ones. UK constant foot-dragging made them predictable. Since UK's opposition to any advancement in EU integration was granted, diplomatic activity was focused on how to bypass it.
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@justmythought7658 Not to say that, while the EU was having a slow start, EU AstraZeneca plants were EXPORTING million of doses to UK. UK had an headstart thanks to vaccines made in the EU.
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The trade war is already in place. Biden lifted US tarifs on EU steel and aluminium, and the EU lifted its retailatory tariffs (and didn't apply the newly announced ones) in exchange. Those of UK are still in place, but the US simply don't care. UK is not big enough.
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To match that of Germany, UK export per capita should increase ALMOST THREE FOLD. Before matching Germany's export per capita, UK's one should first surpass (among the European countries) those of Poland, Spain, Latvia, France, Italy, Malta, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. good luck.
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@stevedennison4095 The EU is practical, and exactly because it's practical,it will never put it's own existence in jeopardy for some hypotetical economic gain. So no. Like there never materialised the German car makers to the rescue, there will be no cherry picking agreement that could persuade someone else that you can skip some rule.
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No EU directive prevented anyone to stamp the side of a glass with any kind of image to indicate it contains a pint, a snail, or an elbow of liquid. The only thing the EU rules provide is that, if that measure is "certified" (so the glass contains exactly 568ml) then it has to sport the "CE" stamp of the certification autority somewere.
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@anonnemo2504 No, sorry. With 54% of fully vaccinated people UK is VERY FAR from the end of its vaccination programme. Spain already overtook UK share of fully vaccinated population (Ireland did ages ago). The other main European countries will follow this same week. Spain France and Italy currently have THREE TIMES the daily vaccination rates than UK, and higher than UK ever had.
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Once requirements to drive gas trucks will be relaxed there'll be no shortage of fireworks.
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The country that military aided Ukraine the most, bar the US, Is Germany, with almost three times the aid provided by UK.
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"We must unite with the EU in all agreeing UK can have all that it wants".
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They are not even that interested, infact an eventual US-UK trade deal, even fully on US terms, is back of the queue. Fact is that US trade with the EU is ten times that with UK, and, since one trade agreement will influence the other, only a fool would put the one with UK ahead. But the EU is a tough negotiator. The US-EU trade agreement will take years to be signed. So...
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Given the support fishermen gave to brexit, there's a poetic justice in the fish counter to be permanently closed.
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@anonnemo2504 Since people keep on dying for COVID in UK at an higher rate than in the EU, no, sorry. It counts who first reach a share of vaccinated people high enough to make transmission virtually impossible.
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@hectorpascal Because it always worked like that. The republicans barking at immigrant labour force, without biting, helped keeping their wage demands low.
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In case of farmers, their own organizations told them so. It had not been enough.
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Just like the retaliatory tariffs on US, the decision on what to target is left to the EU bureocracy, and it doesn't need any vote in the Parliament to impose them. That's why it's pretty quick. It's practically automatic. It's not a political decision, it's a reflex.
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There is another option. To apply retailatory measures on UK trade proportional with the possible damage to the Single Market. And that's what will be done. UK is breaching an internation agreement by not applying it, and the answer is not to not apply it (that would be to do what the culprit wants), but to fine the culprit.
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Imagine visiting a house, and at a certain point the real-estate agent, unsolicited, says: "And dont' worry, there's no risk for the LPG gas tank in the backyard to explode".
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Have the day you voted for.
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I'm left in awe by the generosity and selflessness demonstrated by the UK in those trade agreements. Finally a big economy that doesn't exploit the smaller ones, but donate them instead all that they want in exchange of nothing. The British government and people are surely earning their places in paradise.
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France Spain and Italy currently have daily vaccination rates about three times higher than UK, and higher than those UK EVER had.
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"In Switzerland, the Federal Act on Product Safety (PrSG) aims on the one hand at guaranteeing the safety of products on the market for commercial or professional uses and, on the other hand, at reducing technical barriers to trade by harmonising Swiss legislation with the rules of the European Union – SWITZERLAND'S LARGEST TRADING PARTNER. The PrSG Act transposes Directive 2001/95/EC on general product safety into Swiss law."
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Putin and his lackeys are the only nazi here.
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Even more because, when UK was a EU member, when there was the slightiest hint that some EU action could have had some minimal negative effect on UK, the public outrage was absolutely evident.
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Actually, the financial sector had always been pretty adamant that brexit would have been a disaster for the UK. The City of London voted remain 73.5% and Greater London 59.9%. Differently from rural England, they knew from where their money came.
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Free hotels for Australians visiting GB... Gift cards... The Crown Jewels...
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It's not the task of the EU to campaign for Labour. Johnson is UK's Prime Minister and his government represents ALL of UK. If that government is unreliable, is UK that's unreliable. If UK acts as a rogue nation, it's UK that must be punished. The EU can think to hit the Tory constituencies and interests more than proportionally, but they are not required to do that exclusively.
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@duprattcarol The court doesn't cease to exist only because the defendant doesn't recognise it.
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When the news came out, I stated that the only alea was if the EU would have cared to answer, as an act of kindness, just to show UK they still consider them, or just ignored the statement. It had been the second one. At this point they don't consider them even worthy of an answer.
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No fuel for your car = you want to use it the least that's possible = you fill it with the shopping of three weeks instead of one.
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In the first 3 months of 2025 the marked for BEV in Italy went up by 75.4% in respect to the year before. That's why Tesla's sales are down "only" of 6.8%. In reality it's market share plummeted.
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Untreated bubonic plague only have a 12% mortality. 88 people out of 100 can ask the same question. The others are dead.
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@anonnemo2504 So, again: "It counts who first reach a share of vaccinated people high enough to make transmission virtually impossible."
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@anonnemo2504 Variants don't emerge out of nothing. They need people to be infected to emerge. What counts is who first reach a share of vaccinated people high enough to make transmission virtually impossible. So the UK "securing an adequate supply of effective vaccines as quickly as possible" had been so successful that UK had been hit by a pretended "Spanish" and an Indian variant more than anyone else in Europe, Spain included (more than strange, statistically). It's quite evident that UK utterly failed at "securing an adequate supply of effective vaccines as quickly as possible". So have you datas stating that people are dying for COVID in EU at an higher rate than in the UK? Otherwise, since people keep on dying for COVID in UK at an higher rate than in the EU its quite evident that UK utterly failed at "securing an adequate supply of effective vaccines as quickly as possible".
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@anonnemo2504 So you are stating UK has no hope to reach the main goal, so had to revert to a second best? That doesn't force the other to not reach the main one, does it? Than I'll stick to the available ones. It seems that you are clutching at straws to proclaim some sort of victory for the hopelessly incompetent UK government.
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@1maico1 At 28 lug. 742.847 covid deaths had been registred in the EU out of 448.84 million inhabitants, or 1655 deaths per million, so EU has a lower total death rate than UK. In the last 14 days there had been 4.33 covid related deaths per million people in the EU. In the UK there had been 485 total deaths, or 7.27 deaths per million people. So EU has a lower current death rate than UK. That's statistic for you.
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@anonnemo2504 I refer you to my answer to tyour answer above. Your attention span seems to be a little short. The fact that you don't like the datas doesn't mean you can make others ignore them.
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@anonnemo2504 Your answer to my answer is nonsense. Why should I take any account of it? Since you don't like the data, you pretend people to ignore them without being able to provide anything better. The fact that you don't like them does not mean others should ignore them.
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Simply, by withdrawing from the EU, you don't have more funds available, you have less, because UK has to do, all by itself, things that, before, the EU did for 27 members, and has less tax revenues to do so.
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Cargo areas in ports are like extra-territorial areas, but that's true only if the cargo then is loaded on another ship and leaves the port. If it's placed on a truck, then it's imported and it's subject to custom duties and tariffs.
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Because the EU didn't want it to be included, and the UK government wanted to have a deal as soon as possible.
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@jakecolburn8946 The EU has not to do anything, UK has to control what flows from GB to NI. If It fails to do so, the EU has to retailate for any potential damage to the Single Market.
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Euro.
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Because, even if trade unbalance widened in EU's favour, as you can see, EU's sales in UK grew less than with ANY other partner and UK is the only partner whose sales in the EU diminished. Even if the outcome isn't nearly as disastrous as for UK, less trade isn't good for EU either.
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It has already been negotiated. Now UK has to implement what they already signed.
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"France has to stop threats, or ese we'll be too much shaken to print those licences fast enough to please them!"
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It's the "Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off" syndrome. The others need the UK more than the UK needs them. So they are gloating, thinking they are forcing all those EU citizens that crave to visit UK to apply for a passport.
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The Aussies realised they can ask for more. Free hotels for Australians visiting GB... Gift cards... The Crown Jewels...
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Should the EU start sending Red Cross parcels to UK?
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@verystripeyzebra That deal only applied to the transit of few kind of goods between GB and NI. A "Swiss style deal" in the terms that are sold to the public nowadays is another unicorn. Nont only Switzerland is a rule taker, pays for the access to the Single Market, and accepts the jurisdiction of the ECJ, but between Switzerland and the EU there is freedom of movement for the people, and there is an open issue between EU and Switzerland exactly because, to EU, "freedom of movement" means "for EU citizens", without limitations, while, for the Swiss means "of the employees", so it only applies to who has a job (with the EU citizens that can't be discriminated in favour of the Swiss), or is wealty enough to mantain himself in the Confederation. It's OBVIOUS than, in an eventual negotiation with UK, the matter would be very clearly defined the EU way. So, four freedoms. No escapes. In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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The EU "mild" sanctions had been decided BEFORE the Russian attack. Those in response of the invasion have yet to be announced.
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How many times do you want to post this shit? The EU works thanks to treaties that ALL the members have to follow once they have signed them. You can't sign a treaty, and then declare you'll follow it if you'll feel like that. That's why EU laws have supremacy over national laws.
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See... It's not the task of the EU to campaign for Labour. Johnson is UK's Prime Minister and his government represents ALL of UK. If that government is unreliable, is UK that's unreliable. If UK acts as a rogue nation, it's UK that must be punished. The EU can think to hit the Tory constituencies and interests more than proportionally, but they are not required to do that exclusively.
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@anonnemo2504 It seems you are practicing a little delusion, I recommend you more realism. Have you datas stating that people are dying for COVID in EU at an higher rate than in the UK?
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Strangely, shelves are full and there are no queues on petrol stations in France and Germany.
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More tourism for EU countries. Thank you UK!
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I actually want to commend the UK government for the ingenious solution to the problem. It must be applied to other sectors as well! Why none thought to say to sick people to stop being sick and start be healty? To the ones that call for emergency to stop being in danger? It could save billions!
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Shelves are filled everywere in the EU, sorry.
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@justonecornetto80 US cares. UK has no case for triggering anything.
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@justonecornetto80 So the US cares, only you don't like it. UK has not even started to implement its part of the NI protocol, so it can no speak of "diversion of trade" or "societal difficulties", so UK has no case for triggering anything. Ireland being united or has nothing to do with the protocol.
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And people will finally return to buy their cellphones from the local cellsmith.
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Yeah, yeah, it's collapsing any moment! Hold your breath!
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None in the CPTPP gives a damn about UK.
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The only problem with the NI protocol is that UK refuses to implement it. The refusal of UK to implement the NI protocol damages the Single market, and that's enough to allow economic reprisals. EU can decide to check 100% of the people and goods coming from UK to EU at any time without even the need for the UK to do something wrong. UK can do the same, if it wants to starve it's own people.
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No. "Germany" NEVER declared that in certain circumstances German law has supremacy over EU laws. On the contrary, about the ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court of May 2020, that triggered the “infringement proceeding” by the Commission (so it has not gone without consequences), the German government argued that "the court acted in accordance with EU law", so recognising the primacy of EU law.
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@Petal4822 If you decide to exercise your freedom to post bullshit, the others can exercise their freedom to school you. The misplaced racist delusion pretty much define brexiters.
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"Finally our rivers will be provided with all the heavy metals they need. Let those Europeans chug their chemicals. British metal-enriched water is going to be much stronger than the soft water available in the EU!"
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Despite Italy being one of the signatories, the news in Italy had not even got close to be told on TV. Maybe in some remote article on newspapers.
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Actually there is an open issue between EU and Switerland exactly because, to EU, "freedom of movement" means "for EU citizens", without limitations, while, for the Swiss means "of the employees", so it only applies to who has a job, or is wealty enough to mantain himself in the Confederation. It's OBVIOUS than, in an eventual negotiation with UK, the matter would be very clearly defined the EU way. In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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They are happy ports because they are British ports! They are unloading cargos of SOVEREIGNTY!
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They realised that "Brexit" had been a mistake, but if you present them the same thing wrapped in a different paper, they'll buy it again, because it's consistent with their way of thinking. With what they consider "real". "Fuck the EU!", "Tougher stance!", "They need us more than we need them!", "The French will back down!". Those had been their ideas for decades and none of them realised "my ideas were wrong", only "I've been lied to".
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@lellyparker No, they didn't. But it's nice to hear that the Brexiters still dream of seeing the EU "cave". In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements, many of them dating back to when the EEC was way smaller. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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"I isn't true that we have no friends post Brexit" "Ok, let's pretend someone ever said that, what friends we have?" "We pissed off the French!" "Oh..."
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UK chose to leave the single market while leaving NI in it. They had been told IN EVERY WAY by the EU partners that it implied putting a border on the north channel, but every anticipation of problems arising had been labelled by the UK government as "project fear". NI economically is no more part of UK (it had never been part of Britain). NI is in the single market, and Britain is not. Welcome to project fear.
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Infact the other option (the one that would be taken) is to apply retailatory measures on UK trade proportional with the possible damage to the Single Market. UK is breaching an internation agreement by not applying it, and the answer is not to not apply it (that would be to do what the culprit wants), but to fine the culprit.
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The EU did what had been agreed by both parties. The EU have claimed? When? Are you able to provide the source?
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@susancurtis1651 Many matters still require unanimity. Enough that one vote out of 27 has much control over everything. NOTHING had been done in the EU without UK's approval. Despite Uk politicians always selling to their voters "it's EU's fault", and Brits eagerly buying it. EU fishermen ceased to care about UK fishermen in 2016. “they are not worth a light” is how UK government consider it's fishermen it seems.
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During the Great Depression the Americans invented the "Hoover Stew", to feed a family with the cheapest ingredients available. Time for the Brits to invent the "Johnson Stew".
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The possibilities for the UK-Irleand bid to beat the Spain-Portugal bid (without even mentioning the others) for WC 2030, after the last two matches at Wembley, are at the level that people directly laugh in your face.
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@gbormann71 Actually they thought those negotiations were not important. That they were not the REAL negotiations. UK government lived in the expectation that, at a certain point, Merkel would have stepped in and given them all that they wanted to not lose market shares in the UK. They never realised that, across the channel, Brexit was old news. And the EU members would have treated it like any other trade negotiation, leaving it to the "unelected bureocracy", AKA "the professionals".
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The EU works thanks to treaties that ALL the members have to follow once they have signed them. You can't sign a treaty, and then declare you'll follow it if you'll feel like that. That's why EU laws have supremacy over national laws.
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@Petal4822 You can enjoy freedom as much as you want but, if you decide to exercise your freedom to break contracts you signed, the other will exercise their freedom to retaliate. The misplaced racist delusion pretty much define brexiters.
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It's still collapsing tomorrow?
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Actually, if the Commission can now openly challenge the Polish government, treatening to cut their subsidies if they don't behave, is exactly because they know that, thanks to the UK example, every public opinion of the EU is now shit scared to exit from it.
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@casteretpollux That's not decided at political level. Retaliatory measures for breaching of agreements, for the EU, are bureocratic-level actions. They are applied automatically and immediately. Like they had been with the US.
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Mandatory masks are surely to blame. Without masks the shelves would be filled!
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The EU has learned to cope with it's own gigantism, by leaving political-level decisions to the minimum. To sign the good friday agreement was a political-level decision. Since the political-level signed the good friday agreement, the EU bureocracy negotiated the NI Protocol. Already there was very little political involvment in it by the EU. If the protocol is broken by the other party, retaliatory tariffs are practically automatic, like they had been in the last trade war with US. For the EU they are not a decision, they are a reflex.
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Solar generated electricity doesn't work? LOL! In what world you live in? Solar ALREADY revolutionized electricity cost structure. Mid-day generated electricity USED to be the most expensive one, because consumption was higher in those hours. NOW mid day electricity is dirt-cheap, because consumption is higher in those hours, BUT those are the hours solar produces the most. The most expensive energy is now the one produced around dinnertime. Solar produced energy is SO cheap that research, NOW, is not that much on more efficient panels, but on the most cost-effective ways to store that super-cheap energy produced around noon, to use it just after the sunset.
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@jazzx251 Everyone loves the Scots. They are in the world's imagination. Everyone watched Braveheart, Rob Roy..., everyone imagines the highlands, Macbeth, the castles... "Made in Scotland" would be a very powerful brand.
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To carry the carcasses abroad to be processed and then re-imported is a short-term strategy, because obviously that pork is not competitive in the long term with that simply imported from the EU. It will be carried on until enough farmers had gone bankrupt.
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Essentially, the only EU states whose political situation would be "favourable" for UK's plans, those of the Visegrad group, depend heavily on EU development funds, so their eventual solidarity will never come to the point of breaking the cash machine.
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@pam-gw6uk Are we talking of the UK that, after a week of bombing Lybia, had to call for the US because they were running short of bombs? Them intervening or not in Ukraine is pretty much irrelevant.
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That UK is at the back of the queue. How else could it end?
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There's a downside on better pays in sectors exposed to foreign competition. That the actual level of pay is barely enough to keep those sectors afloat. Having to pay their workers more, they can only transfer the higher costs to the price of finished products, and so they are going lose competitiveness, market share, and not being able to pay even the previous level of wages.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but any increase in wages not driven by an increase in productivity will only end in increased inflaction. You don't became a "hig wage, high skilled" country only by doubling wages. You have to double the skill BEFORE.
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@Petal4822 Because "high wage high skill" countries are notorious for their low profit of margin, LOL! It doesn't work like that, sorry. There are no "huge profit margins" because capitals can move freely, so they are levelled internationally. Why should "greedy businesses" reduce their profit margins, if they can mantain them simply by investing elsewere? Because they are not greedy? Any increase in wages not driven by an increase in productivity will only end in increased inflaction.
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@Petal4822 Your understanding of economics is worse.
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@Petal4822 That doesn't change how wages and inflaction work.
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@anonnemo2504 Exactly because variants can appear, what counts is who first reach a share of vaccinated people high enough to make transmission virtually impossible. Not by chance, of the last two major variants of COVID in Europe, one is "English" and the other hit England before and more heavily than anyone else. Since people keep on dying for COVID in UK at an higher rate than in the EU its quite evident that UK utterly failed at "securing an adequate supply of effective vaccines as quickly as possible".
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Falsely appropriated. They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact the legislative proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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If you go to the English site of Zamberlan (famous Italian manufacturer of sporting and safety boots) you'll directly read "We inform our kind customers that orders to the UK are temporarily suspended". And those are goods that cost at least 200 pounds for kg and have no expire date.
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To the EU it doesn't matter if Johnson is a serious premier or a rabid dog. Vice-President Maros Šefčovič said: “I have listened to and engaged with Northern Irish stakeholders. Today's proposals are our genuine response to their concerns. We have put a lot of hard work into them to make a tangible change on the ground, in response to the concerns raised by the people and businesses of Northern Ireland. We are looking forward to engaging earnestly and intensively with the UK government, in the interest of all communities in Northern Ireland.” Johnson is not even nominated. The EU proposals are an answer not to the UK government (that's simply a part that's needed to discuss about the solutions, not the one recognised to have indicated the problems), but to the problems that people in NI raised, because what actually matter for the EU is NI (because NI matters for the Republic of Ireland, a EU member), not UK.
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Italy has over 50% population fully vaccinated. Spain already overtook UK. The other main EU countries will this same week. France Spain and Italy currently have daily vaccination rates about three times higher than UK, and higher than those UK EVER had.
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Treated equally or differently is a UK internal affair. To the EU, Great Britain, is a third country. Since that's what they chose to be. NI is part of the single market. Since that's what had been agreed. Any item coming from a third country into the single market must be checked. If Great Britain decides to smuggle goods into the single market without cheking, retaliatory measures will be applied on Great Britain. For the EU that's not even a political-level decision. It's an automatic reflex. The EU leaves to the EU bureocracy to decide the application and the appropriate measure of retaliations in cases like that, like they did with the US.
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You already have visas for butchers, but no foreign butcher applied. Just the paperwork involved is not worth it.
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Never too much of a good thing...
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You need lorry drivers to carry gas to gas stations. They are not extracted from the North Sea.
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@rhettbutler289 WWII was kind of an emergency, you know. One aircraft more or less crashed in landing was not that important, while some hundred pilots could make the difference. Actually UK had a 100.000 truck drivers shortage. Drive schools can't train that much in two years. The army has 3000 certified truck drivers in total, and most of them are in the army reserve, so they already work everyday as lorry drivers, and can't be counted two times. Infact, hear hear, the government backpedaled and announced visas on truck drivers.
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@rhettbutler289 Maybe the people involved would have deemed otherwise. UK government decided it was not enough of an emergency to let unprepared truck drivers handle flammable chemicals.
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Simply, by withdrawing from the EU, you don't have more funds available, you have less, because UK has to do all by itself things that, before, the EU did for 27 members, and has less tax revenues to do so.
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During the war, thus constrained by shortages, British autorities tried to feed war prisoners in N.Africa reaching the prescribed amount of calories in every way possible, IE distributing those calories in form of peanuts. It can be an idea.
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Shouldn't it be: Phase 3. Abolish the monarchy, have himself made Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, Boris Winston Spencer "Horatio" Oliver Johnson...
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Brexiteers believe those problems are WORSE in the EU.
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The Commission doesn't need green light from all EU countries to start or fight a trade war. Green light had never been given for the trade war with US that was a much more serious affair.
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Can you assure that German musician wouldn't have tended a garden? Uh?
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They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact a proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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@jimbob-robob You have to explain what you sell, It's not enough a fantasy name. So it will be "Fruixit, gelée de fruit", not "Fruixit confiture", and those that are looking for confiture will not even see it. At the supermarket you search for milk, not for "Milxit, some liquid that comes out of a cow".
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Eastern countries and Turkey takes ages to join mainly due to constitutional and legal issues (democracy, death penalty, indipendence of the judiciary systems, of the press, and so on).
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Alcoholics that can't drive any more in their countries.
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Following Fox News is a choice.
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@jakecolburn8946 "Potential" damage. If there's the possibility of any good to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's a potential damage. If there's the possibility of goods for a value of, to say, 1 billion euros to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's 1 billion Euros potential damage, and the EU can retaliate for that value.
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@jakecolburn8946 To make random inspections is common practice at every border. It means the border is controlled. To decide to not make any inspection is to say any smuggler can pass whatever he wants. So there's a potential damage. If there's the POSSIBILITY of any good to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's a potential damage. If there's the possibility of goods for a value of, to say, 1 billion euros to enter into the Single Market unchecked, that's 1 billion Euros potential damage, and the EU can retaliate for that value.
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@jakecolburn8946 If UK doesn't perform the checks, there's no way to know what flows from GB to NI. It can be drugs or the untreated shit the Brits spill in their rivers. It's the UK that has to control what flows from GB to NI. If It fails to do so, the EU has to retailate for any potential damage to the Single Market.
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@Petal4822 You should study more the laws of the European Union before making parallels.
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They know perfectly well that the President can't force private companies to reduce prices with an executive order. It's clearly illegal. The order will be challenged in court and blocked within days. The Congress can do that, and there is infact a proposal of Bernie Sanders for that. But Trump and the Republicans are obviously not going to support that. All they want is the occasion to attack judges at no cost.
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"50 odd deaths a jab" means nothing. Is the rate that counts. 1 odd death for million doses administred is below any statistical significance.
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By imposing retaliatory tariffs for any potential damage done to the Single market by not implementing the NI protocol.
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What minister recently said UK must adapt to the end of the distortions created by being in the EU? Having the shelves full and plenty of options was a distortion. This is the natural state of things.
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"The highest standards in the world..."
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Tories.
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Why India, that has very high trade barriers to protect it's own industry, should make an exemption for UK? What UK has to offer, to those 7.5 billion potential customers, better than what the EU can offer? Nothing. Infact all the trade deals UK signed since Brexit, are or identical to those it already had as a EU member (so no replacement) or worse.
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It's time to quit with those eastern musicians who steal the job of British ones!
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"Safeguard and rebalancing measures taken in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be governed by the procedures set out in Annex 7 to this Protocol." Annex 7 1. Where the Union or the United Kingdom is considering taking safeguard measures under Article 16(1) of this Protocol, it shall, without delay, notify the Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, through the Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information. 2. The Union and the United Kingdom shall immediately enter into consultations in the Joint Committee with a view to finding a commonly acceptable solution. 3. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may not take safeguard measures until 1 month has elapsed after the date of notification under point 1, unless the consultation procedure under point 2 has been concluded before the expiration of the state limit. When exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action exclude prior examination, the Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may apply forthwith the protective measures strictly necessary to remedy the situation. 4. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, shall, without delay, notify the measures taken to the Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information. 5. The safeguard measures taken shall be the subject of consultations in the Joint Committee every 3 months from the date of their adoption with a view to their abolition before the date of expiry envisaged, or to the limitation of their scope of application. The Union or the United Kingdom, as the case may be, may at any time request the Joint Committee to review such measures. 6. Points 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to rebalancing measures referred to in Article 16(2) of this Protocol. So UK has to talk for one month (point 3), unless it's disonhest enough to claim "exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action exclude prior examination". In that case the EU can retailate immediately because "Points 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to rebalancing measures referred to in Article 16".
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Before invading, Putin recognised the indipendentist republics, that's diplomatically like burning bridges behind you. ANY solution that doesn't contemplate indipendent republics/annexation to Russia would be a defeat now. At this point the sanctions have only two purposes. 1) to persuade Putin to not invade the rest of Ukraine. 2) Since the only limit to Russia's expansionism now is its current economical inability to sustain a prolonged military campaign, sanctioning Russia automatically means to reduce its treat.
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Hilarious, in the US too until, in 1973, the FDA approved sawdust as a food additive, and now is normally contained in what Americans eat.
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UK maxed out its daily vaccination rates on Mar. 21 and declined since there. France Spain and Italy currently have 3 times the daily vaccinations rate than UK, Spain already overtook UK as rate of fully vaccinated people, and the other main EU countries will follow soon. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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@ADifferentBias It has to be said that those "practical" issues are the fields were the EU can help even before Scotland formally joining the EU or even the single market. It's the kind of help/formation program the EU normally provide to other countries and is pretty good at.
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In the first 3 months of 2025 the marked for electric cars in Italy increased by 75.4% in respect to the year before. That's why Tesla's sales are down "only" of 6.8%. In reality it's market share plummeted.
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Just like the retaliatory tariffs on US, the decision on what to target is left to the EU bureocracy. That's why it's pretty quick. It's practically automatic. It's not a political decision, it's a reflex.
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🤣🤣 Why shouldn't they laugh? EU has a better deal than before, and EU fishermen have a competitor less. BTW, when UK was a EU member, NOTHING had been done without it's approval.
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@susancurtis1651 The EU produces less laws than any national parliament, and the process to make them is more complicate, since it's a collaboration between the parliament, the Commission and the Council. Any member state has representatives in the first two, and ministers in the third, the political majorities are different, so any law is the result of MUCH more debate than national laws. You are no more "railroaded" by the EU than by your own city, or State.
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