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British people, do you think at some point in the future the UK will rejoin the EU? If yes, when and on what terms? (piefed.zip)
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[โ€“] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's no insistence on UK adopting the Euro.

Any new member state adopts the Euro and joins the Schengen area. This is not something to insist, it's just a rule that exists regardless of insisting or not insisting. Or insisting to not insist โ€“ whatever.

If the UK ever joins the EU, it will also join the Euro. It's not really something that is up for debate.

[โ€“] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You might be right, but if the UK did have to adopt the Euro like you say, I would guess that British support for rejoining would decline. If it really is a red line for the EU then it would probably lead to a lot of debate in the UK. Like I said though, for the moment the UK will probably just adopt half measures which bring the UK slightly closer to the EU.

[โ€“] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, it should have caused that debacle before they elected to let go of all the concessions they had.

But yeah, I think a lot of EU countries would revolt if UK was let in without having to join the Euro and Schengen. And yes, I believe this does indeed mean that UK is not going to rejoin within the next half a century at least. Also a reason it feels a bit stupid trying to integrate them into EU stuff โ€“ they're going to prefer staying out anyhow (unleas they get concessions they won't get) so why bother?

Of course, if they want to follow some EU rules, why not? And for each EU rule they proactively and reliably implement, they should of course receive the relevant goodies, just like Norway. But, at least I would not want the EU to spend our resources trying to pull UK into doing anything it's not motivated enough to do out of its own accord.