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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not about redemption or something like that. EU membership is a process and open to all european countries. If UK wants to join again, we don't need an apology from the population.

(and, by the way: 2016 was 9 years ago. With a life expectancy of 78 years and a voting age of 18 a bigger part of those who voted for Brexit have already died. No one under 27 was even able to vote. The migrant population also had no vote here)

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree.

There is a lot of BS about setting an example and punishing them, but I have not seen anyone who actually knows how the process works say anything remotely like that.

It would also be a massive case of the EU cutting off it's nose to spite it's face. That's just not how the EU rolls.

The normal process of joining has requirements geared towards poor peripheral countries that the UK already meets or exceeds.

The UK can join anytime it wishes and there is even a lot of room to negotiate mutually beneficial terms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I do think it would be fair to require them to adopt the Euro this time around, for example. But even if that doesn't happen as long as everyone is better with the UK in then it's worth it.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

It would feel fair, but it's also not that important for either the EU or the Euro itself.

The Euro is really a 1990s invention, when cash was dominant. Now that all payments are digital, it really doesn't matter if countries use the Euro or their own currency.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Any country joining the EU pledges to join the euro, but there are no deadlines defined and there is little animo to push countries to join, but technically it's part of the deal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

you are aware you just gave THE best plea on why the EU should NOT think about letting UK back in, right?