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originally posted by: ScepticScot
All trade deals are done through the EU. EU is a customs union and single market.
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
originally posted by: ScepticScot
All trade deals are done through the EU. EU is a customs union and single market.
I honestly didn't realize that.
So when the members of the royal family went to Saudi Arabia to sell them weapons, is that because the EU told them to go and the royals complied, or did the royals want to do it and had to get the EU's permission first?
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: ScepticScot
I'm a little confused now.
If Britain leaves the EU, then EU member nations can or cannot negotiate separate trade deals with Britain without going through the EU?
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: ScepticScot
OK. So the countries can still buy or sell, just no tariffs or safety standards. So how would that create the food or medicine shortages Yellowhammer anticipates?
If Britain is currently buying wheat from Germany and aspirin from France at a certain price, they should be able to keep doing it. As the importer, it certainly wouldn't make sense for Britain to impose tariffs on these imported goods. If Germany and France are getting what they consider a fair price now, there should be no reason to raise the prices of these goods, or lower their safety standards.
Homelessness and housing problems reach crisis point in all EU countries – except Finland
A European housing body has warned that homelessness and exclusion from housing has reached crisis point in the majority of countries in the EU. European Union.
Feantsa, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless, has released its second report on housing exclusion in Europe, in conjunction with French housing charity Fondation Abbé Pierre. The report highlights “alarming evidence of rising homelessness” and calls for EU member states to put eliminating homelessness at the core of their social policy agendas.
The report says homelessness is rising in all European countries except Finland, and singles out cities such as London, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Vienna, Athens, Warsaw and Barcelona as places where the housing system is particularly under strain. In London, the number of families in temporary accommodation has increased by 50% since 2010, and in Copenhagen, youth homelessness has increased by 75% since 2009. Warsaw saw an increase of 37% of people sleeping rough or in emergency shelters since 2013, and one in 70 people in Athens are now homeless, most have become so since 2011.
The UK and the Netherlands are among those whose situation has worsened since the organisations’ first report in 2015, but almost all countries have serious flaws and problems in their housing systems.
For poor young people across Europe, the situation is becoming increasingly prevalent, with 65% in Germany, 78% in Denmark and 58% in the UK spending more than 40% of their disposable income on housing. The average in the EU is 48%.
originally posted by: Aldolas
a reply to: ManFromEurope
Someone posted in another thread that the UK is the 5th largest, on wiki it's the 4th.
The gist is: UK is not a tiny island in front of continental Europe. It is a large economy that needs to be reckoned with and should be respected and must respect itself.
It should leave Europe as the proud nation that it once used to be and become a good trading partner.
That is what the people voted for. And that is what must be done. This spineless crap is embarrassing
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Hilarious
Worst case scenario
Essentially this is like planing for a cat5 hurricane hitting Mew York
Not likely at all but possible
Spoiler: it’s horse poop
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Hilarious
Worst case scenario
Essentially this is like planing for a cat5 hurricane hitting Mew York
Not likely at all but possible
Spoiler: it’s horse poop
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
Hilarious
Worst case scenario
Essentially this is like planing for a cat5 hurricane hitting Mew York
Not likely at all but possible
Spoiler: it’s horse poop
Its actually the "base case"
The leaked document called it the "base case" yet now its been turned into "the worse case"
Makes me think that actually the gov are hiding something.
originally posted by: Joneselius
Worst case.
Why are so many people foaming at the mouth for Britain to fall? Even British people. The left are salivating over this, it's like a wet dream.
Britain will be fine, prosperous even. They're terrified of a prosperous Britain outside of the EU because leftists are global-headed idiots who think that more people = more equals.
Seriously ATS, Britain will be fine. We'll trade with you guys in the US, why not!
Come on you little Englanders, where's your spines.
originally posted by: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Its actually the "base case"
The leaked document called it the "base case" yet now its been turned into "the worse case"