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Enlargement seen as EU's best reply to Russian aggression (euobserver.com)

submitted 2 years ago by sv1sjp@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Ukraine, United Kingdom, Norway, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Belarus (once the idiot is dead), Russia (once the idiot is dead)

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ukraine: would be nice but it'd break the current farming subsidies program
United Kingdom: just a matter of time
Norway (and might I add Iceland and Switzerland): I'd love nothing more than this but we both know they won't for different political reasons. Never gonna happen under the current treaties.
Serbia, Belarus, Russia: fuck no
everyone else: as soon as they respect the Copenhagen criteria, sure

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think you underestimated the bloody minded xenophobic national pride that dragged the UK out of the EU. It will be a long time before the political will to even try and rejoin emerges. Even then I suspect it will be hesistent as there's no way the EU will give us the same deal we had last time.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe I do. But I've already seen polls that appeared to be favouring (albeit marginally) the UK rejoining the EU. And this is only after a handful of years.

Please don't take it as an offense, that's not how I mean it, but I think Brexit showed that the UK needed the EU more than the EU needed the UK, so I expect those numbers to grow even further as the people realize it.

[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

48% of us realised at the time :(

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