The EU thrives...upon itself. If the UK and one or two other current members of the EU reach a point where they strongly disagree with the direction and mount a East-EU or European Alliance....then the value of the EU spirals within months.
What led to the EU having great value was the Euro, and the united currency. You walk into a German bank and do business....no matter what you are buying (Spanish car, Polish nail polish, French wine, German peanuts, etc)...you pay in one common currency. Everybody likes this idea, and you can’t find anyone in the business world that says much negative about the Euro except its value against the dollar.
Beyond the currency, it’s worthless. Last year, the EU tried to force down a rule that if you went to a restaurant and were using olive oil....it had to be in a standardized container that came only from the company manufacturing the olive oil. It was within a couple of months of enforcement before all heck broke loose with the olive oil industry saying this was totally unnecessary.
And Britain warns Barroso that without the EU he would be irrelevant.
> Barroso warns Britain it would be irrelevant outside EU
Better than being irrelevant in your own country.
Nonsense, Britain is the world’s 6th largest economy. Our influence in the EU is questionable anyway considering that we are always outnumbered in every key decision the EU ever takes.
Besides, the world is a much bigger place than Europe, which is a schlerotic and dying continent compared rising giants like Brazil and India.
Really? ??
Would you like to do have a do over of 1914 & 1939???
You know. In a contest for relevancy?
Y’all sucked at war without the English and Muricans....
Its pretty much zero now, so what do we have to lose?
Do NOT look behind that there curtain!!!!
DO NOT........................
What a joke. The UK never even went on the Euro. They have never really been in the Euro Union anyway. If they break away nobody but Barrasso will even notice.