Thanks, Cronos.
Does Wales have the ability in resources, education, and most of all cultural tradition to become anything more than a dependency of the EU state?
Ireland has worked to become a tech hub with twice the population of Wales. Can the Welsh achieve this likewise with a smaller population and less educational achievement?
I don’t know enough about Wales to give you a complete answer.
The EU technically doesn’t have any dependency states - not even Bulgaria. They won’t take a failed state.
Wales does have the ability in cultural tradition and education to be a full member of the British union or the European union.
But it does not want to leave England today - and if it ever does, that will be 5 + years in the future.
Wales can be like Ireland — Estonia is less than HALF the population of Wales (1.3 million to the Welsh 3 million) and punches above its weight ($26 billion) while Welsh GDP is $80 billion.
So Estonia’s GDP/capita is $20K and Wales’ is $26K
England’s GDP per capita is much higher at $41K