Posted on 06/29/2016 12:06:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
European Union leaders drew a stark line along the British Channel on Wednesday, telling the U.K. that it cannot keep valuable business links with its former continental partners in a seamless single EU market, if it doesn’t also accept European workers.
The challenge cuts to the heart of the British vote to leave the bloc following a virulent campaign where migration from poorer EU countries was a key concern. It also sets the scene for the complex departure negotiations facing departing Prime Minister David Cameron’s successor, for which nominations opened in London Wednesday.
Meeting for the first time without the U.K., the 27 other EU nations set out a united strategy to face the next British government which will seek to salvage as many of the EU rights as possible while reneging on a maximum amount of obligations.
They emerged from the summit insisting that the “four freedoms” central to European unity are indivisible: the free movement of people, services, goods and finances. …
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I still have to insist that none of the regulations are good. Centralized government has no business in such matters, especially one with no separation of powers; things will always go as they did in the USSR. When the USA started trying the same approach, things did start to go awry, particularly with CAFE standards (just for one example).
We have a Constitution consisting of 4 pages of principles of limited government. The EU has a Constitution that is HUNDREDS of pages long and amounts to a suicide pact.
They will now be free to re-implement the free trade policies with Australia, New Zealand and Canada that they were forced to give up when they joined the EU.
If the UK were to sign a free trade agreement with the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Singapore and Japan, while embargoing goods from EU countries, the EU would fall apart in no time at all.
That’s like saying a scorpion should stop being a scorpion.
And realistically several European countries will want to keep trading with uk too.
From these articles it is starting to sound like Brussels won’t ALLOW separate trade deals. One of the Aussie Freepers mentioned that Britain was required to give up its trade agreements with Commonwealth countries like Australia when it joined the EU. Australia could only trade with Britain on the EU’s terms.
Perhaps. I tend to think that trade is rather like a very powerful force of its own (the drive for profit bring what it is) so that no amount of dictats from Brussels or Berlin will be able to prevent it.
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