How Brexit Made the EU More Popular
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- A look at the problems of Brexit made European countries pull back from movements to leave the EU.
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they should teach in schools to understand populism lies and how to deal with it
There were some idiots here in The Netherlands who wanted an Nexit. After the beautiful example of brexit, they all dissapeared😂😂
In Dexit Denmark too
There were huge benefits for the UK. One of the biggest is that wine producers can make *pint bottles of wine* , instead of the 750ml that the rest of the world uses (as it is probably a French invention).
The downside is that you get less wine for the money, as I guess, they will be priced similarly. And during my visit to the UK a month ago, I wasn't able to find any in the shops, as they are very rare.
@todortodorov6056 And don't forget that now the Brits finally can drive on the left side of the road!
Hmm, wait - They could do that even before, in spite of the ever meddling Bruxelles bureaucratic elites... 🤔
@@Sonmi-451 True. I also forgot that they are now allowed to have as much sex as they want without having to negotiate sex quotas with Bruxelles. Freedom!
@@todortodorov6056wine should be 1 litre not 750cl. As for pint bottles of wine will not catch on and then we would have to go out and buy new wine racks that’s daft. Now after brexshit we are flooded either useless Australian eines
Not exactly saved the EU but certainly bolstered it and gave it at least one very important possible financial advantage. A few years before Brexit some EU countries had been complaining that the UK, a non-euro country, was the main centre for euro based financial transactions like euro clearing and derivatives. The European Court of Justice rejected the complaints saying that prohibiting euro transaction trading in the UK would be a discriminatory action against an EU member country. After Brexit that caveat no longer exists and slowly but surely the migration of euro based transactions to European financial centres has begun and will continue. In fact, EuroNext, which manages many of the Stock Exchanges in Europe and is merged with the NYSE, is beefing up its existing transactional platforms and implementing new ones in centres like Milan. The EU seems not to be particularly interested in having a central financial hub and prepared to sacrifice the relative economies of scale that entails in order to spread the benefits among member countries .
The EU is a dead man walking.
The English always think they can beat their own chests for something they had nothing to do with .
@@jcvastgoed1490 What on earth are you talking about? The UK decided, by electoral majority, not to be part of your giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam. That's all.
I would say, this is another tangible Brexit benefit for the EU, keep them coming
Pretty sure London has just reclaimed second place as the world's second richest financial centre in the world, imagine if our politicians fully backed brexit, we would be the financially leader of the whole world, and as far as growth take a look around europe, and maybe look at all the countries voting for more EU skeptic parties , glad to be out and staying out, happy to deal with Europe, just not the corrupt eu
Yep, a few idiots in the Netherlands still want's to leave the EU but that's it.
Same goes for Sweden. Even the ultra reds and far rights have taken it off their political agenda. People are simply not that dumb.
Gekke Gerrit en zijn inteelt broeren?
I think we should get rid of the EU commission. And going back to EEC.
@@om-qz7kp Why, we don't have a problem with the EU.
@@om-qz7kp why would you want us to return to something we have moved away from? What was better back then?
We cannot thank the Brexiteers enough! Thanks to you guys I don’t take the EU for granted anymore. I enjoy the freedom of movement over 4,200,000 square km, which is bigger than India btw. And next time I cross the Channel, I still can roam for free! Because the EU cares for its citizens.
Greetings from Belgium, EU
You do realize that UK was never in Schengen so the freedom of movement in that regard was limited? It is easier to cross the border with Norway (which is in Schengen, but no EU) than it was with UK even when it was in EU.
@@user-cd1di5mo4c Neither is Ireland! Freedom of movement is a core principle of the European Union. It allows EU citizens to travel, work, and live in any other EU member state without needing special permits.
The Schengen Area, established by the Schengen Agreement, builds on this freedom. It removes internal border controls between member states. This means EU citizens can travel throughout the Schengen Area without passport checks. As an EU citizen, I have the right to travel, live and work in Ireland thanks to the freedom of movement principle. There are some minimal requirements, but the process is generally straightforward for EU citizens.I don’t see the point you’re trying to make.
@@user-cd1di5mo4c He didn't say "roam freely"- He said roam for free, i.e. he's talking about cell phone charges not freedom of movement.
Thank God we got out before you all started voting far-right. Don't worry, we'll bail you out yet again after the French/Germans/Dutch annex you, yet again. That's if the Russians don't get there first. 🤣
Not having laws made by a Court that bans its judges from writing dissents v paying mobile phone roaming charges..🤔
I think many in the UK are learning the hard way that, a) the British Empire is really , really over now b) the UK is a big European country, but only a mid sized global player. To compete on the global stage, you have to be close with your neighbors c) much of the UK media is polemic in nature, and their habit of blaming Brussels for everything came with a very big price. The average Brit's understanding of the EU and its purpose is ridiculously poor.
What a load of cobblers!
@@SJG-nr8uj How so?
@@SJG-nr8uj Detail inexistent but big on hyperbole. You should go into UK politics that's been very successful there. 😀😀
@@maxharbig1167 And here comes the detail.
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS (ie. to make one big country)
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). "The European Union and all leaders of all European nations MUST USE IMMIGRATION to undermine the homogeneity and ethnic identity of the native European people no matter how difficult this will be to explain to the citizens of their nations. This must happen, THIS WILL HAPPEN for globalism to take hold of Europe" - Peter Sutherland speaking in the House of Lords in 2014.
If you wish to argue against any of this, you will need to argue with your beloved megalomaniacs in the European Union. I merely report what they say. So .... off you go.
@perjensen3047 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS (ie. to make one big country)
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). "The European Union and all leaders of all European nations MUST USE IMMIGRATION to undermine the homogeneity and ethnic identity of the native European people no matter how difficult this will be to explain to the citizens of their nations. This must happen, THIS WILL HAPPEN for globalism to take hold of Europe" - Peter Sutherland speaking in the House of Lords in 2014.
The UK decided, by democratic electoral majority, not to be part of your giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
The (political ) UK was never a decent member of the EU... loud, entitled and arrogant.
I love brits but hate its politics and medieval structure.
You won't be missed unfortunately.
Yeah, watching their parliament screaming and throwing mud at each other might be very entertaining, but not very usefull. I'm glad our Danish parliament uses the time for dialogues, discussions and negotiations without shouting
@@gallus3491 you're right, it doesn't make good TV but it makes for better policies.
Denmark's exit was never even a remote possibility. Sure, Danes are champions of free markets, just like the Brits, but that never lead them to conclude that one should leave the biggest and most successful free market zone in the world. Unless one's logic is under the heavy influence of campaign money from both The City and Moscow, this line of reasoning appears mildly flawed. But the promise of £350 million per week to the broken NHS was too good to let go I assume. People should walk up to Westminster and demand to get that money now or insist on a new referendum. Those are the rules of democracy.
My country the Netherlands are the champions of the free market. You're a close second. You do other things better than us though. Healthcare and education for instance. Not free in my country. You got the dieet pills, we got ASLM. Probably the most complicated microchip trade chain and machine of the world. It even keeps Taiwan safe. We could crush the whole US tech industry with some afford. Also the second biggest agricultural exporter of the world in terms of money in a tiny country. More than China and Russia, which are huge. Love the Danes though.
*We invented the stock market and don't have Greenland. Biggest port and third biggest airport of the EU. That's why i say my country is the champion.
Bullsh*t, from start to finish!
There is no bigger free market then being in the EU.
Go anywhere u like and work and live there - if that is not great, what is 🤔
Free Trade for one single country is not much if you can do that with 26 other COUNTRIES. You can never get these great Trade Deals alone, you just don't have that Power.
@@francodenobili7654 The UK has preserved, and in fact restored, sovereign independence and representative democracy. That saves us having to fight a war to win them back. The 27 member states are about to lose both.
not in the UK - once a referendum - it counts forever ...... even if hell freezes ...
Having lived in London for four years I had no doubts brexit would happen..
The average brit thought European Union revolved around London 🙄..never heard once a positive benefit of being in Union…
European Union better without Britain as they were unhappy in it..💁🇮🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
I would say GB saved Europe. Firstly, Brexit allowed Europe to get rid of it's worst troublemaker. Secondly, the rapid British economic decline due to Brexit gave other European conservative/populist governments the scare of their lives and further discussions over "x"-exits stopped.
Thank you, Great Britain!
What “rapid economic decline”!? 🤷🏻♂️
@@newblackdog7827 the one that the rest of the world sees, but brits keep denying by misinterpreting some statistics at some specific points in time.
@@ab-ym3bfdo you live in the UK?
@@ab-ym3bf
What statistics have been “misrepresented”!?
@@ab-ym3bf OK, quote the relevant statistics re comparable Western EU economies and I'll be delighted to look at them, as (let's face the real facts) over 90% of what pro-EU voices both in and out of the UK and the EU, typically is at best grossly exaggerated and otherwise ranges from utterly unevidenced through to palpably absurd and born merely of fanaticism.🙄🙄🙄..which unfortunately applies to much of this vid too.
You have a problem. Your view of the EU prior to the referendum is based on the views expressed by the British media.
I was transferred to The Netherlands in 1978. I hadn't intended staying but I did because even in 1978 the view of the EEC portrayed by the British media was jaundiced, and I found that everything was better in the EEC than I had been led to believe.
Over the years I watched the British media present a more and more ridiculous view of the EEC/EU. By the early naughties I told a friend in the UK, who I met in my first year at Uni, that it was inevitable that the UK would leave the EU. My reasoning was simple; who would want to be a member of the EU as it was presented by the British media? He didn't believe me.
After the referendum I sent him a copy of my prediction made more than ten years earlier. He just had not been aware of the huge difference between the reality in the EU and the fantasies portrayed by the British media.
Even today you still believe that the British media was telling you the way it was back then.
I still live in the EU. I watch as people like you struggle to understand why leaving the EU has gone so badly. Until you accept that you were lied to by the British media, you will never be able to understand why it went so wrong. It was inevitable, but that inevitability is only visible to those who were not blindfolded by the linguistic shackles of the English language.
Now please tell us what you know about EU fiscal union, EU economic union, EU political union, the unification of member states’ armed forces under command of the European Council, the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, and the unfettered migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East, at the EU’s open invitation. It shouldn’t take you long!
The British 🇬🇧 press was telling the truth; it was mainstream media in mainland Europe brainwashing you and painting an unrealistically rosy picture of the EU!
@@SJG-nr8uj The EU does not "expand" .Countries apply for membership. AS for the rest of your garbage if you're not a Russian BOT, you're a "fellow traveller". or perhaps just "a usefull idiot"-
I’m Polish, and I can tell you one thing: joining the EU was the single best thing that happened to my country in the past 100 years. What saddens me is all the anti-EU propaganda that the previous Polish government has spread. I see more and more people saying that they’re unhappy about the EU, yet the same people are unable to justify it.
@@SJG-nr8uj This illustrates why you are so bluntly stupid.
North Africa is poor, Europe is rich, they will cross the sea whether Europe wants it or not. EU or no EU, people will try to get a little better life, even at risk of dying.
The only way it can be reduced is making North Africa a better place to stay.
The Irish border problem was not 'unexpected' to anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with the facts
Oh, it's facts you want, is it? Please tell us what you know about EU fiscal union, EU economic union, EU political union, the unification of member states’ armed forces under command of the European Council, the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, and the unfettered migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East, at the EU’s open invitation. It shouldn’t take you long!
@@SJG-nr8ujRather a lot actually. Your choice of highlighted subjects and language used, coming from a very new YT account, is rather revealing.
@@SJG-nr8uj
Hello comrade 👋
@@nickharvey7233 I'm not sure you do, but the EU is happy to provide the following information:
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS (ie. to make one big country)
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon
Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). "The European Union and all leaders of all European nations MUST USE IMMIGRATION to undermine the homogeneity and ethnic identity of the native European people no matter how difficult this will be to explain to the citizens of their nations. This must happen, THIS WILL HAPPEN for globalism to take hold of Europe" - Peter Sutherland speaking in the House of Lords in 2014.
All this, except the last one (which they didn't want you or anyone in Europe to know about), is set down in black and white in the EU's own freely available information, 100% accurate and verifiable.
@@Jcolbert123 The EU is happy to provide you with the following information:
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS (ie. to make one big country)
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). "The European Union and all leaders of all European nations MUST USE IMMIGRATION to undermine the homogeneity and ethnic identity of the native European people no matter how difficult this will be to explain to the citizens of their nations. This must happen, THIS WILL HAPPEN for globalism to take hold of Europe" - Peter Sutherland speaking in the House of Lords in 2014.
The UK decided, by democratic electoral majority, not to be part of your giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
Great Britain always had a parasitic relationship with the colonies of it's former empire. The Commonwealth as Empire V.2 didn't really work for the UK's economy in the same way. Joining the EU meant that in return for certain economic advantages, Britain was now bound by a regulatory framework originating in Brussels.
"Freedom" from the EU will most likely lead to the growing economic and political marginalization of what is essentially a small island in the North Atlantic.
Spot on !
LITTLE BRITAIN under Thatcher had to beg to be admitted after she and her ruthless upper class conservatives destroyed LITTLE BRITAIN in the 70's and early 80' s. They had only the dirt in their window cracks to chew on. Sadly France after 2 vetoes caved in and let LITTLE BRITAIN in - and they caused headaches and lies and insults ever since. Good RIDDANCE LITTLE BRITAIN
It seems what you say is obvious to everyone except the British. I mean who thinks that an Empire, any Empire, is created for philanthropy? Well the Brits seem to think that.
Well said. Many British folk deny this, but the imperial mindset is still a thing among older, lesser educated ppl. While the British Empire itself has been dead and buried for decades, one key aspect of Empire remains. That's money laundering, which began in early 60s, as the Empire collapsed, and the finance industry needed a new franchise. They found it in money laundering. Russian oligarchs, African dictators and other global criminals loved to stash their gains in The London Laundromat. The EU introduced new rules in 2022 which seriously threatened this lucrative business, hence the initial motives to leave. Of course, they couldn't mount a public referendum on , " Save Jobs In Money Laundering!!!". That would never work. So, the emotive, nationalistic ideas were used to great effect. Sad for British ppl. Great for other European countries though, especially IRL, Netherlands, Ger, Portugal, Fra, Spain and Poland.
1:56 - Ireland pays for students in the North of Ireland to participate in ERASMUS.
Another benefit of Brexit is that Irish reunification seems more likely.
@@robertarisz8464 And Scottish independence...
Sentimental price to be paid.
Especially the closest allied, the US, won't even sign a Trade Agreement after Brexit. That what a friend is for!
But if Trump becomes president, the UK will get a fantastic trade deal...But Britain will have to "bend over"...
The UK is a friend, but EU is also a friend. Best to go with the market.
It is true that sometimes when you have dumb ideas, all you need as a bigger fool that actually put them in practise so you learn from their experience. So, you see, there is a purpose for Brexiteers to exist! BTW, this is finally a tangible Brexit benefit
Brexit was expensive and painful.
Companies that were engaged in UK/EU trade had to adapt and those that couldnt went bankrupt.
New border infrastructure had to be build and payed for and additional customs officers had to be trained.
Years of negotiations took a lot of effort and even distracted the partaking diplomats (maybe so much that the russian invasion of Ukraine was made easier).
And we didnt even have a vote in it.
But now those costs have materialized and had to be paid and have been paid.
And we can look at the results and at the positive parts:
No more UK meddling in EU affairs - the constant nagging "we want more or we veto" is gone.
No more adamant opposition to EU security development (one wonders if the UK blocked that because of the amount of russian donations they received)
No more UK spying on their EU "partners" for the USA
No more continous demands for opt-outs (or we leave!)
No more non-euro country meddling in our currency (just look at what they - Lizz Truss - did to their own)
Finaly no more Farage in our EP - that alone is worth a lot.
Then we’re all happy! We aren’t missing EU at all!
Oh, and Sir Nigel Farage is now a British MP 😬🇬🇧👍🏻
@@newblackdog7827 Well 8th time lucky Nigel and good luck to Clacton. If he works as hard for them as he did when he was an MEP (Attended 1 Fisheries Commission Meeting out of 40 plus) his voters are in for a very rude awakening.
@@maxharbig1167
And? There was ZERO point in attending ANY EU committee. Everything was pre-decided. Out of 6m tonnes of seafood landed every year by EU boats, over 50%, 3m tonnes came from British waters, yet British fishermen had one of the smallest quotas in the EU. It’s another example of how British 🇬🇧 membership of the EU was a “great deal”! 😡
@@newblackdog7827 lucky you !!! so he can now lie in Westminster .... we colletc our popcorn and will watch the show !!! have fun !!!
@@newblackdog7827 seems that you never understood UKs fihery industrie...
an industrie that had too few boats and men to fish all the uK fish and hence SOLD their fishing rights to ...??? you might guess !!!
yes !!! the EU fishermen who paid for it ...
in addition you crazy people do not want to eat what you bring ashore !!!!
you like fish that is swimming in norwegian and islands waters !!!
and you were allowed to go in other sovereign nations waters to get it .....!! got it ??
you really do not yet understand anything ... good luck little britain !!
Whenever I am feeling bad about an idiotic decision I made I just remember that there are people who voted for Brexit thinking that it would make their lives better... Then I don't feel bad anymore
Brexit made clear that European countries have to cooperate in some form and way. You may not like the name, not like the people elected by others, you may not have it all your way, but we are on one continent and share not only land, sea and air, but also some fundamental ideas.
And yes! We all like New Zealand, but not to buy our salad or sell our strawberries.
We are on the same page, but not the same hemisphere...
The EU goal was more likely not to be harmed too much, than to demonstrate that leaving was a bad idea. The biggest problem during the negotiations certainly was that the UK always was clear on what it did not want, but never on what it actually wanted. (Not counting the idiocy of wishing for leaving but keeping all benefits)
Even with a Labour government, don't let them get in (for the 2nd time). They still don't understand that the EU is more than just only economics. Almost every vid (from the UK) on the subject wheter or not to rejoin is focused on ecomics. They neglect the deeper lying motives to come together (union fait la force). Especially now with Russia trying to exert its dominance in Eastern Europe & the Baltics once again. There is enough problems with certain EU countries & (political) parties on this issue. We don't need more liairs & quizlings. Remember there are enough Russian agents & stooges within the House of Commons and the House of Lords. London became a financial centre also with lots of illgotten money from Russia. And like mentioned earlier they have even bought their way into the legislative chambers of the UK.
The only goal & purpose of brexshit was to get rid of strict EU rules on the financial markets. A goal that was not only propagated by the tories (cons seems more appropriate to me) but also by most part of the UK media and establishment. The selfcentred English, who still didn't & don't come to terms with the downfall & loss of their pink empire, are now complaining about the results of brexshit. Most common is the argument that only 52% of the UK population voted to leave. What did the 48% do who wanted to remain? Can they really say they did their utmost to prevent brexshit or to educate the population? I know that some politicians did really try (John Major, Lord Hesseltine, Chris Bryant just to name a couple of them). But they were a few, what did the rest do? Also, sorry Scotland you couldn't get the deal N-I has. Saor Alba.
Lets not forget the verbal & physical attacks on foreigners in the wake of brexshit.
Lets not forget how the UK government had the nerve to treat EU negotiators like .....garbage, and stepped over every diplomatic conventions and keep insulting for domestic purposes.
Let's not forget how they consider themselves thus high & mighty, that they didn't even bother to prepare for the exit itself or the negotiations leading up to exit. (David Davis & companions without any papers in front of them.)
Let's also not forget how David Cameron whistling a happy tune after resigning his post.
Let's tell those brexshiters that
BREXIT MEANS BREXIT
(PM Theresa May)
or, when they can't stop whining
WELCOME TO THE BREXIT, SIR
(Dutch Custom officer on the 1st of January 2021).
EEC >>> EU
4:20 "unexpected" lol.
In 1788? Delegates from the 13 states meet to create a constitution which allows interstate commerce with no tariffs. Even back then intelligent businesses and leaders understood free movement of goods, services and people lead to a wealthier population.
Can’t be like the cat inside and outside at the same time asking to open the door but move out
Is taking back your grip on border control and political stance matters that much for the UK economy? I would challenge all those improvident and brazen statements made by UK leaders in 2016. EU funding and subsidies were trimmed and what is left is an unholy mess of a crumbling economy and wonky NHS. The EU definitely has insurmountable issues with immigration and economics but they are better off having a comprehensive collective solution to suit each member state's needs. Nothing is perfect but we should opt for the better. The UK has gone down hill because of choosing the worse scenario.
The irony here is that the UK's grip on border control weakened. I'm not saying immigration was the reason why people voted leave but if it was, it backfired badly.
The EU is a dead man walking.
@@tessjuel that's because before Brexit. the UK could just send people coming in from France, back to France.
now France (rightfully) ask why they should take them back, if you want something from another country you have to offer something in return.
it's one of the many things of being an EU member that the Brits voting for Brexit didn't have a clue about.
the lesson: don't (blindly) trust your politicians and media.
Maybe the British negotiators ran out of coke in the middle of negotiations and consequently brokered a terrible deal
Please tell us what you know about EU fiscal union, EU economic union, EU political union, the unification of member states’ armed forces under command of the European Council, the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, and the unfettered migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East, at the EU’s open invitation. It shouldn’t take you long!
@@SJG-nr8uj
EU Fiscal Union
The EU fiscal union refers to the coordination of fiscal policies among member states. This includes rules and regulations governing budgetary policies to ensure economic stability and growth within the union. The most significant aspect is the Stability and Growth Pact, which sets limits on budget deficits and public debt levels. The fiscal union aims to prevent excessive deficits and encourage responsible fiscal behavior, which is crucial for the stability of the Eurozone.
Positives:
Promotes financial stability across member states.
Prevents economic crises through coordinated fiscal policies.
Encourages fiscal discipline and responsible spending.
Challenges:
Sovereignty concerns as national governments cede some control over their fiscal policies.
Divergent economic conditions and needs among member states can make uniform policies difficult to implement.
EU Economic Union
The economic union in the EU is characterized by a single market that allows the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor. This integration fosters economic growth, increases competitiveness, and provides consumers with a wider variety of goods and services at lower prices. The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) further strengthens this integration by adopting a common currency, the Euro, among 20 of the member states.
Positives:
Enhances economic efficiency and growth through a larger, integrated market.
Facilitates trade and investment among member states.
Reduces transaction costs and currency exchange risks within the Eurozone.
Challenges:
Economic disparities between richer and poorer member states can lead to imbalances.
The common currency limits individual countries' ability to respond to local economic shocks.
EU Political Union
The political union involves the harmonization of political and legal systems across member states to ensure the smooth functioning of the EU. This includes shared institutions such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Council, which play crucial roles in decision-making and governance.
Positives:
Promotes democratic values and the rule of law across Europe.
Facilitates cooperation on common issues like climate change, security, and human rights.
Strengthens the global political influence of the EU.
Challenges:
Balancing national sovereignty with collective decision-making can be complex.
Diverse political cultures and priorities among member states require careful negotiation and compromise.
Unification of Armed Forces under the European Council
There are ongoing discussions about closer military cooperation and the potential unification of armed forces under the command of the European Council. This aims to enhance the EU's ability to respond to global security challenges independently.
Positives:
Enhances collective security and defense capabilities.
Reduces redundancy and increases efficiency in military spending.
Strengthens the EU's strategic autonomy and global defense role.
Challenges:
National sovereignty and differing military traditions pose integration challenges.
Requires significant political will and investment from member states.
Invitation of Member States Across Eastern Europe
The EU's enlargement policy has seen the invitation and accession of several Eastern European countries, promoting stability, democracy, and economic development in the region.
Positives:
Strengthens the EU by expanding its market and influence.
Promotes political and economic reforms in new member states.
Fosters peace and stability in Eastern Europe.
Challenges:
Integration of economies with varying levels of development can be complex.
Ensuring new members comply with EU standards and regulations.
Migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East
The EU faces significant migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East, driven by conflict, economic hardship, and persecution. Managing this migration is a complex issue with both positive aspects and challenges.
Positives:
Migrants contribute to the labor market and help address demographic challenges in aging EU societies.
Enhances cultural diversity and enriches the social fabric of member states.
Humanitarian response upholds EU values of solidarity and human rights.
Challenges:
Strain on social services and infrastructure in receiving countries.
Integration and social cohesion issues, including potential rise in xenophobia and cultural tensions.
Need for a coordinated and fair asylum policy across member states.
In summary, while the EU's efforts in fiscal, economic, and political integration, military cooperation, enlargement, and migration management present challenges, they also offer significant benefits. By fostering stability, growth, and cooperation, the EU continues to strive toward a more unified and prosperous Europe.
@@SJG-nr8uj EU fiscal, economic and political union ... you make it sound as if this would be something negative. Why so? The European armed forces ... I am fully in favor of that. Why wouldn't I be? The "reckless expansion" (as you chose to call it) into Eastern Europe .. if I recall it correctly, this was something the UK heavily promoted and was in favor of - even a drving force as it would open up new markets. "Unfettered migration", what's this got to do with the EU? Immigration is a national decision. Look at the UK - not a member of the EU and it has completely lost control over its immigration (both legal and illegal). Really not sure what your point is with any of this ...
That would only show how little they know about continental Europe.
Brussels isn´t that far away from the Dutch border, where they could have stocked up quite easily and without border checks had something to bring home as well.
If you say EU fast enough you get a siren
Speaking about cheese -> here in Hungary I buy english cheese in Lidl = good quality about 20% cheaper than the competition -> but what is good for me, it is not good for those english cheesemakers ... in the end I can live without cheese, but for the cheesemakers is their business and livelihood = so it is a sad story in the end ...
So your saying EU will somehow ban British cheese? You do know how vital the British export market is to the EU 2/3 biggest customer,you should be careful you will frighten German French and Italian car makers and wine producers without UK they are fked.
@@user-kv2rz3mw2byou just explained why brexit was moronic. Yes, it hurts everyone involved but the UK placed these sanctions on themselves even though we all have to deal with it. And while the rest of Europe still has easily accessible markets nearby, the UK has none. Everyone suffers, the UK just a lot more.
Who would want to be aligned with Great Britain?
I don't get that map at 4:20. Am Dane and lived in Ireland for a few years and would think that Wexford is in the Republic of Ireland and not a part of the United Kingdom.......
Nothing like a real life experiment. In politics, hard learning makes things easier.
Come on, Dingle & Wexford are NOT in the UK (see 4:25)!
The UK did a stupid thing.
Uk doesn't deserve to come back, deal with you choice.
We don’t want to come back into the EU.
And the fact is and I say it as a Brit and someone who voted leave that we as a country are frankly never satisfied.
We didn’t like it in the EU.
We rightly left.
Now we(Not me personally)say we don’t like life outside the EU…and some want to rejoin.
And if we rejoined(We won’t)with worse terms than before….we will once again be unhappy.
This country really needs to grow up.
Brexit Britain signed its own death sentence.
The EU is a dead man walking.
Utter bollocks!
@@newblackdog7827tell us what concrete benefits Brexit brought then?
@@abbofun9022 Record numbers of us going on holiday, Taylor Swift concerts full at 800 quid a pop 35000 English in Germany for the football,Glastonbury sold out yea we are going broke.
amen
This is true!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
In the meantime Brits want to come back! Very good!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Don't be ridiculous. The UK will not be part of your giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
Yeah right up to the time vander lion was so bloody corrupt too
There’s talk that the uk will soon be poorer than India but a lot if TH-cam comments about this are being removed
As a Norwegian, I would prefer if Norway joined the EU too. Europeans share a lot in common. We are stronger together.
Ha, now there definitely isn't anyone listening to Dexit-thoughts here in DK. Our multiple-system parties here made one far-right party use Farage in their campaign, but they got embarrassingly few votes. There was a blossoming of far right here some years ago, but they ate themselves up within exploding in 3 or 4 factions fighting each other. Long live our multiple party system in Denmark. They now don't have a say here. Am glad that the French formed a front against them, although it creates other challenges now. But when extremism threatens, shutting them down is more important than anything else.
Together You Mac Seperat You Brace
hey. we got more fish now
Why do some people want to get rid of EU so much? Isn’t that the main reason there hasn’t been major continental war in Europe since 1945
No
@@Franeeky so what’s the reason then,
@@EJH783 Don't even bother asking. They really don't know.
What? And you seriously think the EU is responsible for peace in Europe?
@@EJH783 The EU is just a club of states run by Germany. And mediocre countries are happy to join. Successful countries don't need the EU.
UK is a nice place to visit, museums, historical sites and buildings. Slightly odd habits, but in a charming way.
The UK today is to EU something that EU will be to China RSN.
Sadly, Greece started 6 day work week. Yuck
I still can’t get why commentators keep saying disastrous Brexit, the vast majority of people have just carried on, things have adapted some winners some losers. I miss the ability to travel freely around the EU on holiday and I feel for those Brits living in EU countries, but I don’t miss the massive closures of UK industry to move it to either cheaper labour and land areas or for cheaper tax rates or EU incentives with zero penalties and economic consequences to the UK. It’s a big world out there and while I miss many things about EU membership personally, I have pleased that the UK can go it’s own way and any decisions made by the UK government can be held to account by the people who directly elected them. The future is what we want to make it.
Has Marine Le Pen really given up on the idea of Frexit? She's toned down her extreme ideology to appear more benign and, therefore, electable. However, once the National Front is in power, their true colors will emerge. I'm not particularly optimistic about the future.
Yes, I think it's genuine, at least to some degree.
Try if you can to look at Brexit from a racist point of view. Yes, the immigration from continental Europe to the UK has dropped significantly because of Brexit. But the total number of immigrants has skyrocketted because the UK is no longer part of EU's coordinated immigration controls. To make matters worse (from a racist POW, remember) the immigrants they get now are even less desireable to them than the East/Central Europeans who used to come to England for a job.
Not all right-wing extremists are blithering idiots and many of them now realise that even though they are against EU in principle, they have to recognise it as the lesser of two evils.
Yes. No political party in France want a Frexit. Including the Le Pen’s RN
BTW it's National Rally not National Front which is/was a British Neo Fascist organisation. Euroscepticism in EU member countries is a whole different thing from going down the Brexit road and throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Not even Orban wants to leave and others like Meloni, Le Pen and Vox in Spain only want to have political leverage within the EU to change things they don't like one of which, in the case of countries with a Mediterranean coastline, is immigration. If you read and listen to the statements of these politicians in their own national media they are often very different from the interpretations extracted from them and published in UK MSM.
Yea Frexit has been quietly dropped now and for some time. She wants EU reform not to leave it
I'm sure deep down she would like that. Luckily french voters saw through her lies and blocked her from taking control. In the end, the benefits of the EU are obvious. Fascists can lie all they want but if people see the tangible benefits then it's very difficult. In the UK it was less of an uphill battle since the media never said a single positive word about the EU since joining it. Which is also why after the brexit for the most popular Google search in the UK was "what does the EU do?"
Change done in 2014 in the EU and pandemic saved the EU.
Even you sometimes say “in the UK” vs “in Europe” ^^ the UK is in Europe as much as Sicily, Ireland or Gotland but for some reason they think they’re not
Yes I always find it super weird when British people say "in Europe", as if they are not part of Europe
The EU has many flaws and I don't know what its future will be and whether the right decisions will be made, but one thing is certain that in the 21st century only large empires have a future and European civilization only has a chance as a whole to be a serious global player.
It’s not so much that people love the EU- it’s just the alternative is a lot worse. Trade barriers and difficulty trading with your neighbours and all that added expense are not a good thing in this situation
Guys, stay in the EU. Totally worth it. Look what happened to Britain. All my south Florida UK friends think it was a bad idea, even the ones that voted for it. Doesn’t matter to me though, I just want the best for GB. Much love from Fort Lauderdale, USA 🌴
LETS SEE WHAT THE FARR RIGHT GOT TO SAY FIRST
Britain had cheap access to many ressources and they needed it. BECAUSE THEY ARE A BARREN ROCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. And guess what: when you are depending on many imports, trade tariffs wouldn't be a good thing for you, would they?
WTF? Dingle and Wexford are in Ireland, not the United Kingdom. Wow, a simple mistake pisses off an entire nation, what an insult, saying we are part of the UK, what an abhorrent thought!
It's quite clear the EU is punishing England for fear of other nations leaving. Did anyone expect it to be easy? It will take 20/30 years before England gets it's sense independence and is able to negotiate a fair deal on trade with the EU. Current economic troubles are world wide and due to inflation of the US dollar.
In the future England will negotiate a favorable deal because punishing them in the long term is bad for business all around.
The economic outcome of Brexit was transparent. As to how people thought otherwise is bewildering. Yes, once an idiot country faces the fallout, everyone can see it and do the opposite
The French National Rally (Marine Le Pen) will NEVER get my vote as long as they won't display the EU flag next to the tricolore.
Brexit was a major benefit to RU countries. No UK competition. Movement of EU establishments out of the UK to EU countries. More funding to EU countries from EU coffers. What;s not to like by EU countries. Brexit now means to self-inflict a wound.
Why the men of your period had bigger and stronger facial features than today?
And Putin also...
23rd June 2016
Nationalist brit, did you vote Brexit because you didn't like Polish nurses? Tories have a surprise for ya 🤣
Load of nonsense!
Many Brexiteers didn't like Eastern Europeans especially those with low educacional attainment because they were competitors in the job market. The thing is that as of today there are staff shortages in many British industries like farming, hospitality, healthcare, etc. The uncollected taxes from those activities are collected via a higher tax burden. So now the same Brexiteers can wave the Union Jack and empty their pockets to the taxman and the erosion caused to gross incomes vía inflation.
The economy always adjusts in the medium to longer term. Welcome to the real world of Brexit. No more sun-lit uplands.😢😅😮
@@caballoloco100 oh yeah, absolutely. But as I always say, the son of that low class Pole will be indistinguishable from a native Brith while the post-brexit immigrant the government is still addicted to is much less compatible. And the government is bringing maaaaany more because, as you said and this channel has proven, the economy cannot run without imported cheap labour.
So I think the Brexit voters must be now begging for poles to come back. Oh the irony 😂
Tories are gone bot
@@joso7228 surprise surprise, labour also has a surprise for you. You're gonna get more weapons for Israel, more NHS waiting lists, no coming back to the EU, maybe war with Iran and for sure more anti-terror laws.
Mate, there's only one party. Grow up.
Britain GDP 2024 = to poorest State of Mississippi in Usa
Well, it's learning from bad example. Nothing too sophisticated.
Far right win in NL, France and Italy and now now wants to leave EU or Euro. Thanks UK
What? Well far right governments never do well economically and they get thrown out once that is clear😂
No, they don’t, they change their tune and rightly so,euroceptics are in the corner where they belong, all thanks to the uk😂
@@billpugh58 depends if you're completely far right, or just immigration far right.
in the media they don't make the distinction.
for example The Netherlands biggest party, the PVV is pretty right on immigration but also pro welfare system.
@@ChristiaanHW tbh, that is the hallmark of fascism. Far right on "foreigners" or any other declared mutual enemy, and rather left wing on the social front. I found that pretty strange when they taught and explained us that at school, and ever since don´t put much value towards "left/right" denominations.
Far right didn't win in France
Actually difficult to understand how the British are so unaware of their own country's interaction with and roots in the European continent. As if the modern British population and language was a population arriving from Mars. The language is a total mish-mash really recent language out of European languages.
Should they give back the borrowed words from French they would loose 30% of their vocabulary. 500 most used words daily are from Old Norse, -oh no, not only from the Vikings, but also from the time 500 years earlier when the Romans left a vacuum and Jutes arrived together with the Angles and Saxons from the continent. English is certainly not the original Celtic language..... English is a mix of the Continentals arriving. Get it, Brits. You blame that the Vikings attacked you, but you yourself attacked and plundered large parts of the world afterwards. Now you don't have that income. You are a little normal country. We might use English internationally instead of the earlier constructed efforts like Volapük and Esperanto, but an Empire you are not and you are now left to prove your value.
What this guy is arguing for but not stating is that without the supply of cheap labor from EU low wage countries to the UK living standards have dropped. I say he is weong
Funny!
We have the commonsealth dnoch is a good thing. We dont need thd left eing eu. Starmer should resoect the referemdum but hey we have a dictatirship. So wrong that onlyb20 per cent pf people voted..for him.but hes got a massive majority
Another brexit win :)
uhhhh no? another brexit failure..
Brexit was a vaccine. 🤣🤣🤣
With Brexit being such a success, it really makes you wonder why the Tories didn't make more of it during the election.🤣
Thanks, Brexiteers, for a quick lesson about how neighboring nations are a nation's natural trade markets. Now the US GOP has to win an election and remind the world why Hitler was a bad guy. Sadly, it's the second reminder. Let's hope people are awake this time.
.....and in France?
Last Sunday's ballot was our Brexit.. similar populist mechanisms...
I hope you europhiles enjoy your speed resstricters, and all the farming regulations imposed on you by your E8 !
Errrrr.....no the Pound:Euro exchange rate has NOT fallen "13%". It is almost exactly where it was. This is easily checkable.
it used to be 1:36 in 2016 and now it is trading at 1:18 so, dependent on how you define "exactly" you cloud make the argument that it is "exactly where it was" but most people would most likely not agree to that assessment.
@@perjensen3047 It was 1.22 on referendum day. It is today within one percentage point of where it was a week after the referendum. The Brexit message so far seems to be that Brexit didn't seem to make much difference either way. No "sunlit uplands" and no "fall off a cliff".
Popular! Who's the current rotating president? And who's he cosying up to?
How are Meloni and LePen going to get on with the EU going forward?
The EU isn't the cosy place it was in 2016.Its going to change, we're better off out of it. And we won't rejoin, that's a pipe dream.
And who are you
Mm, EU didnt get stronger after Brexit.. it would be stronger if UK still was a member!
However.. why didnt EU colapse when UK left.. its becuse brexiter overrated there importance in EU.. its rather this.. for EU, its more importante whats happen in China and USA.. and in Russia.. no more war in Europe!
Then to talk about bussines.. oh I lost my UK supplier becuse of Brexit, then I have to find another in EU.. and there is plenty of them!
And I think I understand how at least the English part of UK thought.. its to good to live in UK, population get fat and wealthy/lazy.. and the youth dont need to work for there benefits!
Times to change get the youth out in the fields to do agricultural work!
And to the food.. every brith hate this foreginer food, like "Fish and chips", Norweigan or Russian Cod or Havock, combined with Irish potatoes!
Real English comfort food is Kippers and Turnips.. get rid of those "international" food stores, its anti UK, like burger joints that serve Beef pattys, and Russet potatos grown in Ireland!
Make UK greath again, only serve sheap pattys in burger joints.. make it a law!
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Saved? Yeah right. Haha lets just pretend far right surge didnt happen last elections. 😂😂
What a liar, telling a remainer stance throughout.
What???😂😂😂😂😂
Brexit Referendum
Like a cup final between Celtic and Rangers but supercharged.
The build up to the Brexit vote throwing insults at each other.
Brexiteers cleaned up with whit and humour.
Excitement of election day like the cup final.
Brexiteers --- Celebrate that night when the result is announced
The following day nobody really cares.
Due to trade agreements and supply chains Brexit had never been a realistic option.
However the Brexit referendum had been an antiestablishment vote.
Personally I would describe Brexit as an almighty head rush and enjoyed every second of it.
Another Brexit Referendum?
Fantastic like a cup final the following year with the same teams.
More insults to throw at each other.
Enjoy the build up to election day.
Celebrate winning that night.
Again the following day nobody really cares.
The Brexit result did raise valid issues about an electorate who feel alienated by the political establishment and marginalised.
Also left wing lawyers making vast sums of money fighting deportation orders of convicted serious offenders remains a controversial issue.
Many other valid points raised during the Brexit referendum but the result itself had been on a parallel with wining a cup final.
Forget about Celtic Rangers rivalry Brexit eclipsed that for an almighty head rush.
Comments welcome
And now it's like listening to Jim Bowen saying look what you could have won. Enjoy your nostalgia, but it's yours, and real life goes on anyway.
Please tell us what you know about EU fiscal union, EU economic union, EU political union, the unification of member states’ armed forces under command of the European Council, the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, and the unfettered migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East, at the EU’s open invitation. It shouldn’t take you long!
Bullshit
As a Luxembourg citizen, I would like my country to leave. I know that won’t happen, but I mean EU didn’t increase in popularity among many people I know. I am myself an entrepreneur and also a member of Committees at European institutions. They are ineffective, too slow, too expensive and mainly populated by fat cats.
Granted no one else has left the EU.
Maybe no other country will leave.
Time will tell on that one.
But in the 4 years we the U.K. has been out of the EU no other country has joined yet…and certainly not one that is a net contributor.
And whoever joins the EU next will not contribute what the U.K. contributed.
In fact whoever joins next will probably be a net receiver.
The UK was bankrupt when it joined. The EU is about far more than money, but the greedy English will nver understand that. So glad you left. So gald we no longer have to deal with your lies. All you "contributed" was rudeness, arrogance and lies. You never even paid your fair share into the EU since the vile Thatcher started swinging her handbag.
Perfect display of the under educated level of British knowledge about the EU.
@@ab-ym3bf They lack education about everything. They are fed teaspoons of ignorance, arrogance and entitlement in their English "schools" that fail to teach them even just one foreign tongue for fear it might broaden their narrow Anglocentric horizon.
@@ab-ym3bf How dare you use that slur against the British people and on people like myself.
You prove when you use those slurs you have lost your argument.
At least people like me can offer a case be it a good or not so good case,and offer reason.
@@Robbiewa-bg4lu faux outrage due to lack of argumentation, confirming my earlier statement.
Brexiters have lost, not the uk, i have never wavered
Please tell us what you know about EU fiscal union, EU economic union, EU political union, the unification of member states’ armed forces under command of the European Council, the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, and the unfettered migration into the EU from North Africa and the Middle East, at the EU’s open invitation. It shouldn’t take you long!
Pretty sure the war in Ukrain was the reson.
Where ?
Hungary ?
Poland ?
Holland ?
🤣🤣🤣
The Tories were bad negotiators. I fear Labour will not be better as it has caved on illegal immigration. Building would have created more jobs & homes but becomes pointless as demand increases due to endless illegal migration. Thatcher sold our utilities to foreign companies & pay for infrastructure, increasing bills while they get rich. We need to take back our country on all levels, become truly independent & equalise tariffs & obstacles put in place by the EU. It is beyond belief we paid a huge sum to be penalised, restrict imports & build on our own manufacturing extending it in areas like microchips, fertilisers & other products in demand.
Mmmm.... no. Eu is not more popular😂😂😂
yes it is, don't lie XD
Finally, a Brexit benefit! I hope the EU forgive us for our arrogance and stupidity one day.
So Junker answered today that Great Britain can come back into the EU. A really nice gesture that has a lot to it.
Junker said it bluntly as a receipt from Great Britain for Farage and Co. as to what they can expect from the EU in the future, nothing for now. In 100-200 years it will say everything, Great Britain will stay out forever!
This should also be a reckoning for de Gaulle's statement at the time!
Labour has been the driving anti-EU force in Great Britain since the 1970s!
You can imagine what antipathy the politicians in the EU Parliament have towards Great Britain!
A really crass statement from the EU!
The EU is a dead man walking. It will be gone within the next few years.
Nigel Farage will NEVER be an MEP again. NEVER 👎
Brexit is over move on.
Reversed propaganda. On the contrary, quitting the EU is the way to go. The economy of the EU is collapsing. Also how could the population of the EU love the totalitarian or rather dictatorial rules of the WEF executed scrupulously by the EU Commission of Ursula von der Leyen ? It is obvious to me that the EU is destined to collapse.
Oh dear, another one from the asylum with access to a computer.
"it is obvious to me".
Says more about you than the EU, as proven by your nonsensical remarks before.
Brexit could have been great for the uk but bad politics made it one big mistake. We need a strong uk but now everyone is eating the uk cake there is no return to the eu even if the uk wants to come back.uk gona become weak.
“Brexit made the EU more popular”!? What, by everyone in the EU voting for anti EU parties in 2024! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Everyone" hardly. Are you the usual monolingual Brit who reads what the UK MSM tells him these people are saying or do you acess their statements in their own languages.? Le Pen, Meloni, Vox in Spain and even Orban don't want to leave the EU. They want the political leverage to influence and, if possible, make the changes they would like to EU rules and policies. None of them is about to set up trade barriers between their own countries and their biggest and nearest export markets. No country in its right mind would. Ooops sorry the UK did just that.😀😀
Because they aren’t anti EU anymore
The Brexiters dream since 1945😂 every year they celebrate the end of the EU and then “sad face” when it doesn’t happen😂
They are voting anti-immigration not anti Eu , they just want to include every buzzword
@@billpugh58
1945? The EEC didn’t even exist until the 1950’s! Couldn’t care less what happens to the EU, as long as the U.K. isn’t a member!
Utter nonsense.