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EU Specific Negatives

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  • mwpt
    mwpt Posts: 2,502 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »
    An idea for a thread perhaps;


    If we were an independent nation like Australia or Canada, with our own global trade deals, our own seat on all the world bodies, who would vote now to join the EU and do away with 'merely' a trade deal~?

    Feel free to start such a thread, I will contribute.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    cells wrote: »
    one specific positive of the EU for the whole world (except maybe russia/saudi/etc) is its push for efficiency.

    Thanks to the EU mandates on efficiency for a lot of things from light bulbs to hoovers to fridges to washers to cars the worlds gadgets are getting more and more efficient.

    This has helped the world a good deal in both lower costs to run appliances and also lower energy prices thanks to lower demand than otherwise would have been.

    The same can be said about solar and Wind power which was kick started in the EU. If they become cost competitive the world will have the EU to thank for bringing them about a generation sooner than they otherwise would have done.

    and there I was under the impression that industrialisation with all the associated huge efficiency improvements were progressing well before 1955.
    I must reread my history books to see the EU official history of the world starting from 1955.
  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,466 Forumite
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    Norway isn't in the EU..............
  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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    Article says something about the eu

    Damn migrants
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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    This is a european council thing apparently. Separate from the eu. Its all so confusing.

    Im not sure what we're voting to leave
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Nothing really to do with the EU but due to Norway (like us) adopted the Human Rights acts as their own law.

    Another good reason to repel them the HR act
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