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If the Euro is in such a state and on the verge of collapse, why would any country want to be a part of it? heh

It's hardly a shining beacon of how to unite countries into a single union, if anything, it's a prime example of what NOT to do.

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Exactly.:tu:

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Strange, then, how according to the IMF, we have the third highest GDP in Europe, and the sixth highest in the world.

Perhaps, like an ant, we can carry many times our own weight, and unlike the lion, we don't lie about sleeping all day....;)

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Yet the amount we're expected to contribute towards the EU doesn't reflect that..

The EU is fine for ease of trade but we do give up a lot to have that with as well as contributions our identity will suffer.

Personally I can see both France and Germany eventually veto'ing decisions in the future that will effect their own future especially if we withdraw more and more (even without leaving the EU)

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Well that's almost nothing for you eh? :)

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What are we producing?

manufacturing.

That GDP is going in one direction only.

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Fine ... Wake me up when they annexe Austria. If history repeats itself we'll still have time to get those aircraft carriers finished before it all really kicks off. At least then we'd have a use for both of them.

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Well it's going to be fun watching the Eurovision song contest next year, UK NIL points galour. :D

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This is fine, it's nearly as much of a joke as this farce.

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Just a thought we (the UK) are being accused of not collaborating but then the French have always collaborated with the Germans (don't mention the war!) :doh:

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The French didn't collaborate until the German invasion when they didn't really have much of a choice, although the Vichy government doesn't have a lot to be proud of.

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If the collective intelligence/control of 27 countries can't avoid problems like debt/corruption and other nastyness, then I can't see a reason why the EU should exist in the first place.

Perhaps, we as a species simply aren't intelligent, mature, or evolved enough to try unifying people in such a manner.

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.. and the difference now is ?

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The difference now is that France are willingly working with Germany and are key allies, that this isn't a occupation, and that this isn't Nazi Germany. :rolleyes:

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But beside those piffling little differences.....;)