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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris
I wondered whether someone would post this. I nearly did yesterday but couldn’t be bothered in the end. 
The EU is not a nation state. It can send its representatives wherever it wants and if other countries, for their own reasons, want to grant their mission staff full diplomatic privileges that’s their business. However, we’re not obliged to do so. I see no reason why we should be giving Eurocrats carte blanche to ignore their parking tickets. They can pay up like the rest of us.
Unless of course the EU is actually a federal state in which case it can have the diplomatic status and France, Germany and the rest can surrender it... |
Or...
We could just behave like 142 other countries (including the USA).
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The British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.
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EU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the "privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961".
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