Re:After ‘Brexit,’ Finding a New London for the Financial Wo...
by lucozade on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:44AM
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Indeed but they either entered the EU before the Euro and negotiated an opt out or they're in the process of adopting the Euro (albeit reluctantly in some cases).
From the EU's perspective, in order for them to go against the anti-separatists such as Spain, they'd need to have a big carrot. My guess is that full EU i.e. Euro, no opt outs and no rebate would be sufficient as it's fully in keeping with the "ever closer union" agenda. I can't see anything less being sufficiently beneficial to the EU to make the necessary compromises worth it.
Re:After ‘Brexit,’ Finding a New London for the Financial Wo...
by smcl on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:01AM
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The UK and Denmark have a fairly unique opt-out from the Euro. Everyone else who has joined the EU in the reasonably recent-term have pledged to join at some point in the future. Sweden is supposed to join but for some reason has managed to avoid it
Why? There are plenty of EU countries without the Euro..