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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by pinpeliponni on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:46PM (#14683764)
Why would EU care? As UK is not part of Europe anymore, they really have no reason to care about .io islands...
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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by awkwarddaturtle on Sunday July 02, 2017 @03:56PM (#14684055)
Because some EU countries also has a bunch of stolen islands/territory outside of europe.

France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, etc all have stolen territory all over the world.

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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by MistahKoala on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:48PM (#14683775)
> UK is not part of Europe anymore

This is news to the rest of the world.

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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by paulnechifor on Sunday July 02, 2017 @03:07PM (#14683859)
Europe and the EU are getting conflated more and more. It's kind of like how if someone said he's American, you wouldn't assume he's from Brazil, even though technically Brazilians are American since they're from the American continent or continents.
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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by MistahKoala on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:13PM (#14730928)
Whilst he's wrong from a geographical perspective, I assumed in good faith that he was talking about 'Europe', the political institution - which he'd still be wrong about. The UK is still part of the EU until it isn't.
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Re:Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN by addicted on Sunday July 02, 2017 @05:43PM (#14684523)
In a political conversation the geographic meaning of Europe is usually significantly less useful than the political one. So this is not surprising at all.
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