Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:29PM (#18914776)

> The EU is a phenomenally novel way of integrating sovereign nation-states into a singular political entity, that happened without war.

Not just without war, but between nations that've been regularly at war with each other (in various iterations) for well over a thousand years.

It's a pretty remarkable achievement.

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by toosangiforthis on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:33PM (#18914814)

EU has achieved more than most political unions by solving Franco-German rivalries and establishing a common Coal and Steel market for both countries

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by gwbas1c on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:40PM (#18914920)

And some EU states still don't recognize each other. Just look at the 49.999 hz issue.

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by Rebelgecko on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:44PM (#18914978)

For those who are having trouble googling that term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535067

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by r3bl on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:08PM (#18915298)

What? Serbia is an EU candidate, not an EU member. It is an outsider to this.

Five EU members don't recognize Kosovo as independent, meaning that Kosovo can't even apply for the EU membership. Serbia's making small steps, but won't enter any time soon.

This was a European problem (as in, the continent) that had nothing to do with the EU specifically.

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by jerven on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:55PM (#18915114)

Neither Serbia nor Kosovo are EU member states. Serbia thinks Kosovo is not a country but a province/county of itself.

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