Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ...
by lmm on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:19PM
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That's how it was presented to the British public though. "Oh, the EU wants us to do this, our hands are tied, we can't do anything". No system with a smidgeon of accountability to the British public would ever have kept disgraced former disgraced former MP Peter Mandelson in a position of power.
Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ...
by ttepasse on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:50AM
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Mandelson was nominated by the Government of the United Kingdom to be EU Commissioner, as part of the first Barroso Commission. Presumably the nominating HM Government is not accountable to the British Public.
EU is not some Belgian club you subscribe to, Brussels is just a location for meeting with your partners. People who make the EU laws were British, among others.
EU is useful when you want to have interoperability and resolve conflicts before they happen.
So essentially, if you like to have flying cars that can travel across all the Europe, your people posted in Brussels come to agreement with the others on the flux capacitor fuel types and pass an EU law. Then your people at home pass a domestic law that follows the EU law and you end up with standardized flux capacitor fuels.
As a result being in EU gives you the say on what suits you so the EU law be designed that way. When out of the EU, EU does it’s own thing and if you like to sell flying cars to EU, you need to comply to their flux capacitor requirements anyway(AKA Brussels effect). That’s why Brexit made trade with EU so bureaucratic.