Friends, Friends with benefits, roommates
full friendsUpdated
Oh my god they were roommates
Friends -> Fwb -> Friends doesn’t make any sense. Obviously the EU is a polycule
And the UK is that awkward member that left the polycule but still lives in the house
EU had many levels of association since a long time. Trade, Currency, Freedom of Movement were the main features you could agree to or not. And UK, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, and the candidate countries used that for good measure.
Freedom of movement comes in package with trade. That part annoyed the Brits.
It didn’t when it meant freedom of movement for them. They wanted all the benefits of the EU only for themselves.
uk’s gonna be a tier 6, I can feel it
I think that EU is not seen as an end-all solution for the problems of perspective members. Maybe watered down membership can provide the pull. But the union certainly lost some of the steam post 2008.
Take Serbia vs Bulgaria. It’s been 20 years since they became members. They are a bit more developed but not by a margin that would make Serbs super motivated to join.
Take Serbia vs Bulgaria. It’s been 20 years since they became members.
GDP per capita is $20,000 for Bulgaria vs $15,000 for Serbia both of which were at a bit above $6,000 when Bulgaria joined in 2007. That was after being pretty much at the same level for the decade earlier.
Also yes the Union did not expand at the same rate as before 2008. The eastern extensions were absolutely massive. At the same time there has been very significant movement since. Like the Euro was adopted by Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Croatia since then. It is down to six members not having the Euro. There are plenty of other laws which have passed since, which are often massive.
You shouldn’t compare that in Us $.
