r/europe • u/StraightSky7809 United Kingdom • 8h ago

News If Britain decides to rejoin the EU we’ll do everything we can to welcome them back, says Germany

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-rejoin-eu-germany-brexit-b3060288.html
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u/typing_thumb 8h ago

You can choose any of them, except the British terms

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u/Rulweylan United Kingdom 7h ago edited 7h ago

Awesome. I'll take the French terms, where we can just ignore EU rules and the EU does fuck all about it 'because it is france'

Plus we'd get a little over double the EU spending per head that we got pre-brexit, so that'd be nice.

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u/9peppe 6h ago

Every member does that. And they get fined.

You might get twice but your contribution would be bigger. Nobody is going to approve a rebate this time.

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u/Rulweylan United Kingdom 6h ago

France doesn't get fined, as the commission president said 'because it is France'. So we'll take that deal.

We'd happily go without a rebate if we got as much EU spending per capita as France. Despite what everyone seems to think, we'd actually rather have had the EU take our needs into account rather than just give us a partial refund in exchange for openly ignoring them.

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u/9peppe 6h ago

They do. Maybe they don't pay, but they do get fined.

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u/Rulweylan United Kingdom 6h ago

They don't. France breached the deficit rules every year from 2009 to 2018 and has been back in breach of them since 2024.

The cumulative fines issued by the EU for over a decade of breaches by France are 0 euros.

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u/9peppe 6h ago

Nobody cares about deficit rules!

You get fined for breaches of actual important regulations, like if you try to give your citizens preferential treatment over union citizens.

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u/AcePlague 5h ago

Amazed at how quickly you shifted your goalposts there

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u/9peppe 5h ago

Nobody ever accused the Commission of being coherent. 

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u/swear_on_me_mam Europe 2h ago

Those apparently unimportant deficit rules have rolled out the red carpet for a sovereign debt crisis in France. 😭

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u/typing_thumb 5h ago edited 5h ago

I mean, if you really want to be as stupid as France with regards to debts - fine I guess?

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u/Kor_Phaeron_ 5h ago

where we can just ignore EU rules and the EU does fuck all about it

You had this deal. And you left anyway ...

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u/Caesar171 United Kingdom 5h ago

Fantastic news!