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Old 04-15-2019, 03:17 AM  
Paul Markham
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The main reason for me not to like the EU is the loss of sovereignty of 27 nations to a Centralist government in Brussels. Which so far isn't covered in glory.

A lot of the examples Stefan gave have been done by non-EU countries and could be done by independent EU nations. All the EU is, is a Trade Agreement which we had with the Common Market. And even that was more binding than other countries trade agreements by not allowing other trade deals by independent nations. Imagine other countries agreeing to terms like that.

The point of this thread is to pull back from the march towards centralist power and if a coalition of anti-EU parties is needed to do that then lot it happen. After all if the people of Europe don't want to be ruled by incompetent centralist politicians trying to make laws that fix countries as far apart as Germany and Greece, Sweden and Malta, Poland and UK. Then that's democracy.

https://openeurope.org.uk/intelligen...u-regulations/

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4053/eu-regulations
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