Brexit?

[the_gardener]

I have been a supporter of "the European project" since at least my late teens when (in parallel with my O Level history studies of Europe between the Napoleonic and the Great Wars) I first encountered Robert Schuman's and Jean Monnet's proposals for a United States of Europe -- so I naturally voted in favour of the UK remaining a member of the

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[voidampersand]

I'm an American and my work has to comply with EU regulations, because we make products that we sell in the EU. I'm not complaining. We finally removed all the hazardous materials from our products because of EU regulations. If Britain exits the EU, they will still have to comply with all the EU regulations, they just will give up the right to vote on them.

Maybe instead of exiting, Britain should ask for a special preferential deal, like where they get to be a full member of the EU but they can keep their own currency. Oh wait.

[watervole]

I will vote to stay because of the better environmental legislation.

Eurosceptic or eurosceptic?

[finopalomino]

The currency issue hasn't gone away, though it is temporarily eclipsed by the refugee crisis, the human rights issues in Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and now Austria, the terrorist attacks, and the general febrility of whiggish politics everywhere. Meanwhile climate issues mean that investors everywhere are holding their breath and waiting for the paradigm shift. Maybe this summer in the US.

What makes the currency issue particularly sticky is that no-one identifies the sub-issues. Nobody speaks for the European project when "common sense" - i.e. prejudice - gets a full run. Nobody slaps Cameron or Osborne down when they turn their faces against a Euro-area development fund, or a two-track Europe.