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Originally Posted by jaxie
Why, what's so great about it?
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Let me summise:
- Access to the single market
- 43 years of peace
- ERASMUS+ opportunities for students to live and work abroad
- Action on climate change with investment in renewable energies
- European Medicine Agency
- Clean air quality
- International Academic Collaboration
- European Arrest Warrant
- European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
- EU Export Market (54% of UK goods and 40% of UK services)
- Equal Pay Laws
- Clean Beaches
- The Customs Union
- Cheaper Air Travel
- Fisheries Funding
- Consumer Rights Protection
- Animal Rights Protection
- Infrastructure Funding
- Protected Status for UK foods
- Research Funding
- Biodiversity Strategy
- Cheaper and easier holidays
If you wish for me to elaborate and extend on any points I can.
All or most of this will go. The only way to save at least half of this will be if Theresa May negotiates a good deal (unlikely) or if we have a second ref and the deal gets trashed and renegotiated democratically.
Also I forgot to add EURATOM.
Not all of the EU is bad.