Brexit - Revisited

The Eurointelligence Podcast

Wolfgang Munchau

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🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode we are talking about Brexit, immigration and whether a return to the EU is possible under a Labour government.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me, Azizanne Muncheng and Jack Smith.
0:07.1	Today we want to talk about the UK-EU relationship once again and the question whether this
0:15.2	relationship will or should change in the next few years given Britain's alienation with its own
0:20.2	arrangement with the EU and a recorded shift in public opinion. years, given Britain's alienation with its own arrangement with the EU
0:21.6	and a recorded shift in public opinion. Jack, what do you think is going to happen? Is the EU,
0:26.8	is the UK going to not return to EU membership? That's probably a bit early to speculate,
0:31.6	but how do you see the momentum? Yeah, so the first thing to address on rejoining itself, and I want to be really clear about
0:39.3	rejoining especially, is that it's not just the UK's decision, it's the EU's decision.
0:44.1	I think the major barrier there is, regardless of the shifts in public opinion that will take
0:48.5	place in the next decade, I very highly doubt we, the UK, would be able to rejoin the European
0:53.4	Union under anything
0:54.8	like the same terms we had previously.
0:56.6	Oh, no.
0:57.0	You know, there's absolutely no enthusiasm in the EU for a half-and-half-out country like the
1:01.3	UK was.
1:02.2	No, no, that wouldn't be the case.
1:04.0	I mean, I think that that's right.
1:05.4	The various opt-outs the UK blackmailed the EU into over the decades.
1:11.5	They're not going to be, including the opt-out of the euro.
1:14.7	Now, the EU has been pragmatic on the euro, that it allowed member states not to join it.
1:20.4	Poland famously was allowed to join the EU, even though it didn't even change its constitution
1:25.7	to make euro membership possible.
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