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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2022-03-31 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] drplokta 2022-03-31 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The description of option 2 in that EU poll as “like Norway” is pretty wrong. Norway has free movement of people with the EU. Norway is in Schengen. Norway contributes (net) almost as much per capita to the EU as the UK did as a member. Norway doesn’t so much align its regulations with the EU as follow EU regulations in very many areas. Had the poll mentioned these things, I predict the responses would have been rather different.
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[personal profile] drplokta 2022-03-31 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
“Align with” has an implication that the EU would make some adjustment to its regulations to satisfy UK concerns, as well as vice versa.