Thread:JingRingFluffBall/@comment-26272757-20180303154617/@comment-26272757-20180303174310

Our discussion was that the Brexit was a good thing and that the Nexit should maybe follow. I said that it would be bad for the British economy and I still think it is disadvantageous, but my addition would be that England chose sovereignity and independence over all those stupid EU rules, so I understand the choice now. My personal opinion is that the Netherlands shouldn't leave the EU, but that the EU should be radically changed. It should be more of an economical collaboration and less of a political union. Some political things that are good if all members have the same policy should remain or should be created, like travel advice to dangerous countries (that's a good example, because in this case all countries should share their information and come up with a complete advice, now every country has a different travel advice) and protect the European borders against illegals. However, the EU was wrong commanding its members to take refugees and to force all the wealthy countries to pay the debts of the poor countries. Moreover, there are just opposite interests between countries, that's why the EU shouldn't always negotiate as a whole, and besides the euro is more and more seeming like a mistake, because it affects the southern economies very badly.

Great Britain never really had a good relationship within the EU. A year after they entered, there was the outbreak of an economical crisis. That said, if Britain and the EU can come up with a good plan to continue trade, it can even be for the better that they left. I also think that Britain can handle itself out of the EU better than the Netherlands, but I don't really have proof for that, because Switzerland is doing so well. Our prime minister wants the EU to be a looser union, and that's a step in the right direction, although I'm not expecting that he can change anything.

Furthermore, the EU just isn't democratic. We haven't chosen Juncker and those others. That's why they shouldn't be able to determine our politics so much.

I dunno, the last time we talked about this I just knew too little about it. It's easy to have the confidence that the EU is good and think that nothing should be changed, and be naive, but it's also too easy to think that the EU is bad and that everything should be changed. I think the truth is somewhere in between.