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Originally Posted by Wildman
So we hold it, even though we're in the EU? What's your point?
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We are a world power; much of Europe is not.
(We have held that seat from before we joined the EU of course).
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Originally Posted by Walkabout
However, we do carry wide ranging influence that will certainly impact on how we can negotiate for anything in the future:
The Council of Europe for instance.
47 Member States
+ the OECD
+ the OSCE
To name a few more international bodies. |
Diplomacy rules, in a sound bite.
However, the EU has aspirations to undertake its' own full-blown version of diplomacy backed up with a standing defence force and all the other accoutrements of a single nation state joined in ever-closer-Union.
Still, Lord Dannatt along with various other retirees from the UK military says it is all OK, so it must be so.
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Dave
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