Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain
exactly countries that can offer us things back, these are main members, so to speak.
Now if you will excuse me, I have some French cheese to go and eat.
I will continue later.
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That is rubbish. Trade between nations is not done by a couple of politicians shaking hands and that's it.
You would simply add huge areas of burocracy to deal with so many different countries.
all you need to do is organise trade, not that difficult in the grand scheme of things, its just as part of the EU you are all under one warm sheet :)
I'm not sure what you mean.
If you mean the cost of trade without any decision making in return being your preference.
what i mean is that there are nations of the EU who take take take and don't give back :) i'm sure thats clear enough :):):)
So some industries in the UK lose out because their trading partners are seen as insignificant?
you could trade company to company without the EU, it is just costing us money, the EU that is, if we wanted to trade with european companies we would do so same as we do with America and Asia etc
Trade between member states is not restricted as it is with outside countries.
yeah i know that but its only worth trading in this way with some of the members not all of them.
And now it is easier and we have more bargaining power.
yes and at the same time filling the pockets of the Eastern Europeans with free money :)
that we depend on?
no i'm sorry, we need Russia (gas), we need the US (Lots of things) we need parts of Asia (oil) we don't need Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc etc