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Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Actually probably not. Not without major concessions. The pound will have to go which they will never accept unless they have absolutely no other choice

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Why does the pound have to go?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Because countries that join nowadays have to adopt the Euro. Denmark, for example, joined when that was still allowed, so they still have their DK.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Apparently it's dependent on the signing of a certain agreement before a certain date, which the UK did sign, so it's actually debated on whether or not Brexit made that signature null or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That would be such a mistake and only serve to cause more division, because as you say, the UK would never accept it. Neither would multiple countries already in the EU that also use their own currency.

    The EU, generally, are pragmatic. They'd much rather get other concessions than wasting political capital on trying to enforce the Euro on the UK.

    E: downvote all you like, but that's realpolitik. The EU isn't going to pass up the second largest economy in the continent over something so trivial that they don't even pressure much smaller countries into it. Pure fantasy from people who don't have a clue.

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