- Joined
- May 7, 2017
- Messages
- 335
- Reaction score
- 553
- Age
- 28
- Country
-
Although there’s a big perceptional gap, Britain is actually culturally (not to mention ethnically and geographically) closer to Scandinavia than we are to just about anywhere else in the world, see this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35374822
Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland all share a fundamentally sceptical view of European integration:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-of-europe-germans-french-most-in-favor-poll/
While the ‘core’ of Europe are driving hard towards becoming a federal union, so this opens up the question: would it be better for the Scandinavian countries which are currently in the EU (Denmark, Sweden and Finland) to leave with the U.K. and create a new trading bloc with Norway and Iceland? All of these countries are also economically buoyant, whereas many EU member states are heavily reliant on European cohesion funds to stay solvent... it seems to me that without the UK the balance of restraining integration will severely deteriorate, and I think this will annoy and alienate the Nordic countries to the point this may become a feasible settlement in the coming year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35374822
Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland all share a fundamentally sceptical view of European integration:
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-of-europe-germans-french-most-in-favor-poll/
While the ‘core’ of Europe are driving hard towards becoming a federal union, so this opens up the question: would it be better for the Scandinavian countries which are currently in the EU (Denmark, Sweden and Finland) to leave with the U.K. and create a new trading bloc with Norway and Iceland? All of these countries are also economically buoyant, whereas many EU member states are heavily reliant on European cohesion funds to stay solvent... it seems to me that without the UK the balance of restraining integration will severely deteriorate, and I think this will annoy and alienate the Nordic countries to the point this may become a feasible settlement in the coming year.
