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EU open to flexibility on euro and Schengen if UK tries to rejoin
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I'm not talking about British exceptionalism in any way. Clearly lots of people in this thread don't like the UK. Fine. That doesn't mean you should twist my words though.
Multiple EU countries haven't adopted the euro and don't show signs of adopting it. So clearly the EU already practises "flexibility" on the euro, to some degree.
If EU citizens decide they don't want the UK in the EU, okay. I would like good UK-EU relations, but I can't control what EU citizens think of the UK.
Your words are not being twisted as I'll lay out below.
These countries enjoy the things the UK decided to reject when leaving: Special privileges for joining early enough.
New countries joining do not receive any such privileges anymore and neither should the UK. That is being treated fairly. Any position that wants the UK to be treated better than other new countries wanting to join is what I called British Exceptionalism.
I'm fine with them joining on the same terms as every other new country. If they don't want to join, there are plenty of ways to cooperate without that. Finally: I generally don't tend to think of the UK at all (neither negatively or positively), unless it comes up in political topics.
The reason I mentioned "punish" is because that's the sense I'm getting from the comments in this thread. A dislike of the UK. Not because of the joining standards people want for the UK. Obviously the UK should get the same joining terms as any other joining country. The "punish" attitude comes from comments in this thread, like the comment saying the UK hasn't been relevant for 100 years. I could say the same thing about various EU countries, but I don't want to, because I want good relations with EU countries.
Thankfully the EU itself seems to make reasonable comments on the UK these days, and I hope the UK and EU governments will find good ways to cooperate.
If you want to downvote me and tell me I'm a British exceptionalist bastard, go ahead.