re: #72 Danack

Since I’m an American, I’ve got no skin in this game, but my non-expert opinion is that, long-term, Brexit will bad for both the UK and the EU. Short-term, it’s likely to be a disaster.

Nothing was really broken pre-Brexit, so why try to fix something that was working more or less OK?

Yes, Italy and Greece still threaten to drag the entire EU economy down, and losing the bulwark of the UK’s economy is certainly going to make that problem even worse, especially if other nations decide to exit. I can certainly understand why the EU would not want the UK or any other member to cut and run, because making it easy would mean the end of the EU as an institution. The member nations of the EU essentially signed a contract when they signed up. Reneging on that contract is not quite the same as leaving an abusive relationship. In any case, the EU got hard-nosed only after the UK decided to go ahead with this folly. You’re essentially blaming the co-signer of a contract for trying to enforce the terms of the contract the other party (the UK) has decided to abandon.

As for the demographics problem, scores of nations around the world face the same issue. Italy and Greece are not unique in that regard.

I’m glad you’re happy with the results. We’ll see which of us was correct in another decade.