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Talks on UK rejoining EU could start in 10 years’ time, says Peter Mandelson (www.theguardian.com)

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He said that in the meantime it was essential for the UK’s productivity and growth to reduce the damaging impact of the Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson “as best we possibly can”.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully the EU won't buy it and the UK will be required to join Schengen, adopt the euro, etc.

Joining Schengen would be really nice - the CTA is the main reason Ireland hasn't joined Schengen, but if the UK has to join, then Ireland almost certainly would as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ll also take metric drinks measures (400ml is a reasonable amount of beer for one drink) and replacing Britain’s chunky electrical plugs with the more slender ones on the Continent (especially for unearthed electronic devices, the British plug is overkill).

If Jacques and Fritz demand that the Brits switch to driving on the right like Napoleon intended, that’s a fair cop, given all that has come before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

These would all be nice but - Ireland is in the EU and Ireland doesn't do any of these (even metrification of drinks), and none of these are listed as reservations on the part of Ireland (which were only available to the founding members of the EU, of which Ireland is one).

So probably not required to join the EU, sadly.