Moggy wrote:Return_of_the_STAR wrote:I must say I do think that the EU may well implode in the future. It did become too big. I would have been happy with an EU containing the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg. Maybe Sweden and Austria. Not Spain or Italy. For the record this isn't about EU immigration, just economics. I don't have an issue a lot of the Eastern European immigration. I believe they've certainly helped our economic growth majority appear to be here to work and start a new life. But I believe their economies do not fit in with the more economically developed countries. Spain is on massively borrowed time and struggling massively, it needs to get out of the EU as well. Economically currently I don't think we needed too.
I do see your point there, even if I disagree with it. The EU should be working to improve the lives in the poorer European countries (and I think they do), not leaving them out.
Look at the difference to Ireland since it joined the EU. It went from one of the poorest places in Europe, to having a reasonable economy – so reasonable in fact that Photek might be buying a 4K TV from Northern Ireland.
All countries have the same issue though, the rich American states v the poorer ones. London v Cornwall. The answer isn’t to cut bits off or leave in some sort of race to the bottom, but to work together and try and raise everybody up.
The threat though of mass immigration to the eu from Africa and the Middle East is a whole different ball game.
That has little to do with the EU though. The EU disappearing wouldn't stop migration from poorer parts of the world.
In regards to the mass immigration I was referring to us being out of the eu or in it.
Yeah I understand what u r saying about everywhere having poor parts, you can keep going smaller and smaller, every city has poor districts, every street has poorer residents but I do believe that the EU got too large too quickly. Spain needs drastic economic action, the euro and European bank I don't believe has been good for it.