Why Other EU Countries Aren't Following the UK's Brexit Path 

I did notice an uptick in people calling for a Nexit, after Wilders' PVV won the election. A Nexit would be even more catastrophic than Brexit, as The Netherlands' is mostly trading by land, and Rotterdam is the harbour of Europe. Imagine the extra paper work if everything coming and going through Rotterdam needs the extra attention (that has caused some British companies to close their doors), and then the distribution into the rest of Europe gets the border controls? Brexit's troubles would pale by comparison. And that is not even mentioning the getting rid of the Euro, and (I guess) going back to the Guilder, which Britain didn't even have to worry about..

except the german one! -- they still talking about DEXIT ( GEXIT in english?) ......fortunately their popularity is declining ( at the moment)

The uk wasn’t stupid to leave the Brits never did fit in they were always very eurosceptic and never cared about the project even most remainers didn’t care about the projects goals and only saw the eu in mercantile terms it’s better to be a good neighbour and friend than a trouble some tenant

​@@skabuoyYou must be Dutch. What is current approval rating for the EU in the Netherlands? And do you think that if the referendum is held, it will lead to a withdrawal?

@@Wdirjhdvjjfjkeckk I am, I don't know, and I don't think so, but one can't be sure nowadays. I don't want to be so cocky (Cameron-style) to think remain will be a shoe-in. There has been a swing to the right, like everywhere with populist people trying to get in power, and I think the people will only vote to leave if there is a campaign on the level of Boris Johnson, truth wise. On the other hand, the Dutch are pretty rational for the most part and trade is what keeps our economy afloat and I think (hope) most people will realize the adverse effect of a Nexit on our trade relations. Also, Geert Wilders' anti-EU PVV may be the biggest party, he still only represented 23% of the votes, plus that he is not so vocal anymore on that matter. The 'anti immigration' issue is till a big thing though, just as with the Brexit debate in the UK, and the MAGA cult in the US. As history has taught us : When the excrement hits the fan, people won't be looking for solutions, they will be looking for a scapegoat.

Aheum, not British but English exceptionalism 😀

The only people thriving are the MEPs and the EU Commisioners with their huge salaries and big expense accounts.

And the most ardent Brexiteers were the ones who got the most EU subsidies. Or, to be more specific, the regions _with_ those Brexiteers. And, as AlexGys so subtly implied : England is not Britain, nor the other way around.

However the IMF will tell you that the UK is doing and will continue to do better than France and Germany so perhaps it is true that the EU was holding us back?

@@AlexGys9 Are you a Scot ?

Simply said when you think your country still rules the waves! 😂😂😂

Britains tactic in dividing the european continent is and stays consistent., for centuries already.

@@icephoenix5466 Agree 100% But we know this. We now very well now. For this very reason, "rejoiners" are as deluded as brexiteers

People get accustomed to the benefits they have and take them for granted. Until something like Brexit happens and they see how bad things could be if they left. Sometimes you just need a reality check.

​@@Alby_Torino thinking that the UK will be welcomed back into the EU anytime soon is indeed delusional. A couple shifts of govt down the line or a generational shift or two maybe, but I as someone still living in the EU don't blame people for trying. The UK is ultimately going to have to prove itself ready to rejoin if it ever desires to, and part of that is making sure it's not going be like a cat that comes in and immediately wants out again.

Notably not british

@@sans9232 Germans were almost as annoying as Brits.

Joining and become a eu member has its benifits and can be a bless just look czechia which is really successful under the eu and use the benefits

Racism and bullying by EU . But lots of fall out in EU trade but this isn't voiced, and loss of an ally. We should have stayed we would have been in a better place when EU crashes in 2030. Don't look to UK for support when things don't work out.

Why does the EU have a special relationship with Israel and what exactly is it? Nobody knows because the EU isn't unaccountable to ordinary people, the parliament can't initiate legislation

@TheUlrikkaul "It is always better to sit at the table, than to be on the menu"? This! This is yet another reason why, if the EU did not exist, European countries would have to invent something very similar, if not identical, to it. In reality, did the EU not exist, every European country, with the probable exception of Germany, would simply be items on the breakfast menu for the USA, Japan, India, China and so on. Together, we have the world's largest and richest single market area, the world's second or third largest economy, and a population of around half a BILLION increasingly affluent people. The EU/EEA is both an economic booster, and a sovereignty amplifier. The latter is especially important for the smaller member states.

@@gloin10 so true!

First time the UK ever took one for the team? Yeah, can see that. Although they did not realize they were doing it at the moment.

​@@RealMashleaving the eu was not our biggest mistake. It was the public voting for Turkeys over and over again into government draining the public purse for their own benefit.

@@colinsmith1288 Nah...Brexit allowed us to be ruled by turkeys as the adults were kicked out by that child Boris.

What British empire?

@@stephenconway2468 David Cameron started it off with tax rises and austerity pay. Then it continued on. It is one of the reasons GDP remains so low. Wages have been undercut for 14 years.Also lack of investment in infrastructure when borrowing would have been very low. While CEO's have been given enormous pay rises even when companies are performing badly for public investment.The Turkey party created the problems we see today in the Uk economy. Being out of the eu just exposed how bad the government really were. They could no longer blame the eu once we were out.

Great entertainment though, in X factor beating Netflix by a mile. In essence though, it's just sad.

The British never really fit into the eu they were very eurosceptic and were only in the union for economic reasons the uk was right to leave as they didn’t fit with the project it’s better to a good neighbour and Friend then a troublesome tenant

@@thomasbootham2707 ...you forgot spy for the USA and Russia...

En tant que français, ont considérait les Anglais comme les toutous des américains, ils nous empêchait d'avancer sur de nombreuses réformes.

Ils le sont toujours, depuis le début du 20ème siècle. ​@@Libanoni974

The EU has united its members in fear following their disgraceful treatment of the UK.

...and its disruptions and being an agent for the USA or Russia (whoever paid most)...

@@RealMash Crikey, there's paranoid delusion for you!

The UK's money? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The poor man of Europe.

@@franswiggers601 They did contribute to the EU, even if it went back to the UK, it wasnt free.

@@colinsmith1288 The problem is that you don't get it. Brexit has actually reduced sovereignty in it's true sense. You can argue about legal sovereignty, but the experts all said that we had not lost that by being inside the EU. In any case, what matters is the power to do things. That has been weakened by Brexit. The collapse of the UKCA was obvious but it is not the only issue. History tells us that the smaller economy next door to the bigger one, tends to have to follow the bigger one...without the power to vote. Ask the Irish about their economic history with the UK. I guess you did not know that Ireland had to mimic UK's immigration policies, our monetary policies and thus a lot of our industrial and fiscal policies. That is the same story across Europe between smaller nations and their bigger neighbours. Indeed, back in the 1960's this was discussed in detail prior to joining the EEC. Then it was understood that when comparing the legal and real sovereignty, the UK had the same legal sovereignty but it sure did not the same effective sovereignty. Brexit weakened us. Experts warned us about this. It was sad and kind of crazy that people did not get this. The noise from UKIP and others drowned out the experts.

@@stephenconway2468 After world war 2 the Uk had a borrowing debt of 240% and food rationing. The eu never improved the wealth of most Uk people only the multi nationals. Without the eu or the Tory party the Uk gets to look at what it needs to fix. Tax rises for the rich. Such as tax on newspapers owned by tax exiles would be a start. Tax on private schools that give unfair advantage to the well off to have superior education.Tax rises will come to fund rebuilding the Uk. But it will come from many sources. Expect rises on petrol,alcohol,cigarettes,pensions in the chancellors budget to fund the NHS, Schools and roads.

@@colinsmith1288 The UK had indeed a a huge borrowing debt on it's shoulders. From 1945 to 1973, It was down to about 50% by the time we joined the EEC. That included having one of two devaluations. In 1973, as we joined, we had the first OPEC crisis. There are lots of studies on this matter and here is a quote from one specific study "For the EU15 as a whole, real GDP in 2000 was estimated to be 26.1 per cent higher than if there had been no economic integration after 1950 with the impact for the UK very similar at 25.5 per cent." - Badinger (2005) This is a comparative study showing the net affect/impact of being inside/outside of the EEC/EU. Now, to the other issue, redistribution and taxation of the rich. This is where I agree. We have actually lost a lot of opportunity over a few decades by just looking at the total GDP figure and not looking at productivity. Productivity is aided by proper redistribution. It grows the domestic economy and encourages investment. That is OUR issue and should not be conflated with EU issues.

@@stephenconway2468 Our biggest asset was eu citizens and the eu market. But we are out of the eu for good. My opinion we would have to to now give up too much such as soveriegnty like Gibraltar and the RAF bases in Cyprus and Northern lreland. Converting the pound to euros would cost billions,money that is much more needed to fix our broken public services. We could offer freedom of movement for eu citizens,something l am in favour of doing but it would mean labour breaking one of it's election pledges to do so. We should however try to join as many trade alliances as is possible with Asian and African countries. So that we secure access to resources and food. We have to accept there is no return to the eu. We are not wanted and should accept our future is purely global.

@@colinsmith1288 "Converting the pound to euros would cost billions" I understand it is your opinion. 2 issues here 1) we had no need to convert ever and 2) conversion would only be when it is financially worthwhile. Based on what I understand, rejoining requires that at some stage we take the Euro but there is no timetable. The FOM is not for this term. So Labour will not break any promise on that. They did however talk about improving mobility which is not FOM, but also which is quite vague. I agree at the moment we are not wanted. That is what we need to correct. Trust takes years to build and longer to rebuild. Trade alliances with Africa are relatively useless. No disrespect, but we don't have anything to offer the majority of the people there and the GDP for the entire continent is less than France. Asia is also a huge issue as we have both distance and time zone problems. Plus, more local nations can do pretty much everything we can without the cots of that distance.

Shadenfreude.Such a beautifull word! Having lived myself 14 years in Germany (my first 14 ones), I am sometimes asked to explain what it means. In Spain, of course, we know the concept, but have no specific word for it.

Ich kann da nur zustimmen

French with a german grandmother, I completely agree with you: EU is doing better without UK

The EU ruled all this. Funny cos I go cycling with a friend who is a partner in an Anglo - German metals business. The German bit has gone bust. Journos don't tell you about many other EU companies that have suffered - the worst seem to have been German - but that's the free press for you. All a great pity as solidarity between the nations is palpable. We both think it would have been a different EU if it had been run from Berlin. Practical and no nonsense says my other good friend from Essen.

Enjoy the last decade of German wealth and stability. Solidarity is what Europe needs but the EU will gradually undermine it. Don't then rely on people you pushed away.

I think they got confused with the schengen area , Ireland is out Norway in

Its not that deep lil bro

@@thedude9014 Pretty weird for a big economy channel to confuse the two

@@g.peters244 And did you notice how quickly the former axis of Paris and Berlin is now evolving into the "Weimar Triangle" of Paris, Berlin and Warsaw? How RELEVANT Poland has become in the last 30 years?

@@thorstenguenther There are several reasons for this. I will mention just two: 1. the rising strength of Poland's economy and the growing wealth of our country. 2. the geopolitical rise of Central Europe, of which Poland is the natural leader. While London chose the path of isolationism and nationalism, Poland returned to its position as one of the EU's policy makers.

​@@g.peters244We Finns have always liked the Poles because just like us, the Poles understand the dangers of Russian Neo-Imperialism and warmongering. The Finns will now also support the Poles in the NATO, cheers. 🇫🇮🤜🏻🤛🏻🇵🇱

No my friend - we see it as the The Sixth Republic - its so utterly French, so bureaucratic, bourgeois, arrogant and abandoned about its future.

​@@DY-cq3qdsaying that when the UK's EXACTLY what you are saying for the french, bureaucratic (cant build a small tunnel due to it, it became overpriced as hell took a few years and its STILL not done), Bourgeois, the gentry ruled since the British revolution, it hasnt changed today, arrogant, its the whole f*cking reason for the Brexit since economical reasons were BS (look at current UK's economical problem see how much the EU did for them). And abandonned about its future because the UK's governement abandonned its people so badly everyone got mad and now expect labor to fix everything when the devastation is already done. Thats ironic isnt it

@@Freedmoon44 Sorry we disagree. The EU holds european progress back. In the EU you can't even enter a trade treaty without permission (min 3 years) It is also isolationist and pays a price for that. The top 6 players get rich the satellites poorer. It pushed its ambitions with Ukraine - and caused a war - which the union was supposed to prevent. Its now imposed sanctions on UK - how liberal, how democratic! The good old Treaty of Versailles and its principles - the self determination of peoples we all supposedly believe in? Not to mention reparations if you don't tow the line. You would think after two world wars the EU would know better? Well? The USA views the EU with derision and really only wants to deal with individual countries (Germany, Poland). The EU imports problems to the centre (this week Brussels next week Strasbourg). Then finds it can't deal with them because it loves control, instead of devolving them to people who know what to do. As for the Catalan separatists who have a right of freedom it took the EU months to say ooh er mm maybe and use discreet diplomatic channels. If Nato dissolves don't rely on the EU. Despite not admitting it, its really the USA that holds the EU together - not directly or that much indirectly, just by lending its confidence to a free world that wouldn't be there with the Epoo. Finally the EU is incapable of self assessment or reform, its like an obese liberal "but I'm a liberal; I can't possibly be wrong".

Napoleon tried to isolate the UK from continental comerce 200 years ago. Now the british are doing it to themselves. He must be laughing in his grave.......

Norway is in blue and we have never been in the EU

The thumbnail is clickbait, nothing more! The Shetland Islands should be red too .. wouldn't surprise me one bit if Switzerland appeared blue, should the map reach that far 🙄 ...

You forgot that Netherlands is the port for the EU...and slowly that would be replaced. Then you have insurance and other financial services. You have decades of ties with Belgium and Luxembourg.

the tourists might still come and go but a lot of other things will certainly get much harder and more expensive. every exchange of goods and services will get hampered by customs and different rules and regulations. the single market would be gone and many sectors of the Dutch economy will simply collapse.

Many EU companies have moved their headquarters to the Netherlands to pay less tax. The Dutch leaving the EU would force these companies to look elsewhere and a huge amount of taxes would not be received by the Dutch government.

@@stephenconway2468 uk thought the same for his ports and financial services. Guess what?

We love the Dutch - on holiday last month and some of the frendliest people on the planet, but doesn't the EU treat you like a doormat!

belgian here, I can confirm I would never wana leave the EU, EVER! in fact, there are no political parties in belgium that advocate to leave the EU and there ever has been and after brexit, ud be a raging lunatic to suggest such a folly!

Thats because Netherlands has Proportional representation system and not first past the post system. But most of the bigger countries has first past the post system. Wilders would have a good majority on his own if Netherlands had first past the post system. So its a good thing that Netherlands has Proportional representation system. So praise should be for Proportional representation system rather than Dutch voters in this case.

You are right about Wilders' majority and I raised an eyebrow when I heard that as well, but he is the biggest party (and the fact I say 'he is', rather than 'he has' should be clear for anybody who knows PVV), and many people confuse biggest party with majority.

We are one of the founding countries, we will not leave.

@@Bramfly We are also a democracy, so as soon as enough wappies think it is better for the country, we will...

Yes, we are growing faster than France or Germany. We should have left in 1992 when the EEC was abolished.

@@paullarne yep Dream on

@@paullarne You are not, because you conveniently forget to mention that your enormous inflation is eating up all your economic growth. Btw, the EEC was not abolished, it was transferred into the EU, and, oh boy, the UK was enthousiasticaly about it and one of the major players.

@@franswiggers601 Our inflation is 2%. And you conveniently forget that we opted out of two major parts of the Maastricht Treaty, the Euro and Schengen. We accepted the EEC as a workable compromise and we would not have left it.

@@paullarne Also check your earlier figures, Paul, double digits, for years. But don't despair, you're free, you always were free, create your island paradise. We need friends and partners, clearly you aren't.

Most European countries use the Euro € currency and there is no exit clause from the Euro. So they couldn’t leave the €€ if they wanted to.

​@@aleph8888yes they could. You can not be in the EU and still use the Euro. It is still stupid to leave the EU. But the British are finding out more and more 😂

Not realy, to leave EU you need to have a strong economy because this exit it will come with an economic crisis like how happen in UK and most of europeans countries doesn’t have a strong economy like UK to live EU and this mean bankruptcy (like how it is in Argentina now), even UK have big economic problems because of brexit and the populist Conservativ party In this moment only 2 countries can exit from EU and have small economic problems France and Germany the rest of the countries who are members in EU if they leave that would mean bankruptcy for them

@@michelobala6846 the UK does not have a strong economy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@annebokma4637 not now, because of brexit a lot of things happen and UK doesn’t have the same economic power like in the past, even Italy or Spain are ahead of them, I don't understand why there are still members in the G7 Anyway the thing is that brexit was a mistake who make UK VERY WEAK and other EU countries don’t want to do this mistake because like I said this will mean bankruptcy for them

We feel better in the EU without UK always undermining the best political project ever

Wrong. The problem is not that British people didn't feel European. It's that Europeans didn't feel British. The ultimate plan of the UK, or more accurately, its elite, was not to not integrate, but to dominate the union. They genuinely thought the EU would become the British Empire 2.0. in everything but name. And when they saw that was never gonna happen, that they would have to treat the other countries as (sic) actual equals, they felt disgusted to their stomach. And the decades long process to discrediting the union began. Add some opportunists and grifters, and you get Brexit.

@@XanderVJ We weren't even founding members though, and Churchill even envisioned Europe as its own separate entity. I think there's a lot to be said about the UK driving a hard bargain and leading a coalition against some schemes and obtaining further opt-outs, but if the UK really wanted some leading role in Europe then I do wonder how much backlash it would have gotten, especially in the directly post-war era. Britain was until recently seen as the more pragmatic outlier to the continent, and certain countries therefore enjoyed having the UK's weight on the table against Germany and France.

Never felt welcome, never felt our culture was intact. It always seemed one way .endless compromises. A club for France Germany and Benelux. De Gaulle was right maybe. Its been one disaster after another.

@@gloin10 the EU is a pointless organisation which appears to 'fix' problems caused by too much government interference in the member-states, in the first place.

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 It's not pointless

@@NoName-hg6cc it is. What does the EU do, that free trade cannot do?

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 EU is based on free trade, it regulate it so custom aren't a necessity

@@NoName-hg6cc how can you have 'free trade' by adding extra regulations?

What does the EU do, that actual free trade in Europe cannot do?

​@yorkshiremgtow1773, you have to try harder like try to think and to learn.

@@hurri7720 please, answer my question.

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 "Free trade" wouldn`t control the outbursts of our little wannabe-dictators, like the hungarian ones. Also Erasmus, the CAP, the fact that we have to adhere to the same enviromental or quality tegulations (so there can be no "dumping" in this areas, in order to be more competitive), the mutual defense pact, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR PEOPLE, not only for goods and money.......all things that a "free trade zone" cannot provide..... there are more, but I like the time and the patience to teach you what you already should know

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 "What does the EU do, that actual free trade in Europe cannot do?" It provides the level playing field, with common regulations and enforcement of those regulations, without which there could NOT be free trade. I am old enough to remember the massive queues of lorries at the Customs post in Dundalk. I am old enough to remember the flying checkpoints on both sides of the Border, and the baggage searches in airports and sea ports. Thanks to the EU's Single Market, all that sounds like some sort of nasty, dysfunctional, fantasy to anyone under 40.

Its not stopped war - Balkans Civil War in Spain and Ireland and EU has helped to cause Ukraine war??/ Where've you been?

It happens all the time. So stupid!

Most english people specifically voted to "leave Europe" so they are now african.

Exactly. Brexit trolls were and still operate from Russia. Its in their interest to break and divide the free world.

UNINTELLIGIBLE

Wrong ... what really motivated leaving was the need for freedom. Naive and possibly ill contrived. If its inflated egos maybe France is your bag, Glories passed ? Maybe out part in freeing Europe?

Well, yeah, it isn't. Like being rule taker from cptpp

😂

It doen't seem so based on idiotic and ill informed replies to this video!

@@DY-cq3qd ?

@@heldertorres4296 Well ok I agree, I think about all the Brits that work in the EU and try and stick it together. Note very few of worlds top 50 companies are from EU. No tech giants for a start. In IT terms EU is backward.

I dont think he likes Ireland 😂

Ireland is in EU.everyone know that😁

TWADDLE!

Yep if you leave its six of the best and detention for the foreeable future - how freeing such a feeling is.

Especially for illegal immigrants.

But eventually you will lose your nationhood .. identity .. culture ... zzzz

And yet....

Greeks were in deep anger. They are not idiots (not all of them) NO GREXIT possibility. We are part of EU and we feel part of EU family

Bye bye any idea of a free Europe so hard fought for... Just sit and do as Ursula tells you ...

@@DY-cq3qd Join the BRICS . Ciao ciao

Fear is not a good motive for staying --- and the EU will not listen to you ,,, it's to busy listening to itself.

Because they're careless and sloppy.

It will be all right.

Time will tell, history has a nasty way of coming back and biting you on the bum.

No major political party in Greece wants GREXIT. Just the comunist party. Greece citizens want to be part of EU regardless orientation.

We know that since the Orange One qualified us as a foe. Being allied with Anglosaxons has always been a very tricky business.

Despite the claims of British Brexiters, the EU is pretty much a free comerce zone with some regulations to ensure competitivity, so that now one can make "dumping" by ignoring qaulity, enviromental or human rights-regulations....... Regarding foreign politics and military matters, we mostly follow USAs lead, and there is almost no european integration . Perhaps the only complain you could rise, is the nasty habit we are developing trying to build our OWN weapon systems (localy designed and produced in Europe), instead of buying your fancy toys, but that`s all........ So, no worries ;)

Being threated as second class citizen by there own goverment. Being arrested for a stupid joke you made decades ago. I say it was. It looks like the eu was accauly stopping british politicians from being as exploitive as they are now. No wonder they wanted to live.