HKG3
2018-5-25 22:26:40
以前英係歐盟着數攞盡 - it is pay for by the UK's contribution to the European Commission's budget. The UK is the second largest net contributor to the EU budget.
ASWO
2018-5-25 22:27:46
記得帶回鄉証
9394+689
2018-5-25 22:29:09
但佢攞返唔少opt out
HKG3
2018-5-25 22:43:40
Sometimes I think it may be best to have a so call 'hard' Brexit - it is the easiest option for all parties concern.
However, EU immigration did played a big role in the Brexit vote. The problem with the current EU customs union (the one with Turkey) is that while Turkey needs to open up its market to those who signed a free trade deal with the EU, the other side does not need to give Turkish goods the same access as EU goods.
If the UK stayed in the EU customs union, then the Irish border is less of a question.
The EU also needs to acknowledge that there are a number of countries in Europe, UK included, that do not wish to have closer integration with the EU. Norway and Iceland are put off by the need to share their fishing waters with other EU countries under the Common Fisheries Policy if they become EU members. The UK and Switzerland have domestic issues on EU immigration while allowing Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia to join the EU will risk Russian displeasure to say the lease. On the other hand, Turkey is keen to join the EU, but many EU countries like Germany, do not want it to happen. I know it is a big ask, but all I am saying is that the European Commission should take Brexit as an opportunity to build a form of associated membership that would suit the above countries.
我都係hoping嘅人嚟 - with all due respect, you can continue to hope, but it is very unlikely that the UK government will give BN(O) passport holders the right of abode in the UK - unless something like what happened in Peking on the 4 June 1989 is to take place in Hong Kong (which I am sure that anyone with the right mind would not want it to happen).
HKG3
2018-5-25 22:50:06
The UK is not the only country in the EU which have opt-outs. Denmark, Ireland and Poland also have opt-outs in the EU.
Another form of opt-out is the single currency. When the Eastern European states joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, they were oblige to join the Euro. Many of them are still using their own currency today.
HKG3
2018-5-26 01:04:33
一個國家會因為脫離個聯盟變到會死噉滯咁多問題？ - you need to remember that the large number of EEC and EU laws and regulations that came with membership over 40 years which needs to be sorted out.
不過係依個之前，都係食住花生等到transition periodsssss過
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希望唔會膠到無限extend
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依家嘅情況似會 - I do not think the EU would like that. It wants to have a agreement to govern the EU-UK relationship post Brexit. As the Commission always says that you cannot cherry-pick.
我覺得，拎返個主導權係重要 - While you are in a club like the EU, you will have to give up some sovereignty to be a member. The question is how much? The EU immigration issue became such an issue that it is difficult for Remainers to get a hearing. The fact that EU national working in the UK can get child benefit for their children living in their own respective EU countries does not help matters.
Many people in Hong Kong complained about the 150 mainland Chinese being allowed to come and settle in Hong Kong each day. How would you feel if you are not even able to control the number of people coming in under the freedom of movement rights that the UK is subject to under EU membership? Take Poles as an example - there were 66,000 Poles in the UK according to UK census in 2001. In the 2011 census, seven years after Poland became an EU member state, there were 654,000 Poles in the UK.