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Holger Hestermeyer
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Curious to see the transcript - but from the article the headline is massively misleading 1/3
Because the article then points out that there’s an SPS agreement and regulatory alignment between Switzerland and the EU 2/3
Plus of course joint patrols with Irish police in NI and customs posts away from the border. 3/3
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This is my favourite idiotic tweet of the day. It manages to show fabulous ignorance about Washington, London, Berlin, politics and law-making all while pretending to have knowledge about Brussels.
Just to explain: imagine Parliament needs to pass a law on chemicals tomorrow (say in the process of reforming the UK approach). Parliament needs to know what’s the effect on UK industry, companies, environment etc. Who gives the info? Lobbyists...
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Here’s the problem of Nigel’s get out first, the rest later: you destroy the customer base - and the industry needing it - now. The later deals? Too late.
Quite apart from the fact that the reference to the eurozone is blatent bullshit, the trade happens in the EU, on SM terms in EEA and on FTA terms with Japan, Canada, South Korea...
Oh yeah. And abolishing trade deals with Japan, SK etc. to be able to finally negotiate a trade deal with Japan is also not terribly smart.
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Some details that need to be corrected in this tweet (Thread)
The original Can US FTA is not NAFTA. The current US administration did not like NAFTA and renegotiated it to USMCA. In short - it’s not clear which agreement is meant.
As to harmonising currencies, courts and laws, the U.K. had a permanent opt-out of the Euro, the EU does not harmonise courts and as to laws...
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