kenneth.scot

The European Movement UK has the stated aim of fighting to rejoin the EU “as soon as it is politically possible”, an aim which I support. However, the EU that the UK would be rejoining is different to that which it left - both because the UK would almost certainly no longer enjoy its previous array of opt-outs, and because the EU has already moved on since Brexit happened. (The only opt-out one can envisage the UK potentially re-obtaining is that from the Schengen area, and then only because of Ireland’s opt-out and the need to keep the Irish border open - though Ireland could instead choose to insist on UK Schengen membership as a condition for the UK’s accession.) In the economic arena in particular, the European project (a term many UK pro-Europeans shy away from using) continues to move forward, with developments in the following three areas fundamentally changing the character of the EU membership which the UK left behind. The euro The euro is of course not