UK to leave EU

[ukatheist]

My understanding was that to be part of the EEA you had to be a member of the EU, or EFTA. The UK was in EFTA before joining the EU, so maybe they are saying that the UK would revert to EFTA membership?



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The EFTA most definitely don't wan't them. They've seen the destructive, spoiled, dog in the manger attitude towards European cooperation that the UK has continuously engaged in since Maggie the milk stealer's accession in 1978 and don't want hand, act nor part in it.

Actually, Norway seem to have softened to the idea of the UK rejoining EFTA after initially expressing major concerns, but its moot anyway.

Having read a bit more about it, it would seem that the legal challenge is that the UK would remain part of the EEA even if it was not an EU nor an EFTA member (the reasoning being that the only way to leave the EEA is to formally withdraw from it, and withdrawing from the EU does not do that).

I think it's an interesting idea, as a transitional arrangement.