Why is Bulgaria in the EU

And the UK obviously obtains far less than we put in. Not to mention all the non-monetary benefits such as free-travel, safety, security, etc that the EU provides. Bulgaria actively repays the favour in the sense that we have an expanded market for our goods and services. And it's not all about wealth ...

You dont understand the purpose of the EU. For the donor countries its in their favour to have new markets and cheaper sources of labour. It also adds to the stability in Europe. Its to the advantage of other countries that all its members expand economically.

Bulgaria is a tiny market and the consumers in Bulgaria can easily be forgotten about. Bulgaria is repaying nothing. Oh yeah, travel is great, no one went on holiday before the schengen and visa-free rules started, and no one possibly travels outside the EU where a visa is needed. Not to mention not all countries outside the u require visas. it goes to show visa-free travel and eu is not mutually exclusive.

It doesn't. Bulgaria is a tiny market Britain exports hardly anything to. Bulgaria can easily be forgotten about. Bulgaria is as important to British exporters as Canada is to indoor ski companies and BP is to qatar. It's not in favour of net contributors to have drains on eu resources tagging along.

It doesn't. Bulgaria is a tiny market Britain exports hardly anything to. Bulgaria can easily be forgotten about.

It doesn't. Bulgaria is a tiny market Britain exports hardly anything to. Bulgaria can easily be forgotten about. Bulgaria is as important to British exporters as Canada is to indoor ski companies and BP is to qatar. It's not in favour of net contributors to have drains on eu resources tagging along.

Its a tiny market now, but it along with the rest of the EU will develop in future.
As long as an accession country commits itself to the aims, standards and values of the EU then they cna applt to join as per article 2 and article 49 of the Treaty of Lisbon. The countries who are the net contributors can object, but they all voted in favour.

Britain exports hardly anything anyway, speaking in terms of physical goods. We are a wholly inefficient system, and the addition of another country into a market where our services (which are crucial for the balance of payments) actually have some elements of comparative advantage is a blessing for our own development, as well as their own

Well the EU is not just about money, it's also about spreading a zone of peace, democracy and liberty. One way you achieve this is to invest in a country like Bulgaria, economically and politically. You may not think this is a good aim or that the EU is the best way to achieve this, but others like myself do. Repeatedly arguing it is poor and we Brits do not export high enough % to it, misses the point entirely. That's like a Brit arguing Cornwall or Wales is poor region of the UK and thus we should question why it is should be kicked out.

When Bulgaria grows to be bigger it'll still be a relatively small market, the rest of the world would have moved on. The EU should be a union of rich countries not a union of weak and poor countries.

But it will contribute to make the EU itself a bigger power in global affairs ...

Britain exports loads of services, it's what the economy runs on, Bulgaria is not a big market for those services. Bulgaria is not important to Britain. Bulgaria is only in the eu because the eu is expansionist and does not have an economic plan for development

All of which is what I said, except for the fact that as Bulgaria develops it will begin to demand services, which will benefit the UK...


I suppose in your world nato, un, interpol, five eyes, and being good friends with the only superpower is irrelevant in your world. The eu has not promotes peace. The eu and peace is a coincidence. Peace has been a general trend since before the EU was created after Korea.

When Bulgaria grows to be bigger it'll still be a relatively small market, the rest of the world would have moved on. The EU should be a union of rich countries not a union of weak and poor countries.
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You are missing the point of why the EU was founded and what its aims are. Its not just economic.

The EU is institutionally racist. Such a coincidence all its member states who get to bask in its glory are WHITE COUNTRIES.


How about letting Chad join or Botswana? White men turning their backs on black people and helping lighter skinned people. Thought not Jean claude Hitler

The eu doesn't even meet it's aims.

Peace - no
development - no
more international say - hardly
stronger economy - um, i don't know. How about we ask Greece for that answer

The eu is a failed dream. It's a disastrous pet project of the elite.

Not noticed any wars within the EU.
Think we have a largerGDP than 1973.
Its a more significnat block acting as 28 countries than they would on their own.
There are more countries than just Greece.

The main objectives of the Union are now to promote peace, the Union's values and the well-being of its peoples.

These general objectives are supplemented by a list of more detailed objectives:
Brussels, paris, madrid and cologne prove how secure the eu is. The intelligence sharing is fantastic and the no internal borders allowing weapons to be freely carried from eastern europe to be used in the paris attacks doesn't matter. Reducing the competitiveness of London to give other cities a chance to catch up goes against that point.There's not full employment, the euro does not bring any protection or growth and the carbon targets to reduce pollution go against growth. This objective is nonsense and contradictoryBritain does more for science on its own than the rest of the eu. Besides all that can continue without the euAll ideological and I'm against some of that. There is no economic cohesion with the euro and Britain's euroscepticism and eu countries unilaterally installing borders proves this object to not have worked

Except it was amended by the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007 . It isnt a distance argyment , its those countries which are within Europe, which is why it is called the European Union and not the European, African and Jamaican Union.

It makes no sense if you dont appreciate what the EU is. Guess which continent Bulgaria is on and guess which one Jamiaca is on?



Getting to see why it's called the European Union?

EU can't help every country around the world .

I'd suggest to form a world government but people think their countries are very important so most won't agree right now.
Just think a country such as Saudi Arabia with Britain ... they don't match.
We'll have to wait a long time until a world government is functional .
Until then countries will not have to help one another that much , they will have military and all these useless stuff that don't help humanity at all . When people complain about the 18 billion that NASA takes each year , USA spends 600 billion to military and that's fine , because it make USA stronger but humanity as a whole weaker.

There you go again with your micro aggression. They dont match! Why not just come out and say our skin colours are completely contrasting and the EU is a white supremacist super state?

The EU is already looking to build an army to wage war on non white states see the president practically admitting it below. It seems you dont even realise the EU is preparing an army which I guess shows you are an ignorant complicit racist and not a hateful racist which is something i guess but same result in the end.

Just look at the white mens thirst in response to the EU Army.. Thirsty remain voting POC blood lusters