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sakisv | 1 year ago

I wonder how things would have played out back in the crisis of 2008 if Iceland was a member of the Eurozone:

What they would have been allowed or forced to do and whether their response could have been the same.

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eastbound|1 year ago

Allowed is one thing, influenced is another. Remember the Libdem party in UK? Several of its MPs were elected on Boris Johnson’s pro-Brexit program, then turned over and fought against the Brexit. Yes, after the election. Left and joined the opposite party. This is what Europe does to its countries.

dcrazy|1 year ago

I am confused whether you’re mistaken or just speaking unclearly. Boris Johnson has always belonged to the Conservative party. The Tories formed a coalition with the LibDems in 2010 because there was no majority winner in the Parliamentary election, but the LibDems were anti-Brexit. Even the Tories weren’t consistently pro-Brexit.

smcl|1 year ago

People defecting to opposition parties isn't a strictly European thing. Hell the next US president and a number of his senior appointments are now Republican but were previously Democrat