Comment on EU to hit Apple with €500m fine over antitrust music streaming complaint from Spotify

• pleb_maximus@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they would be allowed back in, why not? But I doubt they’d get all their special treatements back.

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any of the EU nations I believe have veto authority on adding new members. And there’s a lot of hate for the UK.

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    • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really? Here in Germany I only ever heard that its stupid the UK left, but that’s basically it. Didn’t notice any hate.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From the outside (the US in my case) it looks like there’s a lot of hate, but maybe it’s just some well deserved schadenfreude. Everyone loves to laugh at Brexit voters.

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      • tiredcapillary@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Weren’t the French pretty salty about the UK? I recall seeing some articles on punishing the UK for leaving

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not so sure. The UK was a big contributor to the EU, not just monetarily, but it also gives the EU more soft power.

  And I think it’d set a good precedent for the EU - look, even a country as wealthy and with as much soft power as the UK left then decided it was a terrible idea. Clearly it must be good to be in the EU!

  That said, geopolitics is geopolitics. Various countries would be trying to carve out any little advantage they can get.

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• Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You absolutely would, but not on the same terms as before. Those special privileges Thatcher negotiated are gone forever.

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