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Interesting response, the diagram I posted also shows countries outside the EU but in Europe and refers to
UK’s status in European economic, trade, travel arrangements
it’s the lack of agreement/arrangements in place for the UK which makes me feel 🥶 🤢 😞
I could be wrong but were we not in the same space as Cyprus and Eire before the referendum, not exactly at the heart of Europe..
almac68-
We, the UK, were outside of the Eurozone, so with Bulgaria, Romania & Croatia?
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Sorry, not having a go at you, or flying a Brexit flag. My response is more about the visualisation being misleading, rather than politics generally. It presumably exists to make a political point rather than provide an overview of links between European nations, which is a bit shit. We do have a trade agreement with the EU, and we are in a CTA with RoI. I think those would fall under "economic, trade, and travel agreements" which the visualisation claims to be representing. Beyond that, there are other EU schemes we remain part of (we are still a part of the ERC and should join Horizon Europe, and I assume there are many others).
Basically, it kind of annoyed me when I woke up this morning so I had a moan.
mespilus
If you're going to make a visualization of the European Union, of course the UK won't be in it. So why include the UK? Or not the hundreds of other countries who are also not in it? If you're interested in the UK's ties to Europe I've seen other visualisations that try to show more, such as:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Supranational_European_Bodies-en.svg/800px-Supranational_European_Bodies-en.svg.png
And of course, there is the eu-uk "trade and cooperation" agreement, which seems relevant but not included.