EU: getting in easy, getting out - not

  • 2003-05-01
  • J. Michael Lyons
RIGALawmakers and bureaucrats across Europe have concentrated for the last several years on getting more countries into the European Union. Now they're spending time devising a way for countries to get out."It's not as if we just want to try the EU out, and if we don't like it leave," said Andris Kesteris, Latvia's chief EU negotiator. "But there should be a clear picture in place of how a country [can leave]."There are currently no rules in place governing how a country leaves the EU.Only one political entity - Greenland - has ever left the EU. Greenland left in 1985 because of the wide ga...
 
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