It wouldn't make much difference to the EU but it would make a helluva difference to Britain
Should Britain face reality and give up Gibraltar and the Falklands which are getting increasingly unsustainable
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It wouldn't make much difference to the EU but it would make a helluva difference to Britain
Should Britain face reality and give up Gibraltar and the Falklands which are getting increasingly unsustainable
Only trouble with that is, that Britain surely has a duty to the people that live there who class themselves as "British" in broad terms. If we give them up do we say they have to move or is it that they have to become Spanish speakers and put up with Argentina & Spain force ably moving them on? Its not as simple as just saying they are miles away lets not bother.
If there was nothing much on them and no inhabitants then yes I would absolutely agree.
On the flip side, do you think it is silly how much focus Spain & Argentina put on trying to get small pieces of land back? I mean why would any country bother with the land mass we are talking about.
Less silly than how much UK needed to have and keep such small spots. Concern about British citizens is a silly excuse. Then all the colonies should have stayed colonies. Population may be relocated or may stay and continue to speak their language ( right in the middle of Romania there are 2 counties whose inhabitants refuse to speak Romanian, matter of fact I don't think they even know it :p. ).
These small spots may have strategical, military or economic importance. For instance, the Serpent Island, which previously Romania has been divested by the USSR and who lately has been an apple of discord in relations between Romania and the Ukraine. It's a rock of 0,17 square km. with no inhabitants but the seabed nearby is a substantial deposit of natural gases and oil and it's a strategical point near the Danube Delta.
What's the right altitude we should have at work? To behave the way you don't bother the coworkers or to think that everybody should feel comfortable and tolerate things that really bother you ? ( example: is it OK to eat garlic smelling food in an office? Some may like it and they have to eat anyway, so if it smells it's OK, we'll open the window even if there are -10 °C outside. Or I like garlic but if I eat it it will smell like hell and it's in bad taste to force the rest of people to bear it )?
I guess it comes down to the culture of the organisation you are in and who sets the ground rules. It can be hard to change the culture and most of the time you are forced to live with the norms that have been set. (cripes I sound like one of my Management text books :))
What business cultures would make you want to join a company?
I don't see why the UK would need or want to throw the residents of the Falklands into the the den of a country less prosperous, less democratic and culturally alien? The Falklenders are as British it gets yet have the GDP per capita higher than that in the UK. Giving up on them would be an act of stupidity.
Speaking of business cultures, the American culture is the only one I am familiar with from the inside. What I heard of the German, French or Belarusian corporate cultures does not sound very attractive to me.
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