to think the EU will break apart in the next few years...

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With the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and the popularity of right-wing and Eurosceptic Governments in Italy, Poland, Hungary and possibly Germany, it doesn't look like EU unity will last.

Doesn't it? I think countries will look at us and grip onto the EU.

YANBU
The southern countries like Italy/Spain have anti EU sentiment spreading like wildfire.
If the SE/NE European countries are forced to take in more migrants (if a new quota is set up) I imagine they'll also be kicking off.

Yabu...

A colleague who voted leave told me with great gusto that the EU would be collapsing like a line of dominoes now that the UK was leaving...

No more sign of it happening now than there was back then.

Yeah, doubt it though. ENthusiasm for the EU is greater than ever.

If that was ever a faint possibility, in two years time the EU countries are going to be looking at the UK and thinking 'fark no'

I also think the EU will dissolve in the next decade.

But where will that leave us with Russia and China, and, god forbid, Russia's new puppet, the US?

It depends on how we fair when we leave. If we cope better than anticipated then I don’t think YABU in thinking the other countries will follow suit.

The rest of Europe is watching for sure.

No. I think we are doing a very good job of being a cautionary tale for everyone else.

Given how few net contributors there are and how many countries benefit, I cannot see it happen.

In your dreams may be. In reality, no. Medias in the UK are biased, they like to big up the anti-EU feelings.

I agree. And look forward to it.

Nah. I live in Europe and all around me people are actually uniting in support of the EU.

We live in interesting times as the old saying goes 😳

There will come a point in time where the other EU countries will have to make up the shortfall that the U.K. used to contribute.

Germany / France will not let the EU fail, they have too much to loose.

YABVU, we are the suckers leaving the biggest trading bloc.

I thought I heard France was leaving the EU?

Macron said that France would 'probably vote leave' given the chance. Something like 61% of French people view the EU negatively

I think it will change into a two tier system, a core of Euro countries who want closer intergration and an outer group with looser ties not necessarily tied to the euro.

Wishful thinking, OP...

"Look forward to it" 🙄and the global recession that would follow. Morons.

Some will stick to the EU no matter what, we will not be the only country to leave.

I think that it will struggle on until Germany leaves or it suffers complete economic collapse. Both things look for more probable than they did ten years ago but still unlikely. It most definitely won't break up in the next ten years imo.

I almost hope it does because we could re-form it in a better and more resilient version. THough I wouldn’t want to put other countries through the turmoil.

@madmarchpear why would that cause a global recession? The EU is hardly a major player in the way that America or China are for ecample. Trading with the EU is so difficult that a collapse isire likely to be a trading boost for other countries.

Since Germany and France seem to be planning on throwing Greece and Italy under the bus regarding the immigrants being sent back to protect Merkel, it would no longer surprise me if they did end up leaving too.