12/11/2023 0 Comments Civilization 4 vassal state![]() If we take seriously the idea of Western citizenship, which involves more than mere equality, neither the UK nor Europe can afford to be complacent in the wake of the emergence of what to all intents and purposes will be a “G3 World”-a world dominated by the political, cyber-military, and economic clout of China, Russia, and the USA The claim that the Jersey and Norway Options will reduce UK to a Vassal State of the EU are, in certain respects, true. This paper argues that the Hard Brexiters are right to warn that Soft Brexit involves a form of vassalage. To Hard Brexiters, these softer options involve a betrayal of the will of the people, who voted, so they maintain, to take back control of laws, borders, and all financial contributions to the EU budget. These proposals include both the so-called Jersey Option, which envisages a UK that remains within the Single Market (and thus under EU laws and ECJ rulings) for goods and agricultural products, and the so-called Norway Option, which envisages the UK joining Norway and others in EFTA and thereby signing-up to the EEA relationship with the EU. This all or nothing conception of sovereignty is thought to exclude a variety of the different Soft Brexit proposals currently under discussion. ![]() Those who use it have in mind a fully-sovereign UK able to make and break whatever treaty arrangements it sees fit.
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