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Will the EU Become Stronger WITHOUT Britain or will it Collapse? – TLDR News

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With the UK and EU continuing to try and negotiate an agreement, it’s worth considering the state Europe is left in once the UK has departed. In this video, we examine how the EU will cope without Britain, and wether things look better or worse for the bloc.

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2 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6/newsid_2499000/2499297.stm
3 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35622105
4 – https://www.france24.com/en/20200518-live-macron-and-merkel-present-joint-covid-19-recovery-plan-for-eu
5 – https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-to-propose-recovery-instrument-of-e750-billion/
6 – https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_940
7 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16104275
8 – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/files/be-heard/eurobarometer/2020/covid19/en-public-opinion-in-the-time-of-covid19-20200616.pdf
9 – https://www.politico.eu/article/commissions-budget-and-recovery-plan-top-5-things-to-watch/
10 – https://www.ft.com/content/add218ac-f63d-4b65-af5c-3c4e9033e015
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13 – https://www.ft.com/content/7faae690-4e65-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5
14 – https://www.ft.com/content/7c47fa9d-6d54-4bde-a1da-2c407a52e471
15 – https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/french-finance-minister-bruno-le-maire-europe-evaded-catastrophe-by-a-hair-s-breadth-a-bc6987c6-7a23-422d-a604-d99c27239dd9
16 – https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/qualified-majority/
17 – https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2020/04/07/brexit-has-complicated-and-isolated-germanys-role-in-the-eu/
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19 – https://www.cer.eu/insights/europe-without-uk-liberated-or-diminished

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  1. @paulsennitt2079

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Eu is nothing without our British money

  2. @ems4884

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    No.

  3. @allegro70

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    No, control of EU is under US hegemony & monetary system. If Germany sinks, better get THE insurance liquidated.

  4. @mrbardel4363

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    No . but it will be stronger than Britain .

  5. @martinneumeyer9282

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    To hell with EU dictatorship!

  6. @Whoami691

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The EU's reaction to brexit always sealed in my mind that it was the right call.

    Rather than look at WHY Britain left, or admit it needs restructuring, it called half the UK xenophobic and the threats began.

    It never once admitted that it might be at fault, or that it needs to rethink it's long term structure. It carried on down the same path like nothing happened.

    Proof, if there was any, that trying to reform the EU is impossible.

  7. @drscopeify4582

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The hair dresser does not need to pay for the recovery? However when you print money (creating debt) you cause inflation so the hair dresser IS PAYING FOR IT. At the end of the day whenever the government spends money the people suffer. If the economy should go down and it stays flat, that is inflation., the bank is obviously hiding that However, inflation is not natural growth, the people aren't making more products or providing more service it is just that everything now costs more. Why is it called INFLATION? Because the economy is being inflated. It is not called growation or profitation it is call INFLATION.

  8. @jollybucket669

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    I think the only thing brexit will do to the EU is create a president that independance from the EU is an option for everyone. Thus it country-exit movements will be around but unless a second country leaves or is kicked out, it will remain a theoretical idea.

  9. @editorrbr2107

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Let’s see what the EU looks like after a decade of places like Greece, Montenegro, Poland, and Hungary tapping the responsible, stable Northern European nations for more and more money, with less and less benefits received.

  10. @agustea09

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Why should Germany take a lead of EU?

  11. @Demonetization_Symbol

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    I don't like the idea of more countries leaving the EU. I think organisations like the EU are a great idea, and they lower tensions at least somewhat. It works towards peace, and I love it. I love the idea. As an American whose country is known for strict border control, the idea of the Schengen Area (or however you spell it) is really appealing to me.

  12. @MirkoskjiVero

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The European Union is an undemocratic supranational organisation that has no interest in the wellness of the population, and just pursues its self preservation and the preservation of failed business and banks. The next big crisis will probably crack it down completely. I would not be surprised if the first to go will be Germans and French. Their central bankers (which in EU are the only entities that matter) are very well aware of the utter shit in which the EU project is, and they will suggest to pull the plug well before it collapses, a behaviour that is compatible with the mercantilistic practices of these governments, who believe that the best way to thrive is by crippling the competition.

  13. @sodthelotayou3712

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    No one else seems to want to leave.

  14. @sionsmedia8249

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    4:05 Roughly the same as what opinion polls were giving Brexit in the UK before the referendum.

  15. @andybray9791

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Hope Ittl collapse one day but by the correct side of populists

  16. @futureminds9742

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    OK GUYS STOP FIGHTING NOW AND LISTEN : i am not a european but now after a zillion videos have understood it well ….. the UK is a strong nation … both in economy and military and also pays huge sums of money to the EU but the UK is bein constantly overlooked by the EU ….. and for the UK it seems like the poor people of south EU who are money recievers often overlook UK and impose there decisions on the UK which is not good and also the politicians of south EU are too corrupt thus the money the riches members pour in them is just being waisted and swallowed by the corrupt politicians of south !! which makes a point for the EU …… but UK also get huge amount trade and jobs from the EU which justifies there payments … so here both the sides are correct in there own right ! there is no single answer and it depends upon your personal ideology .

  17. @ssmfernando

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Now UK can join Africa or Asia…

  18. @Jordan-bg7xc

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Hahaha no

  19. @MiMayonGo

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Bring back cameroon

  20. @vincentmckenna1755

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Europe would be stronger without Brussels

  21. @mascote1253

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Portugal Spain Greece and Italy must be kicked out and tell them to work and pay the bills!!

  22. @krisfinch7131

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    BUY BRITISH !

  23. @christheswiss390

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    Will the EU try to "integrate more deeply", as the ET Framing spin doctors love to call the transition from nation states to a cetralized supranational autocracy, governed through backdoor channel exclusively by France, like it already does today? Of course! It's the wet dream of any French politician to finally have control over Germany, to control the flow of funds from the "unfairly rich" northern EU Members to the latin members that don't like rigid controls and limiting public spending in their own countries.

    Case in point? The French "help" in getting the EU to finally finance states member states directly through the ECB. Oh wait, that's specifically prohibited in the EU conrtracts. But who cares, France is France and the EU court has recently "surprisingly" rubber stamped this financing scheme as juuuust ever so slightly still legal, despite the contracts literally and explcitly prohibiting such financing schemes outright.

    Another one?: The whole dance of the EU and GB around the fishing conundrum as part of the Brexit talks was mainly a problem for the French. Their fishers have been accustomed to fishing in British waters and taking home the loot for free for decades. The King of France was worried that if he could not cherry pick this issue from GB, he could be facing another round of public up-risings in these very poor coastal fishing lands. So this small economic issue became one of the last deciding factors in the Brexit talks. Of course it was down played by the EU negotiator (the ex French foreign minister – what a coincidence!). But if you were watching and listening closely, you knew exactly who was behind all this fishing nonsense worth a paltry 112 mio Euros / year, when the whole Brexit contract was worth 57 billion Euros / year!

    Oh, and another one?: Who was it that had the "sudden idea" to make not one of the officially "campaining" commission members the head of the EU Commission, but a completely failed minister from Germoney, that had literally helped incapacitate one of Nato's most important military forces, while instead focussing on providing diaper tables for female soldiers in her Service and ensuring uniforms that allowed pregnancy wearing, all while admiting to destroying evidence that proved she was breaking the law on multiple counts? Yup, the secret regent of the EU. Of course his "brilliant" idea was first "shared" with the regent from Germoney, and then also rubber stamped by the EU commission, but I think everyone by now knows how the inner circle of the EU works – like the French government. Why? Because it IS the French government.

  24. @christheswiss390

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    You mention Italy in your video and how it might use the Brexit to possibly consider leaving the EU. Since you've made this video, Italy has succeeded in extracting 290 (!) billion Euros from the other EU Members for "helping to transform the Italian economy after the Corona crisis". The metrics used to substantiate these desires were beased soley on economic data from 2015 to 2019 – so they had NOTHING to do with the Corona crisis at all, which escalated in February 2020! Not only has Italy extracted a very clever agreement to get this huge pile of money for nothing, but in addition, it has managed to "convince" the EU that there be no measures or metrics attached to the spending, let alone a plan for what to spend this huge windfall on. My point: Italy has discovered something far better than potentially leaving the EU: just mentioning the possibility of leaving the EU as a bargaining chip to extract all the money it could ever dream of. Italy will NEVER EVER leave the EU voluntarily, as the EU will be funding the Italian early retirements, too high wages, too high public spendings, deeply rooted corruption as well as a far too large public sector for the next 100 years! You have to hand it to the Italians – they sure are clever. And you have to hand it to the paying EU member states – they are so ideologically blinded that they will be throwing good money after bad till Kingdom come – that's collectively pretty stupid!

  25. @simonwiggins8570

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The UK has always been the Eurosceptic voice within the EU, a powerful voice who often spoke up for the smaller nations who could easily be overlooked. The UK ensured the EU commission didn't get ahead of themselves in their superstate plan. However now the UK has left many countries will really notice that strong voice no longer there, and it will really be missed! The UK will also be missed for financial reasons. They contributed at least 11 Billion Euro to the EU every year (that they did not receive back). When the EU next sets their budget and they are missing 55+ billion Euro its a financial hit the likes of France and Germany will have to carry.

  26. @tomzamp8547

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The EU has lost it’s way the main reason the EU was established was for free trade and people moving among the countries without restrictions. Today the EU has become a controlling state and every day that goes by things get worse. That the UK left the EU that is a major step towards the end first the EU lost the 10 billion contributed to the EU by the UK yearly. Second the EU GDP ranking will be going down drastically making a less player in the world. We must not forget Austria, Poland,Hungary all oppose many things the EU tries to impose on the people. Will we be reading very soon that those countries never belonged to the EU too? Also don’t forget Denmark’s referendum to leave but totally ignored another show how the EU respects democratic values. The EU has become or is almost becoming a Chinese style ruling government. In Europe authoritarian regimes last for a short while and the end is near

  27. @kennethphillips4000

    March 3, 2024 at 9:24 am

    The EU will crash and burn lol

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With Russia’s persistent struggles on the frontlines, speculation that Putin could once again call for a mobilisation in order to improve his prospects on the frontlines. But given the major backlash to his previous attempt, will he risk it again?

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1 – https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2026/09/10/putin-dismisses-rumors-of-another-mobilization-as-nonsense-but-can-russia-keep-fighting-without-another-round-of-forced-recruitment
2 – https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/19/russians-leave-before-election-ends-fearing-mobilisation-to-follow
3 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
4 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-18-2026/
5 – https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/04/07/russia-has-shifted-to-a-year-round-conscription-system-here-s-what-that-means-for-the-country-s-young-men
6 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/russia-ukraine-putin-recruiters-mobilisation
7 – https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-we-know-about-north-korean-forces-joining-russias-war-against-ukraine-2026-08-06/
8 – https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/1361/2026/en/ 
9 – https://unn.ua/en/amp/russia-raised-payments-to-millions-but-the-number-of-contract-soldiers-has-decreased
10 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/russia-losing-6000-more-troops-than-it-can-recruit-each-month-in-ukraine-says-west 
11 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/21/should-russia-brace-for-a-new-mobilization-a93256 
12 – https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06/24/something-could-start-as-early-as-october-russian-authorities-are-discussing-a-new-wave-of-mobilization-after-the-state-duma-elections
13 – https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-tests-readiness-for-new-round-of-military-mobilization-87d61b96
14 – https://ua.news/en/world/u-rosiyi-gotuiut-spiski-pratsivnikiv-iz-bronniu-vid-mobilizatsiyi
15 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
16 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-12-2026/
17 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/21/as-fears-of-post-election-mobilization-swirl-russian-activists-prepare-for-the-worst-a93761
18 – https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-13/russia-uses-arrests-and-coercion-to-send-more-recruits-to-the-front-in-ukraine.html
19 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-29-2025/

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl5jeg5r15o
https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russias-wagner-group-mali
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-wagner-mercenary-group-says-it-is-leaving-mali-after-mission-2025-06-06/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malis-army-claims-capture-rebel-stronghold-kidal-2023-11-14/
https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2026-07/west-africa-and-the-sahel-17.php
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/fall-of-northern-mali-jnim-fla-offensive-russia-issp-camara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCG-_I-DYk
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/12/africa/ukraine-russia-drones-mali-libya-intl
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/world/europe/ukraine-air-defense-deal-qatar-saudi-arabia.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-denies-involvement-mali-attack-says-cutting-ties-short-sighted-2024-08-05/
https://adf-magazine.com/2023/12/as-critics-warn-of-blood-gold-mali-signs-deal-with-russia-to-open-refinery/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29106
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/north-african-country-with-6-russian-military-bases-denies-allowing-ukraine-to-use/tkltznz=
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-s-hur-hits-russian-base-in-syria-after-putin-assad-meeting-50439035.html
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Ursula von der Leyen State of the Union speech, proposing associate membership for Canada:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1868 

Macron’s two-tier proposal:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/11/what-do-we-know-about-macron-s-idea-for-a-two-tier-europe 

Merz proposes associate membership for Ukraine:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance 

Albania & Serbia back gradual integration:
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/serbia-and-albania-issue-joint-text-on-eu-accession-without-veto 

Ukraine opposes gradual integration/membership-lite:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-cannot-afford-to-leave-ukraine-trapped-in-the-geopolitical-grey-zone/ 

EU member reservations about Canada associate membership:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-mark-carney-ursula-von-der-leyen-associate-membership-canada/ 
https://www.ft.com/content/7b1a00f1-6842-4f5e-ace4-d6a57e98b21e 

EU is already ad hoc:
https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-the-rise-of-ad-hoc-europe/

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