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Support for EU within EU is growing since the war in Ukraine and has gone to overdrive since Trump 2.0. No current political party except for fringe parties in any EU state advocates for exiting the EU or ending the four freedoms. It’s reasonable to say that yes, EU citizens do approve of freedom of movement in EU. They probably do want to limit freedom of non-EU citizens though…

… which is exactly why the EU would terminate agreements with Switzerland if we start first. And why it would make political sense. They made that quite clear with the UK.



> Support for EU within EU is growing since the war in Ukraine

I believe you. But hard numbers?

> No current political party except for fringe parties in any EU state advocates for exiting the EU or ending the four freedoms

Eh, there seems to be massive demand for modifying either freedom of movement or the context around it.

> They made that quite clear with the UK

The UK invoked Article 50. That wouldn’t happen here.


There is no demand for modifying freedom of movement within EU. It’s not even a topic in most EU countries.

What IS a topic, is preventing non-EU migration, and that has broad support and slowly all parties are moving in that direction.

And we are NOT EU. But for now, they basically go „yes yes, but we think of you as EU because we are so tightly connected“.

So what do you expect to happen if we push the point and make them treat us as non-EU?


> There is no demand for modifying freedom of movement within EU

Again, based on what polling?

> what do you expect to happen if we push the point and make them treat us as non-EU?

I frankly don't expect the EU to be unreasonably spiteful. (And for the record, I don’t think the EU was spiteful with the UK.)


> Again, based on what polling?

Do you have evidence/polling to suggest otherwise?




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