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[sinkov]

These trading blocs make every country within them relevant on the world stage.

This is true of EU countries, with Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland being the leading lights.

The US-Mexico-Canada deal means that they are all relevant on the world stage.

The Eurasian Economic Union is an economic union of states located in Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Central Asia including Russia.

And the biggest bloc of the lot is the newly formed Asia-Pacific Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which includes China, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and ten other SE Asian countries.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54949260

Plenty more trading blocs around the world.

As a result, all these countries are punching above theirs weights by working in partnership instead of competition with a common goal.

The UK is bucking the trend and has decided to go it alone, hoping for a favorable trade deal from...someone. We have lost a hell of a lot of influence as a result.

I'm sure they are mightily impressed with your analysis in Luxembourg tonight 59, and in Austria, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and all the other tiny, insignificant (with all due respect to them) EU countries that will become more relevant than the UK on the world stage on January 1st, when we've left the the EU, although I expect it will come as something of a surprise to them. Not to mention all the other tiny insignificant countries in their various trading blocs that will also have suddenly become more important than us overnight on the 31st December/1st January. Any road, if you're right and we will become such a tiny player on the world stage, we can scrap that foreign aid budget altogether, they should be sending it to us shouldn't they ?

You're a cough-drop 59, have you been celebrating the fact that we held City to five, or do you always get rat-arsed on a Saturday night ?

[1959_60]

Hey, you better not diss Malta Mon Ami.

You better not make a Maltese Cross.

[sinkov]

Hey, you better not diss Malta Mon Ami.

You better not make a Maltese Cross.

I have nothing against Malta 59, my nephew goes there every year for his holidays, won't go anywhare else, and he speaks very highly of Malta and it's people.