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20% of Five Eyes is in Europe. That's one good reason.

I guess that is one upside of Brexit.

20% of Five Eyes, but the UK only represents 1 out of 28 countries in the EU which is 3.57%, yet they should dictate what everybody else does?

edit: Why the downvotes? As an EU citizen, I'm directly affected by this, and I very much do not like the idea of the EU towing the Five Eyes line to further fascilitate US foreign policy interests.

We very much would like to make our own decisions in our own interests and not have all our policies decided and forced upon us by the biggest brother on the planet.

The EU is built around veto powers and allowing a single country to dictate things that are very important to them.

That's a tad bit simplified, in reality, single countries can be overruled, it just doesn't happen that often [0], but it still happens.

In that context, I doubt the EU is gonna let itself get dictated what to do by the UK, which is in the process of leaving said EU. It would be like eating your cake and still having it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bvj3o7/eu_legislati...

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