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What agreement? To join the EU you must change a lot of internal structures in your own government first, a lor of regulations must be changed to align with EU versions, laws have to be changed, even basics, like drivers licences and other documents.

Why spend millions if not billions on all that, impose laws that are maybe bad for normal people, and then figure out that people don't actually want to join the EU?

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You would hold the confirmatory vote before you do all of that. You'd go to the EU, agree what joining looks like, and before doing any of the actual implementation you hold the vote

The joining process is already precisely defined.

Then what are the people voting to negotiate? They should just be presented with an in/out vote

The process is defined, not the final agreement.

Which is what would be right now? The final agreement is of course signed after all that restructuring took place.

No, you would sign the agreement before doing all the restructuring. Doing it first would be silly

Except that the EU wouldn't let that happen. You need to do the restructuring before you become an EU member, the other way around would be rather silly for the EU.

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