Britain’s many secret enemies revealed at last after a shock
index displayed the majority EU nations that are fully ready to punish the UK
for voting to leave the EU. The index also revealed Britain’s real friends in
the EU
Top in the list of countries that want to see the UK suffer
is France, which is assigned 32.5% in the index.
The index also affirms the rigid position of France against
Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, following President Francois Hollande’s
demand asking the UK to pay a divorce bill of £50 billion before any negotiation
on trade can take place.
The shock index was prepared by Economist Intelligence Unit
analysts, which revealed the position of the remaining 27 EU nations. And
further divided each country into the following three groups which includes “hard-core”,
“hard” and “soft”.
Bulgaria and Romania were placed in the “hard-core” section,
over concerns about free movement and the budget.
While Angela Merkel’s Germany was also seen as a “hard-core”
country over its fears for the future of the EU.
While Sweden and Denmark are placed under the “soft”
category, as these countries share the same view with the UK concerning the EU’s
trade and regulations. Among them are Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland
According to sources, the reason for the ‘”soft” stance is
due to the presence of British troops on the Polish border in an attempt stop
President Vladimir Putin from grabbing more land from Baltic region.
From the result of the analysis, all the EU nations stood
against Britain not paying the huge divorce bill. However, countries most again
the Uk paying an amount lower than what it has been told to pay are Belgium,
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.
Also, none of the nations were in support of the UK ‘cherry
picking’ from the four principles of the EU, though Denmark was seen to be
least worried about that.
Meanwhile, members resolutely against Britain adhering to
just some of the EU principles were Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia and Spain.
Despite all the warning issued by EU leaders that no Britain
should not go into any individual deal with any member states, some of the EU
countries are seeking to maintain trade and security relationships with the UK.
In all, none of the countries stood against low or no trade
barriers between the EU and the UK. While nine countries were said to be
seeking to maintain trade relationships with the UK. They are Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden.
Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland,
Romania and Sweden wanted to sustain defence ties, according to the region.
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