Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician known for his support of 'Nexit', now prefers to stay in the EU due to the negative impact of Brexit on the UK's economy.
When I met the Dutch politician Geert Wilders years ago, he was set on ‘ Nexit ’. Now he too would rather stay in the EU; supply lines for imports once regarded as routine are disrupted or discontinued altogether; staff shortages owing to new restrictions on travel and employment of our fellow Europeans are hurting the hospitality trade in what we used to boast about as our “service economy”.
Apart from the commercial opportunities of a resumption of membership of the EU, strategic considerations may come to the fore In my opinion, such protestations must be a holding operation until, one hopes, this miserable gang of Tories are thrown out and sensible relations with the rest ofThere are those who worry that we may well be on the verge of a third world war. As Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, has recently said: “Recent events may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since world war two. We should not take them lightly.
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