student fees<\/a> and how much the U.K. should pay to take part in an arms investment package.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWe need a U.K. voice in Europe. We really miss you guys,\u201d Stubb said. \u201cI should probably express my view that it took you seven years to negotiate yourselves out of the EU, it will take you seven years to regret it, and then seven years to come back in. I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stubb said British membership of the EU\u2019s customs union should be possible, alongside participation in the single market. Red lines during years of Brexit negotiations meant the U.K. left both structures five years ago, under a bare bones deal that Boris Johnson negotiated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be super pragmatic,\u201d he said, instead of Europeans thinking they should \u201ccontinue to punish\u201d the U.K. for leaving the bloc. \u201cGet out of the mindset that the U.K. should not be a part of the customs union, or the U.K. should not be a part of the internal market. Think about a flexible way of dealing with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
More broadly, Stubb suggested the EU should reform its structures to allow more flexibility in the way member countries work together, and work with states that are not formal members of the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said Iceland is renewing its interest in becoming a member, he\u2019d like to see Norway join the bloc, and he joked to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada should also take a look at EU membership when the pair went running together on Tuesday morning in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think Brexit was a colossal mistake,\u201d said former London student Stubb, who has a British wife and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36750,824,934,626,19603,140,3374,59,57,58,791,2453,146,465,420,631,467,2363,50,4160,1353,86,426,56,54,55,570],"class_list":["post-481088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-alexander-stubb","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-canada","tag-customs-union","tag-defense","tag-finland","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-iceland","tag-innovation","tag-intelligence","tag-investment","tag-keir-starmer","tag-mark-carney","tag-markets","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-single-market","tag-technology","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}