The European Islamic Union, to join, TOO EASY, to get out, THAT ya gotta FIGHT FOR!

United Islamic Kingdom. 🤣 Allahu Akbar.

*JOINING THE EU* (bit more complicated):

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/07/26/how-exactly-do-countries-join-the-eu/

"On average, it’s taken about nine years for each of the 21 current members that underwent the accession process to join the EU."

Turkey/Türkiye applied for association with the then EEC in 1959, got an association agreement in 1963, then applied for full membership in 1987. Declared official candidate for full membership only in 1999, and didn't begin EU accession negotiations til 2005. Twenty years (plus) and still waiting... Talks have stalled. May never happen until/if they meet the requirements.

(North) Macedonia applied in 2004. Negotiations began in 2022.

Montenegro applied in 2008. Negotiations in 2012.

Albania applied in April 2009. Negotiations in 2022.

Serbia applied in Dec 2009. Negotiations in 2014.

Bosnia and Herzegovina applied in 2016. Negotiations in 2024.

Ukraine applied in Feb 2022. Negotiations in 2024.

Moldova applied in March 2022. Negotiations in 2024.

Georgia applied in March 2022. Candidate status in Dec 2023, but negotiations not begun yet.

Kosovo applied in Dec 2022. Negotiations not begun yet (no candidate status yet).

*LEAVING THE EU* (bit easier):

Greenland:
Joined as part of Denmark. Denmark applied in 1961. Vetoed. Reapplied and joined EEC in 1973 along with UK and Ireland.

Advisory referendum to leave the EEC in 1982 over fishing rights. Left in 1985. Now classed as OCT (Overseas Countries and Territories). Still has free movement with EU as it is autonomous and no longer an EU member, but still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, so Greenlanders are still EU citizens by extension because they’re also Danish citizens.

UK:
Applied to join EEC in 1961 & 1967. Vetoed twice by France. Applied again 1972. Finally joined in 1973.

Advisory referendum to leave EU in 2016. Triggered Article 50 in March 2017. Left Jan 2020.

NB Article 50 (the clause that lets you leave the EU) was actually written by a British diplomat, Lord John Kerr, in 2007 (came into force in 2009 in Treaty of Lisbon), who is a remainer and has remarked that it was still reversible even after leave negotiations began.

In Kerr’s words (interview with Politico magazine in 2017):
“I feel very sad about the UK using it.” “I didn’t think that the United Kingdom would use it.”

PS If I'm off on any of the dates, etc, feel free to fact-check and I'll happily update them. 🙏

WOW, now that's detailed. The thing is how they punish members leaving it. When most of these countries joined, I doubt they had any idea they had to open their borders to Islam. At least Sweden has their own military in fighting to retake the country.

Yes, I had to do a bit of Googling, so if any of the details are not quite right, that's my bad.

Tbf, only 2 countries have ever left (Greenland and UK). And then you have countries like Norway and Switzerland that aren't members but have their own bespoke deals and various levels of integration and access to the EU such as the Single Market and freedom of movement. I'm curious about the punishments you've mentioned for countries that leave. UK has lost access to a lot of schemes and programmes and mutual agreements such as on sharing intelligence, but that was already accepted by leave voters as the price of leaving.

(If you're not a member, you don't have those "privileges".) I'm not aware the EU has put up significant trade barriers with the UK like Trump has done, or even desires to because it would arguably harm them too, other than the tariffs that apply by default to any non-member. The UK government also negotiated their terms in the TCA (Trade and Cooperation Agreement) they signed in 2021, and opted for a less closely-aligned arrangement to start with out of various possible scenarios (and which current PM Starmer has recently started slightly softening, which is being hotly debated right now).

I'm not quite sure about the opening the borders to Islam thing. 🤔 If I'm not mistaken, the majority of Muslims (or their descendants) in the UK have roots in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc) and there is a sizeable minority of Muslims with Arab or African roots. But those are separate to the EU, and mostly from ex-British colonies/Commonwealth countries rather than EU countries. EU immigration included a percentage of Muslims, yes, but I think that was a minority of the total. Immigration from Commonwealth countries (and net immigration in general) has actually increased quite significantly post Brexit, while it's dropped off from EU countries, as was to be expected.

There is still the ongoing "migrant crisis" which is a problem that requires a solution for all involved. However, irregular arrivals (including Channel crossings) make up a small percentage of total net UK migration (around 5-7%). ~40K out of ~700K+ total net in 2024.

As for Sweden having a religious civil war, well, let's hope it doesn't ever come to that.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2024/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2024#how-many-people-were-detected-arriving-by-small-boats

Mate sadly so very true about Muslims born in these countries, sadly tho whats happened was that the European Islamic Nations demanded that they share out the illegal immigrants. This I believe was the spark that set off the UIK. Although tragically the invasion of Muslims has made life, particularly for women, unbearable, because Muslims generally believe that women are not much above the levels of dogs and now they expect European women to become like Muslim women. Sadly unless these countries grow a set, in the end it will lead to civil War, with those wanting to protect Little Ones and women vs the Muslims and Woke!