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Originally Posted by Bulair
What are the prospects of a country outside the EU?Agriculture?
I'm not refering to countries like Switzerland or Norway.
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Before becoming a full member of the EU, Austria was a member of EFTA, the
European Free Trade Area. I believe that there are still some countries under that treaty, like Norway and Switzerland. Something along those lines might be a prospect.
Agriculture is not a prospect inside or outside the EU if you are in Europe. One of the funny aspects of the EU is that they have been destroying Agriculture in Europe by unprotecting agricultural production within the borders of the union and lowering tariffs to products coming from non European countries like Morocco.
With their policies, in the future we will have to rely on food imports from outside Europe as Agriculture is a sector that is being abandoned due to a strong lack of protectionism by the EU.
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