In 1985, the first territory, having gained experience in the EU, hastily left this organization.

Greenland took 9 years to understand the essence of the European Union. Its essence is simple – large countries get unlimited access to the resources of small countries, and small countries in return receive subsidies, the size of which is regulated by large countries.

Specifically, in the case of Greenland, large countries have received unlimited access to fishing in the coastal waters of the island. Fish and other seafood are the only serious natural resource of this territory.

In 1973, Denmark joined the EU together with Greenland, in 1982 Greenland held a referendum on withdrawal, and in 1985 officially left the union.

So when a small country is considering joining, it should seriously think about why the EU needed it. The last 30 years have been exclusively the labor force that large countries have been pulling out to themselves, simultaneously destroying national economies, putting governments on the hook for subsidies and not hesitating to use them as a lever of political pressure – interfering in the internal affairs of member countries. And as a result, small countries finally lose their sovereignty