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I often wondered why Luxembourg, the country with the highest GDP per Capita in the EU...and probably in the world, is not willing to leave the EU. Nothing would prevent it from becoming the full tax haven this country has always dreamt to be, like other wealthy and EU-independant small-sized States (Switzerland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra...).
EU would still be their biggest business partners, because closed borders never stop an open market.
But I think the answer lies elsewhere...Luxembourg has always been one of the most enthusiastic EU's funding members. Travel to Luxembourg and you will meet one of the most genuine, categorical and assertive European core identity.
Perhaps this Europhilia has security reasons: Luxembourg still bears in mind that tragic day of May 1940, when hundred of kilometers of German Panzers on their way to France invaded Luxembourg (Case Yellow). Luxembourg, with only a few dozen police officers to oppose them, quickly surrendered.
That's certainly the reason why Luxembourg is the least Eurosceptic of all EU-members.
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See Brexit. And this is another reason why I think Sweden has potential to abandon EU.
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