r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Sep 14 '26

Considering none of them have an economy larger than £200 billion it’ll be amazing to see how they handle being on par with… checks notes… Uzbekistan

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u/Equivalent_Bet856 Sep 14 '26

Republic of Ireland doing quite well this last century.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Sep 14 '26

Aye, being the vessel the American tech companies have used to seep their rot through Europe with low tax really has paid off nicely

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u/YouFnDruggo Sep 14 '26

Tbf not having 9/10ths of our annual revenue taken by a foreign power has been the biggest factor. Also having our own money as well as tons of grants from the EU to invest in basic infrastructure that for some reason was not built before has been great.