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It's not and that's fine, but it's very much part of the European economic area, and we have a great relationship as well as a lot of alignments with standards and so on. The EU wouldn't have no issues taking notes from the Swiss.
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Switzerland is not part of the European economic area, aka EEA.
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It formally isn't but for (almost) all intents and purposes it is.
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While it's not part of the EU as a member, Switzerland is quite literally in the EU.
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You can escape Switzerland by going straight up into space. It's only "in" the EU in 2 dimensions, maybe 2.5 since you can't dig your way out.
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Ah, that's what they're building the power plants for. Blasting things into space.
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Just the opposite. It's literally not in the EU. It's literally in Europe but not in the EU.
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I like that you ignore that “in” means “inside” in one sentence and then use that exact meaning of the word in the following sentence
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OP was making a geometric observation.
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By that light, the UK is still in the EU. I bet they would disagree though.
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