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Not all of them. 6 East European coutries aren't EU or EEA member states, therefore free movement doesn't apply to them.

Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kosovo
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia

And that person's details hadn't been entered on the Shengen Information System database. If it had, he'd likely have been refused entry to the UK, or monitored.

Doesn't that multi-culturalism include EU nationals?

Option 2 isn't factually accurate. If we remain a member of the EU, it will be with the rebate, opt-outs and vetoes we currently have.

Being a member but losing the rebate, opt-outs and vetoes we currently have would only happen if we left the EU, then decided to apply to rejoin as either an EU or EEA member.

Oh, so immigrants shouldn't be allowed to manage funds. Quick, send that f-ing Canadian back where he came from. He shouldn't be running the Bank of England.......

While we're at it, can we send any foreign restaurant managers and chefs back too, in case they influence our taste buds....

Actually, only the President of the USA is legally required to be born in America. And yes, Puerto Rico is a US territory.

Though Senator Ted Cruz was a Presidential candidate last year, and he was born in Canada.

It'd be a miracle if pregnancy could occur from being shafted from behind. And it's not going to be enjoyable without lots of lubricant. p

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Also Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.

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It is required to be VP as well and I'm sure I remember a few other positions that only US born nationals could take.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura...citizen_clause

I know you have to be a USC for 9 years before you can become a Senator.

Not IMHO, no.

I did personally feel that Carney's appointment represented a conflict of interest.

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Does Russia really count considering that it stretches all the way from Europe to Alaska?

I have been to parts of Hokkaido where Russia is the nearest neighbouring country.

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If Cyprus can be an EU member and Turkey can potentially apply for membership, then I think we can count Russia, since most of their population lives east of the Urals.

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Turkey is never getting into the EU. They've been dangling that carrot for so long that not even the Turks themselves believe that it will happen anymore.

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That's a given. Though, Cyprus is often thought of as being part of Asia rather than Europe and they are an EU member :D.

I still count Russia as European mostly, due to the population distribution.

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There was a lot of stuff to respond to. One longer post made more sense the many shorter ones.

Ted Cruz

It appears that non- US-born nationals can also become President.

The U.S. Constitution provides as follows:

Article II Section 1 Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Amendment XIV Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Would you prefer overzealous, or a breach in immigration? And what's inhuman about it?

If the queues are too long at UK immigration, that's down to Border Force staff scheduling or Home Office recruitment.

Surinder Singh is a legally-valid judgement by a UK court about the rights of family members of British (and other EU) nationals. The EEA family Permit is a UK Home Office entry visa.

Neither are loopholes.

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I think most Russians would probably agree with you although a couple of Russia's most populated cities are in the Far East and neighbour China and North Korea. The majority of people are in St Petersburg and Moscow though which is why Russia is often lumped under the European continental umbrella.

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I didn't mean those, I mean the airport security. AFAIK this is the only major country in the world that outsources airport security to private security contractors. They like to think of themselves as an equivalent of the TSA but in actual fact they are anything but that.

The long lines at UK passport control don't bother me all that much.

The media disagree.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38597384

Fortunately Brexit will probably kill both anyway though.

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Thanks. I forgot those.

Yet this was a big part of Vote Leave's campaign.

Leave Talks Turkey

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There really is no true way to define Russia, since both are too narrow. One could say they are culturally slightly more European and obviously Western Russia contains the majority of the population, but in terms of area Russia dominates Asia with relatively little territory east of the Urals.

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Those people were talking bollocks. Turkish accession has been 'on the table' since before the UK was a member and it will probably remain that way long after Britain has left.

I've said before on here that I have a lot of respect for Turkey and Istanbul is my favourite European city. In many ways the EU can be blamed for the rise of Erdogan and a return from open secularism to right-wing Islamism in modern Turkey because the Turkish people feel as though the EU has turned their back on them and I don't think they are being entirely paranoid.

Turkish accession could actually aid the EU after Brexit by bringing another major NATO power into the organisation but in reality it is unlikely to happen.

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It is definitely one of the more interesting countries that I have visited. Terrifying but interesting.

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Surinder Singh case was heard in the ECJ.