Concur. No reason why U.K. can’t have bilateral agreements with every EU member nation. The argument that European Economy can’t survive without being ONE “nation” economically is ridiculous. That argument is for to promote Globalism.
Actually, it does make a lot of sense for Europe to form as one country. Copy the US Constitution, and go from there. Just keep it more federated like we’re supposed to be. Actually, I think Europe would be better at this than we are, as their states would guard their sovereignty a lot better than ours have!
The UK can have bilateral agreements with each country but that would take a lot of time and also smaller countries such as Latvia or Estonia or Malta would be disadvantaged in any such negotiations.
Imagine if every Canadian province had to negotiate a separate trade agreement with every other province. That would take time and effort.
Now also
1. There isn’t a “European economy” - the individual countries set their own economic policies.
2. They are not one nation economically - they only commonly pool together on trade deals.
3. Each country has a different tax structure, different budget plans, different goals, taxes, rebates etc.
The different countries can easily “survive” - what the confederation does is allow them to thrive and also to reduce the multiplication of agreements