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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:19pm

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:19pm

Mags44 wrote on Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:05pm:

Third country: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/54152583

Thanks for sending this. V informative & much appreciated but I still don't get how the UK is a 3rd country & not a 2nd country? 

All I can see is the U.K. & the E.U.  or, if you like, the UK & Spain or the UK & any other EU country but, like I said before,  if the EU is not a country but an entity then where does "3rd" actually come from? Why not 2nd?  Where is the second country?  What's the sequence? I'm not being deliberately argumentative but genuinely puzzled. 

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:45pm

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:45pm

ann75 wrote on Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:19pm:

Thanks for sending this. V informative & much appreciated but I still don't get how the UK is a 3rd country & not a 2nd country? 

All I can see is the U.K. & the E.U.  or, if you like, the UK & Spain or the UK & any other EU country but, like I said before,  if the EU is not a country but an entity then where does "3rd" actually come from? Why not 2nd?  Where is the second country?  What's th...

...e sequence? I'm not being deliberately argumentative but genuinely puzzled. 

Surely this means that the first country is the one dealing with the situation, i.e. Spain. Second countries would be those that belong the the EU/Schengen or one of the coountires with whom Spain has agreements. Third countries are everyone else!

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:36am

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:36am

At last! an explanation that makes sense & why am I not surprised that you came up trump's with it? Of course! This has been evading me for so long. I'm thrilled to have that off my mind, thank you so much. Don't know why I didn't think of it myself - I guess I'm not as good a lateral thinker as I thought I was.

My sincere thanks to you Mags - yet again. 

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