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We're citizens of the EEA now!

  • 08-05-2021 03:23PM
    #1
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Having occasion to review a HMRS document on Social Security Abroad this morning I was amused to find this bit of tom foolery!

    It's seems they have decided to try and avoid the EU word, just like using Eire rather than Ireland... on page two they have started just referring to the EEA rather than the usual EU/EEA/CH and helpfully provide a list of countries which includes the all of the EU countries plus Switzerland.

    Of course it starts to come apart fairly quickly, so they have to add footnotes:
    *Switzerland is not a member of the EEA but has applied the EC regulations on social security since 1 June 2002.
    ** Ireland is an EEA country, but if you go to Ireland and you are not covered by the Withdrawal Agreement, refer to the section on Reciprocal agreement countries.

    Is it even correct? The EEA is an agreement between EFTA members and the EU and it signed by the individual states of the EU, but if it is individual state membership, then perhaps the UK is still in there and BREXIT is still not done :):):)


Comments

  • #2
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,367 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    EU appears in the document about eight times. No sign of Eire there.


  • #3
    bigar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    Ireland is part of the EU and the EU is part of the EAA. In a roundabout way they are correct. The EU signed in name of all the members so there was no signing of each EU country. It did need to first be ratified by each country's parliament before it was valid.

    I overheard a conversation a few weeks ago between two Brits where one was convinced that the UK may have left the EU but that they are still part of the EEA.


  • #4
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,957 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    They are perfectly correct. The EEA is the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.


  • #5
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    EU appears in the document about eight times. No sign of Eire there.


    I'm just being sarcastic, they often substitute Eire for Ireland as well.


  • #6
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,367 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    They're as bad as Sinn Féin, with their North of Ireland.


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  • #7
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    They're as bad as Sinn Féin, with their North of Ireland.




    I used to work for a company at one stage were one of the owners would review the incoming mail each morning, anything with a return address containing the words 'Londonderry' or 'Northern Ireland' he shredded without even opening them.


    When it was the other owner, he let everything through. So you regularly getting letters complaint about your failure to respond to the letter they sent you the week before.


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