This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 68%. (I'm a bot)
> BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called on European Union leaders to help the U.K. avert a potentially disastrous departure from the economic bloc without an exit deal.
> In a meeting in Brussels, Abe and the EU leaders - European Council chief Donald Tusk and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker - agreed on the importance of free trade and cooperation toward the success of the Group of 20 summit to be held in Osaka in June.
> Abe's Brussels visit follows the April 11 summit in which EU leaders gave Prime Minister Theresa May an additional six months to get U.K. Parliament to endorse the exit terms she struck last year.
> "A no-deal Brexit is what we have to avoid by all means," Abe told a news conference in Brussels, with Tusk and Juncker standing at his side.
> The companies, Abe said, need "Legal stability" as well as transparency ahead. "We strongly hope that it will be possible for Japanese companies to continue" doing business in the United Kingdom, Abe said through an interpreter.
> The EU and Japan "Look forward to intensifying security and defense cooperation in the fields of counterterrorism, cyber and maritime security, and crisis management," Tusk said in the news conference with Abe.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡You have a continent full of countries with vastly different cultures, languages and customs, that have traditionally been at war with one another throughout history and you think turning it into one nation is a good idea? Of course the people in the individual countries aren't cool with it, so you just try to 'integrate' them sneakily through the back door. You have no real solidarity between the countries, a strong divide between the Northern and Southern block of states and everyone basically hates one another and acts like grown-up Mean Girls tropes in suits.
People in Germany or the Netherlands fucking hate Greeks, find the Spanish and Italians lazy fucks and the Scandinavians don't seem to mind handling all the refugees while the Hungarians want none at all. They're constantly fighting among each other, and the European Parliament has no real moral standing among the people of individual member countries who mostly see it as a nuisance.
But somehow, people in power felt it was a good idea to try and turn Europe into one big country? It's such a joke.
From page "36" (page 34 on the PDF)
http://www.kantar.com/public/download/documents/286/Brexit+Barometer+Tables+August+2019.pdf
This shows a narrowing of the gap between the two options.
