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Alexander Stubb: “The original decision for us to join the union in 1995 in a…”

Featuring: Alexander Stubb, National Coalition | President of Finland | International

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Published | Video Starts at 10:08

Sense that we are in the euro opt outs. Exactly. We don't, you know, we're in the euro and we don't have any derogations. And I think that The original decision for us to join the union in 1995 in a referendum was based on security. that we didn't want to talk about it at the time. You know, we never wanted to be alone again. So, so we did that. (10:08–10:15)

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Asserts that Finland's decision to join the EU in 1995 was primarily for security reasons.

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