• Allero@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    So are many parts of the Netherlands or France, for example

    Local residents are not Europeans, they don’t necessarily even use euro despite their mainland countries doing just that, but they are residents of the European Union.

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      True, but ‘being in the EU’ is actually not that simple, and these territories have special statuses and and are not part of the ‘core EU’. Here is a simple visualization