Because they made a deal when they joined, same with Denmark. Difference between them is that the Danish Crown is tied to the Euro, which the Swedish is not.

Anyone who wants to join the EU now will have to convert to the Euro.

Yep, you don't get this chance often, and fearmongering goes far and can blow up the whole thing, just look at what happened in Iceland.

But not under the old rules and exceptions. This is why it will never happen, UK exceptionalism is as bad as the Unites States.

It goes both ways, but obviously the UK needs the EU more than the other way around. It would be very arrogant to think otherwise; just pull the stats.

Macron is telling whatever he wants because his presidential term ends in 6 months.

Generally looking very positive for him at the moment. Way more popular than the outgoing PM. Has since said lots of things other politicians would avoid: Nationalising infrastructure, Fixing Social Care, Rejoining the EU, reforming the electoral system. It's early days, probably not possible for him to do everything he talks about. Generally a solid social democratic outlook.

Neither am I, but even mentioning rejoining the EU when far right is stronger than ever is pretty bold I'd say, there's a reason PMs before him have avoided saying it.

He had a bunch of good policies, got into office and instantly fired pro palestine people, went back on his policies, basically summed up he was like "oh this is harder than i thought it would be". Unlike mamdani for example who promised and delivered on what he could(of course there are things that are harder to achieve and things that aee easier), burnham basically just gave up on doing anything like every other fucking politician. He isnt especially bad, hes kinda meh, but why i had such a bad reaction to him is that i expected him to be an actually good change like mamdani.