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These will be matters for the UK government to determine. The idea of Brexit is to repatriate such matters to the UK and not abrogate the responsibility for them to a foreign bureaucracy. You obviously trust the EU to act more in your interests than you do an elected UK government. Unfortunately 17.4m people disagreed with that stance. The trouble is that along with all the things you like about the EU there are enormous numbers of far more important issues they determine which many people don't like.Yes, but what about zero-hours contracts, the EU Working Time Directive, ECJ cases on 'self-employed' taxi drivers etc.? An at least partial ban on zero-hours contracts is likely going to coming into force soon if one is honest about it.
I'm curious to see how long it will take the telecoms giants to re-introduce roaming charges?
I'm hopeful that we will do the same as Switzerland and stay 'aligned', but only time will tell.
It's unlikely, unless their electorate capitulates, that Switzerland will stay aligned with much at all in the not too distant future. The EU does not like the current arrangement where Switzerland complies with the EU on matters it agrees with and does not comply on matters that it does not. The EU has already taken steps to "unalign" Switzerland's Stock Market with those of EU members:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-s...m-pain-for-swiss-stock-exchange-idUKKCN1VQ2FG
This follows the breakdown of talks on a "comprehensive framework" which the EU is insisting must replace the current SwissU relationship. As is not uncommon, the EU's answer to countries failing to fall into line with their requirements is punishment. The UK can look forward to plenty of this.