I mean the UK isnt part of the EU and there are significant differences in law and trade stuff so its not a clear cut answer.
- Feddit.uk is not just used by brits
  
  Yeah but the community is called buyeuropean not buyEU
  
  This is true. !buyeuropean@feddit.uk is for whole Europe and not just EU (the community logo is bit misleading atm).
  It's of course ok to have a more EU specific community but I personally think Lemmy isn't big enough to have so much fragmentation and incredibly specific communities (yet).
  But we can link to !buyfromeu@feddit.org from our community if OP decides that there is need for EU specific buy-community. Fediverse is free and both communities share the same goal: support closer economies!
  
  If the decision is not yet made: I think us Europeans, whether EU or not, should stick together and focus on c/buyeuropean over c/buyfromeu. For one thing, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Non-EU countries on the Balkans are the most in need. For another thing, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland have serious high-tech goods and services to offer – and breaking the near-monopoly of the US in tech is arguably the most important thing to work toward right now. Similar with the UK, and while it is somewhat iffy with regard to privacy regulations and because of its Special Relationship with the United States, the Starmer government is the most pro-European government the UK has had in years if not decades, which is something we should cherish, especially now that the US have become an antagonist. Not to forget the enormous support the UK has given to Ukraine.
  
  Agreed!
  We at !buyeuropean@feddit.uk decided to keep the community since it also already has nice posts from e.g. Ukraine and Norway and for the same reasons you mentioned.
  Again, it's totally ok to have both communities and we link to !buyfromeu@feddit.org but sadly it seems OP hasn't been online since they went to sleep and haven't been able to contact them about possibly linking to us as well.
  But yeah, all good!
  
  The gold stars on a blue background flag is orginally the flag of the Council of Europe of which every country in Europe besides Russia, Belarus and Kosovo are members. That organization is still around today.
  
  Did not know that, interesting!

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