Will the United Kingdom attempt to rejoin the EU and Greece demand the Elgin Marbles back to let them? [2033]
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In 2016, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union, an event which later became known as Brexit.
- On 2020-1-31, this secession became official.
- In 1812, the British Empire excavated and seized numerous marble sculptures from the Parthenon, first taking them to Malta (at the time a British subject) and then to the UK.
- These statues, called the Elgin Marbles, are currently in the British Museum, alongside other looted colonial wealth, and have been the subject of several demands for repatriation by the Greek Republic, all of which have been summarily refused.
- Between 1991 and 2019, Greece and what is now called North Macedonia were embroiled in a dispute over naming and possible irredentism.
- At the time, North Macedonia was called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRO Macedonia); subsequently, as effective condition of joining NATO, Greece drove the name change.
