The British Government And The European Union

The British voters have spoken on the June 23 referendum that they want their country out of the European Union. The leave side has prevailed with 52 percent voters supporting Brexit, or Britain 's exit, while the remain side getting 48 percent. Some of the political and economic impacts have been already felt in the United Kingdom and registered in Europe and across the world. The others will come as political and economic uncertainties continue.

Brexit has caused a divide amongst the UK population, with 52 to 48 percent in favor of leaving. “Take back control” has been at the forefront of the Brexiter’s campaign, some arguing the UK Parliament had lost its power when it passed the European Communities Act of 1972.

January 1st ,1973 is the day the UK became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC), (BBC.com, 1973). Which then at November 1st, 1993 became a pillar of the European Union (EU) as it is known today. The EU intends to achieve economic coordination and benefits among its members by changing regulations and laws concerning employment, EU budget, immigration, education, and culture. And Introducing agreements like free trade. Brexit is the Act of the UK leaving the EU. A referendum, which is a popular vote that aims to resolve a political issue, was made on 26th of June 2016. The UK has voted to leave the EU by 51.9% to 48.1%. This decision can have immense impact on both the UK and EU since many laws and regulations

Currently the government is deeply divided on the issue. The Labour Party is against the exit, while the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats support a British exit or a "Brexit". Even though the two main parties are wrestling control, The United Kingdom Independence Party, or UKIP, has won the sweeping majority of the seats in the European Parliament. As a result of this election the UKIP, according to the Guardian will be the influential party in Britain as they now control the European Parliaments, and since they control the seats, a Brexit will now be impossible to avoid in the European arena (Harris). According to Tim Oliver 's paper "Europe without Britain", Mr Oliver says that the only way for Britain to leave the EU the government needs to negotiate a way out as the Britain and the EU need to change their regulations to its own as their no longer need to conform to each other 's rules (Oliver 12). So what Mr Oliver is saying is that it is easy to withdraw from EU membership. All the countries need to do is to set a referendum to let the people decide.

Britain withdrawing the European Union has always been an ongoing discussion, one of the many goals pursued by some British political parties, along with groups of people and individuals. Leaving the European Union is a right that every country that is part of the Treaty on the European Union has (Article 50 of the treaty), and this is what the Conservative political parties that proposed the referendum are triggering to impulse a faster withdraw from the EU; specially the new prime minister Theresa May. There had been another referendum in 1975, but it resulted in

The UK government has worked hard to build up relationships across the EU. Let’s imagine the case made that, if the eurozone become a club within a club, UK’s natural place is as leader of the "outs" (the 10 states that have not joined the euro).

It might at first seem that Tony Blair gave unconditional support to European integration including political integration. Yet he was not content with the current pace of the European integration, which benefits the EU’s founding members rather than Britain. He stated in the same speech that the reason of the EU Constitution’s rejection in France and the Netherlands was the mismatch between the political and economic sides of European

Countries band together to promote trade, defend human rights, protect the environment and repel threats. They sign treaties and join international groups, and each time they do, they give up a bit of independence. That happened in a big way with the creation of the European Union, a free-trade zone and global political force forged from the fractious states of Europe. The question always was, could this extraordinary experiment hold together? The people of the United Kingdom gave their answer in a June referendum, shocking the world by voting to leave the bloc they'd joined in 1973. The way many Britons saw it, the EU was expensive, out of touch and a source of uncontrolled immigration. They chose what's become known as Brexit. Seeing that

The Brexit referendum has been a very controversial topic for the past 6 months. The referendum option surfaced due to the changes happening in the European Union as an organization. The European Union (EU), formerly known as the European Coal and Steel Communities (ECSC), is originally created under the vision of creating a trading agreement which ease the transaction between the members. However, the EU now not only creates a single-market system to ease the trading between members, but also holds power over the member’s government, parliament, and court. Before the crisis in 2008 which is caused by EU’s single-market currency, the Euro, the political impact caused by EU’s membership

The Leave voters argued these institutions not only no longer serve a purpose but also take control away from individual countries. The EU forces every nation state to adopt the same law policy and every law and policy made has to go through a shared decision making process. The Britons want to make its own decisions and to be responsible to lead their motherland to wherever they want. Abandoning the EU is a way for them to retain control over their fates.

The majority voted for leave, but a lot of the citizens will not leave the EU and especially not the single market. The prostates for leaving the EU are that the nation will get more control over the rules. If UK leave EU will the power of economics, immigrations and a lot of more debates will be settle in the nation instead of in the EU commission.

While many Brits believe leaving the union will give back hope to Britain as a country that the EU had taken away, there remain several issues from this vote that have created great uncertainty in Britain and in the world at large. First, the memorandum is being challenged in court, because it should have been an act of parliament. This will delay the Prime Minister’s initiation of the Article 50 process that parts Britten from the EU. Second, Britten is divided over the result; those who voted against leaving (the urban elite and younger workers) feel betrayed by the older workers who they

On Thursday, June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union and voted to whether or not to leave the European Union. This June 2016 referendum, which is most commonly known as “Brexit,” had the largest voter turnout in the United Kingdom since the 1992 General Election, roughly 33.5 million voters. The referendum resulted fifty-two percent in favor of leaving the European Union. The separation process is difficult. By just agreeing to the negotiations to separate from the European Union, there has been significant political and economic impacts affecting the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. The day following the vote that favored leaving the European Union, the Pound, Britain’s currency, went from $1.50 to $1.28, the lowest it’s been in over three decades (Kottasova). In an effort to not deal with the EU negotiations, David Cameron, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, resigned from his position on July 13th, effectively ending his six year holding on the position. Brexit is an example of when nationalism and frustration mix together and motivates a society to make a decision possible which was unforeseeable prior. It can be deduced that the three contributing factors to the success of the Brexit vote are Economics, Nationalism, and Political Elitism. Understanding the history of the relationships between the European Union, political parties in the United Kingdom, and the citizen of the United Kingdom.

In the United Kingdom, it seems an ever-increasing proportion of the population are becoming eurosceptic. Euroscepticism in the UK is the distrust and scepticism of the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union and is considered a controversial and important concept in British Politics. This increase in Euroscepticism in the UK has contributed to an EU referendum on the 23rd June 2016, during which the United Kingdom will either decide to continue as a member state or to leave the European Union. Euroscepticism within the United Kingdom is an increasingly relevant topic. I am going to explore why Euroscepticism is on the rise in the United Kingdom and what those contributing factors are. Firstly, I will clarify the history of the relationship between the UK and the EU, and how Euroscepticism is not a new phenomenon. I will then explain what the contributing factors to rising Euroscepticism in the UK are in the following order; the importance of Britain’s sovereignty and independence, the Eurosceptic nature of the British media, increasing immigration issues and terrorism threats, and the rise of anti-European political parties.

European Union is remains one of unique and controversial organisation in nowadays which symbolise the association of European countries with shared sovereignty over socialism and imperial ambitions. President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy once sad that: “The age of the nation state is over and the idea that countries can stand alone is an ‘illusion’ and a ‘lie’” (Martin D., 2010). Nigel Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party claims the opposite:”We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free”(BrainyQuate, 2014). Opinion about European Union are very divided, part of society who are support the monetary and security policy and other growing part which Eurosceptical and who believes that this kind of policies not just undermining the sovereignty of the state but also destroying the national entity. In this work will be analysed the influence of European Membership of the sovereignty of Great Britain and to what extend it has influence on the state.