The Treaty Of The United Kingdom From The European Union

Millions of Patriots had risked their lives for many decades to fight for their independence to get away from the tyrannical Great Britain who tended to abused their powers. Patriots were fed up with the British government who had overwhelmed colonist to pay for an absurd amount of taxes which was a reason why Americans gain their independence in the first place and created a new nation. However, what they did not expect from their new nation was that it resembled to the Great Britain. The new nation was now facing similar problems that the people experienced in Great Britain. One example was when state legislatures began increasing taxes in order, to pay off the large debts after the war. The confederation had many strength and weakness.

Since 1973 when the British first joined the European Union their membership has been a controversial issue. When conservatives in the United Kingdom won the general election in 2015, their election manifesto promised to hold a referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should stay or leave the European Union. The referendum also referred to as “Brexit” is scheduled to take place by the end of 2017. The United Kingdom initially joined the union to be part of the common market for the purpose of trade and to develop international relationships. The main argument for those who are pro Brexit is that being part of the European Union is too costly for the United Kingdom, that the EU has grown to large, has interfered to far into

EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development (European Commission, 2015). Countries accede to the union by becoming party to the founding treaties, thereby subjecting themselves to the privileges and obligations of EU membership.

As part of the EU, the UK is in the single market, this enabling tariff- free trade between members. As you can see, from the table on the right some other countries have their own agreements and this can give an idea of what is to come for the UK.

The future of the United Kingdom has never been so uncertain. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is keeping the promise he made in 2015, to hold a referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union. The referendum will take hold on Thursday, 23rd of June of this year. But the results of the last opinion poll held on April 12th to 14th, show, that the British public is fairly evenly split, as 40% want to remain in the European Union and 39% want to leave. The members of the United Kingdom Independence party and other British keen to leave the Union, argue that the UK and its policy makers are being held back and manipulated by the EU, who make too many rules for business, immigration laws and charges billions of pounds a year in membership fees for little in return and undermining the British interests. However, the UK’s investment in the membership and acceptance of rules of the EU, gives the UK far more benefits by allowing it to grow academically, economically and ensures safety for all its citizens and is therefore better off staying a member of this peacemaking Union.

Britain’s vote to exit from the European Union, termed as “Brexit”, took the world by surprise as polls during the campaigns have shown that 80% of voters will vote to remain in the EU (Erlanger 2016). The Brexit was led by Justice Minister Michael Gove and former Mayor of London Borris Johnson. The main issues were in regards to the nation’s sovereignty and immigration. Proponents believed that the EU had changed its bureaucracy in the past few decades which diminished British sovereignty and influence. Brexit was also favorable to other nation’s parties who were anti Europe , for instance, the French National Front leader, Marine Le Pen (Erlanger, 2016). Opponents of Brexit argued to stay within the EU as it would allow countries of similar minds to have a stronger influence in the world and warned that it would be economically devastating if voters decided

The European Union was established to support economic collaboration between countries by the signing of the Treaty of Rome . This Treaty proposed the idea of the four basic rights – the free movement of goods, services , workers and capital. As provided, the free movement of workers is a basic right within the European Union, and it has subsequently developed into the free movement of persons. The concept of discrimination has arisen due to numerous cases, and the Maastricht Treaty has addressed this concept. Furthermore, the Lisbon Treaty has consolidated the aforementioned issues and contains a set of rules on the issue of workers within the EU.

Britain took a giant leap of faith when they decided to leave the European Union. Some might look at this decision being unprecedented as a good thing; but that’s exactly why it’s a bad thing. Britain needs the EU to survive, the same way that the EU needs Britain to thrive the way they do. The British exit from the European Union, or “Brexit” in short, is the name for the recently passed referendum involving the UK’s decision to part ways with the European Union. The vote took place on June 23, 2016 and passed. The decision to leave the European Union won by 52% to 48%. The vote was very close which raises an ample amount of concern. Contrary to what those 52% of voters believe, the decision to leave the EU was bad in many ways. Brexit now has the potential to yield devastating outcomes on the UK and every nation attached to them.

Brexit is a term commonly known as Britain exiting from European Union membership. The historic referendum on the UK and EU membership held on June 23, 2016. Although majority of Londoner wanted to stay with EU, 52 percent voters voted to support the leave campaign to leave European Union. Since World War two the world saw a rising trend of economic development and globalization in Europe. Brexit has ended this trend. Since United

A constitution is often defined as a set of rules set to regulate the system of government within a state. Professor King in his Hamlyn Lecture defined the constitution as, “the set of the most important rules that regulate the relations among the different parts of the government of a given country and also the relations between the different parts of the government and the people of the country”. Unlike some other democratic countries, the United Kingdom does not have a single written document entitled “The Constitution” but rather it has what is referred to as an ‘unwritten constitution’.

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

Regulations have binding legal force throughout every Member State and enter into force on a set date in all the Member States. Directives lay down certain results that must be achieved but each Member State is free to decide how to transpose directives into national laws. A directive is a legal act of the European Union, which requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result. It can be distinguished from regulations which are self-executing and do not require any implementing measures.

On January 1st 2007 while the world was celebrating New Year’s Day, twenty five state members of the European Union (EU) welcomed almost 30 million people from Romania and Bulgaria to the union. Massive celebrations were held in Romania and Bulgaria to mark this accession. This historic event also marked the fifth enlargement of the EU and the peaceful reunification of Western and Eastern European countries since the end of the Cold War. The path to membership was long and sometimes challenging but in the end these two countries arrived to the road of Europe and the future.

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.

On 23 June 2016, The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum took place in the UK and Gibraltar. The result was decided by 33,577,342 eligible voters. 17,410,742 voters voted to leave the European Union; 16,141,241 voters voted to remain in the European Union. On 24 June 2016, Jenny Watson, the Chief Counting Officer, announced the final result of the referendum—leave. This was a breaking news, and it caused a global attention. Countless information and news were reporting by social media and networking. David William Donald Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom issued a statement in 10 Downing Street that he will resign in October, and he would continue to service to the British public in the coming weeks and month. He hopes that the new Prime Minister leads the UK toward a right direction under the new situation. Meanwhile, the global economy and international currency were affected by the referendum. Global stock markets were falling down drastically and the British Pound did drop from $1.50 to $1.35, which was the lowest value since the 1980s. Investors also lost heavily. For example, many financial analysts think that like Warren Buffett and other successful investors probably lost billions of dollars on average after the vote. In April 1975, there was a similar referendum held in the UK. At that time, 67.2 percent of voters approved that the UK ought to stay in the European Union. After forty-one years, the result is different. The desire to