The UKIP runs on getting out of the EU. While this is a popular prospect amongst many in the UK, what does this mean?
No nation has ever left the EU, so again, what does this mean? The EU is not one unifying document. The basis for the EU started in the 1950’s with different treaties and agreements between European nations. How far back does this ‘leaving’ the EU go?
One of the positive results of the EU for the UK, is the prestige and political power the UK has as a leading member of the EU, that it would not have otherwise. The UK has an economic advantage over other members in the EU, as all business is conducted in English.
I did a study abroad program a few years ago for my M.B.A in the UK and France. We discussed this situation with a professor who worked for the EU. He said, “Is the EU in a crisis? Yes, but that is the natural state for the EU”.
Britain is at a crossroads with regards to the EU. The choice isn’t between maintaining the status quo and leaving, it is between becoming an isolated holdout in an otherwise fully integrated and sovereign superstate, or leaving. Any influence we might have had in the EU as it once was will vanish unless we are prepared to be subsumed by the collective. Britain can salvage its influence and its sovereignty by leaving th EU.
The EU is Germany.