EU Flashcards
timeline
1973 - UK joins the EU
1992 - Maastricht treaty - creation of single European market - UK opt out
2000 - Factortame - Merchant Shipping Act 1998 conflicted with EU Common Fisheries Policy - HofL had to suspend the act bc EU law must prevail
2002 - single currency - UK opt out
Eurscepticism
opt-outs - the UK has always been a bit separate from the rest of Europe
EU is not very democratic - the EU Commission which is the executive of the EU is not elected
there is a belief that the UK was paying more than what was benefitting them
- 2017 - £8.9 billion
- 2016 - 43% of British trade was with the EU, valued at £241 billion
the concern that immigrants were taking advantage of the UK welfare system
- 2013-2014 Eu citizens contributed £14.7 billion in tax and receive £2.6 billion in benefits => not true
Immigration
tories - against freedom of movement - want to bring immigration numbers down
Labour - support free movement - pre Brexit wanted to give EU citizens full voting rights
1.32 million British people live in the EU - lack of protection - Lord Poole had urged Braverman to protect UK citizens living abroad and vice versa
181,000 EU citizens are waiting for decisions on their settled status
pre Brexit - 3 million EU citizens lived in the UK
immigration has increased by 24% from last yr (not just EU) - 606,000
current relations
trying to forge closer relations?
- Windsor Framework
- UK to pay France $576 million to combat illegal immigrants
- ministers ditch deadline to scrap EU law
ECJ retains power to make rulings in cases related to how the UK applied EU law before Brexit
- 2023 - £1.7 billion to settle an import fraud case
- similar case regarding chinese imports in 2022
Cost of food - LSE estimates EU food imports have pushed up average household bill by £250
Poll by Focaldata 2023 of 10,000 adults
- 63% believe Brexit has caused more problems that it has solved
- immigration policies have not delivered
- change of opinion in Lincolnshire
