After 47 years to get the Uk out of the European project. Not all of the Brits will be well after midnight in a jubilant mood with their Union Jack parachute and hang out. Differences of opinion as to the relationship with the EU and the cast from the very beginning, a great shadow, in the British political arena.

After the war, in Europe there are voices to be so close together that it is a new conflict on this scale would be unthinkable, it would be. The British prime minister Winston Churchill welcomed the idea of a “kind of United States of Europe” in it.

But as the European Coal and Steel Community was set up in 1952 and kept the British from outside. The European Economic Community (EEC, 1957) showed them no love.

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a Few years later, that sentiment is reversed. The Uk economy is kwakkelde, while the French and German economies have rapidly recovered from the war. The UK has had, in 1961, of an application to become a member of the european economic community, however, the French president, Charles de Gaulle airport, said there was a ” veto on that.

The Conservative prime minister, Edward Heath, helped his country and, in 1973, finally got the EEC from within. The British were in the 1975 referendum on the membership-more than 67 percent of the voters voted for it.

a Four-year Brexit summed up in a eye-catching moments of the First euro-sceptic voices,

you can have An immediate and visible improvement in the British economy have resulted in the EEC’s membership is not on it. During the mid-seventies, the oil crisis, high inflation rate, which were already being stopped and they were power cuts are the order of the day. In those days it was mainly the left-wing Candidate as eurosceptisch, but also the other parties were anti-European to vote on it.

The road towards European integration has led, in the years since the new clashes between Brussels and London. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher negotiated in 1982, a reduction in the Uk’s EU contribution because of countries such as France landbouwsubsidie received.

As it was talked about more integration and a common currency, continued to live together, the line in the sand. In a speech in Bruges in 1988, rejected “a European super-state that is coming from Brussels for a new domination exercise”.

the pro – and anti-Brexitdemonstrant have to share a park bench in central london. (Photo: Reuters)
Uk, but it is not at all < / p> Thatchers successor, John Major, the 1992 signing of the Treaty of Maastricht, the netherlands. The European Union was founded, and the British were involved with a number of uitzonderingsposities: they were, for example, out of the Schengen for the free movement of persons and the common currency.

the Uk’s eurosceptics were a moment prior to the end of the century and, especially, to the ridiculous, from the massive bureaucracy.

the european debt crisis, to fight against the european union took over in 2011, the new budgetteringsregels it. In the UK, said in a veto, but it was ignored. Along with the impact of the crisis itself, that the British eurosceptics a boost. The Conservative prime minister David Cameron promised in 2013 to a Brexit referendum.

With Or Without the EU

“Europe has been a toxic dossier has been in British politics,” wrote historian Vernon Bogdanor of King’s College, London, uk, “not only because it is made for division between the parties, but also the deep divisions within the party.”

“You could say that the fundamental conflict in the post-war British politics is not between left and right, but between those who believe that the future of the UK and in Europe, and those who believe that this is not the case.”

On the 23rd of June, 2016, the British, the European Union and to the left.

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