The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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