Only the USA, Germany & China exported more than the UK in 2009 • According to the IMF, the UK was the fourth-biggest global exporter of Goods, Services, (receipts of) Income & Transfers in 2009. Table 1: Leading Exporting Nations in 2009 Rank Nation Exports $bn [...]
EU lawmaking is a secretive process which neither the UK nor any other member-state is able to influence decisively • 84% of law in EU member-states originates in Brussels1. • Those laws are proposed in secret by the unelected European Commission2, which has the monopoly power of proposing new legislation (neither the EU Council nor the European Parliament [...]
Since 1945, no Western European nation has gone to war with another. This has nothing to do with the European Union. • Between 1945 and the mid-1990s, US, British, French and Soviet forces occupied Germany. The Russians have gone home; but US, British and French forces remain on German soil. • Keeping the peace in Western Europe [...]
The EU Customs Union is a relic from the 1950s. It is redundant. The world beyond the EU, where there are no significant customs unions, has moved on. As part of the EU Customs Union (which also includes a non-EU member, Turkey), the UK does not "own" the customs duties (also known as "tariffs") it charges on [...]
Between 2010 and 2050, while the USA gains 36 million in working-age population, EU-27 loses 54 million By Download Briefing Note: BN#69 EU demographic Winter
