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 [...]
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
Over the last ten years, British trade with the world outside the EU has grown significantly faster than British trade with the EU. This is true of both exports and imports. So what „benefit‰ is the UK deriving from membership of the EUÊs Single Market ? By Download Briefing Note: BN#68 Growth Exports Imports
Yet EU regulation is imposed on the more than ninety per cent of the economy which is NOT involved in exporting to the EU. By Download Briefing Note: BN#67 Prop UK economy Expto EU
