WHY BRITAIN JOINED THE EU
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
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𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨 - 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟵-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
On D-Day we remember how brave men and women from many allied countries fought the final battles against the Nazis to bring the most brutal world war to an end in Europe.
Peace came at last as a direct result of their enduring efforts. Tens of thousands of lives were tragically and horribly lost in the pursuit of that aim.
But how was lasting peace achieved between European countries that, for centuries, had been more used to resolving their differences through violence, war, and subjugation?
The European Community, established during the post-war years and now called the European Union, played a key role.
Yes, NATO helped to protect us from external threats. But it was the European Union that brought sustained security and peace between its members.
By collaborating and cooperating, in peace and democratically, to decide on the running and future direction of our continent, European countries found and agreed solutions to common problems.
It worked. Never has a shot been fired between EU member states. An amazing achievement, for which the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
So, when people ask, ‘Why was the EU started?’ the answer, first and foremost, was peace. Yes, trade was one of the means, but peace was the primary goal.
And it’s why Britain joined the European Community. To work together, peacefully and democratically, with our European allies to recreate our post-war continent based on democracy, human rights, free market trade and the rule of law.
Did people truly understand this when ticking the ‘Leave’ box in the 2016 referendum?
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→ On D-Day, let’s remember how Europe achieved peace
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨 - 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟵-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
On D-Day we remember how brave men and women from many allied countries fought the final battles against the Nazis to bring the most brutal world war to an end.
Peace came at last as a direct result of their enduring efforts. Tens of thousands of lives were tragically and horribly lost in the pursuit of that aim.
But how was lasting peace achieved between European countries that, for centuries, had been more used to resolving their differences through violence, war, and subjugation?
The European Community, established during the post-war years and now called the European Union, played a key role.
Yes, NATO helped to protect us from external threats. But it was the European Union that brought sustained security and peace between its members.
By collaborating and cooperating, in peace and democratically, to decide on the running and future direction of our continent, European countries found and agreed solutions to common problems.
It worked. Never has a shot been fired between EU member states. An amazing achievement, for which the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
So, when people ask, ‘Why was the EU started?’ the answer, first and foremost, was peace. Yes, trade was one of the means, but peace was the primary goal.
And it’s why Britain joined the European Community. To work together, peacefully and democratically, with our European allies to recreate our post-war continent based on democracy, human rights, free market trade and the rule of law.
Did people truly understand this when ticking the ‘Leave’ box in the 2016 referendum?
Reading the ongoing comments in press, social media etc, and listening to British friends and UK politicians I would say, clearly not. Unfortunately, they still do not understand today.
And does anybody in the UK understand what it takes to apply for membership in EU nowadays?
@@trident6547 Probably not. That's why there needs to be a long-term, high-profile, professional awareness campaign. If we'd had that before the referendum, I believe Brexit would not have happened.
@@trident6547A very very long time.
Shared on Facebook. Excellent video. 🇨🇵🇪🇺
Saw it in my life time but, alas I won't see a return in what time I have left. Nevertheless, to my last breath I will advocate to embrace our fellow Europeans
Well according to Brexiters the UK is not a part of Europe and Brits are not Europeans but something far superior to Europeans.
@@josefinenilsson8059 Yes stupid belong in the same box as supporters of the following European parties Finns party, national rally, AFD, fidesz, brothers of Italy, party for freedom, chega, vox, Sweden democrats to name a few. WE ALL HAVE OUR CROSS TO BEAR!.
In 1975 I voted to remain in the EC and still believe that was the right decision, but it irks me that many pro EU commenters trash the UK prior to joining. Your comments about unemployment being high is incorrect the rate in the early seventies was very low, it rose in the mid/late seventies due to the global recession that ended the post war golden era for most advanced economies, and greatly accelerated due to Thatchers de industrialisation policy. As for being the sick man of Europe that was primary due to our abysmal industrial relations which is a two way street.
A more accurate view of how and why UK joined EEC/EU was given by Professor Piers Ludlow at the London School of Economics:
"Post-war Britain had other priorities and was dismissive of the early integration plans. By the 1960s, however, Britain’s political elite began to regret this choice. The UK’s economic progress outside of the EEC was much less impressive than that of the six founder members. And Britain’s global position seemed to be fading fast as its empire disappeared. It was thus for both economic and geopolitical reasons that the UK changed its mind. In 1973 the Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, took Britain into the EEC.
The crucial Parliamentary votes in 1971-2 were only narrowly won. And in 1975, a new Labour government held a first in/out referendum. This seemed to produce a clear-cut result with 2/3 of the British population voting to stay within the EEC. But the wider argument continued, with Labour fighting the 1983 general election on a platform of withdrawing from the Community. And while Labour would subsequently move towards a pro-European position during the later 1980s and 1990s, this was counterbalanced by the slide of the Conservative Party into ever-stronger Euroscepticism.
In Brussels, successive British governments were meanwhile earning a reputation as awkward partners, often complaining about the club that they had joined. In the 1970s their anger tended to be focused on the Common Agricultural Policy. By the early 1980s they instead centred on the amount that the UK paid into the Community budget. On this the British had a case. But the aggressive manner in which Mrs Thatcher fought ‘to get her money back’ alienated her partners and established a pattern of battling with the rest of the EU that virtually all of her successors have felt obliged to imitate. From the 1990s furthermore the British began to opt out of various major common policies - most notably the Single Currency. Brexit could therefore be presented as just the inevitable divorce at the end of a difficult and stormy marriage."
Yes, but it wasn't all bad. EU member states had high regard for Britain and our membership, and we achieved a lot for the EEC/EU. Margaret Thatcher helped to design and implement the Single Market. I know about this because I was hired by the government as Creative Director to help organise a series of events across the country to explain the new Single Market to businesses. The UK also encouraged and helped to facilitate the joining of former Communist countries. It was not all bad, and there were problems with other members too, which is probably normal for all clubs. For example, Denmark like us demanded an opt-out from the euro, which it still has.
I would argue that the EU has had far bigger problems with member states Hungary, Slovakia and Poland than it ever had with the UK.
And EU leaders have said we'd be welcome back. Last year France and Germany proposed associate EU membership for the UK. Earlier this month, the Commission suggested free movement for young Britons, so that they could once again live, work and study across the EU.
Of course they want us back!
But it was both the Tories and Labour who immediately, without discussion, turned down these overtures from the EU. At that rate, the EU will stop trying. That will be tragic.
We must not stop trying. Our challenge, a huge challenge, is to present the case for EU membership to the British public, so that they will demand the same from our political leaders.
Alongside that, Britain needs deep reforms to make our democracy more robust and fairer. And we also need to show the EU that if we go back into the EU, we'll mean it this time, with overwhelming public support.
The average person in the UK knows very little about how the EU functions.
They're slowly learning, by experience of absence of their own equivalents, that the EU bureaucracy ' faceless, and unelected' might have had something to do with wastewater treatment , water treatment, Birds and Habitats protection, public procurement probity, working time protection, data protection, transportation safety, waste management, migratory fish protection, Shellfishery protection, free movement of people, capital, labour, ......
Hopefully they'll come to learn, in time, that those who freed them from that tyranny, had no intention of enacting any form of effective replacement.
When the UK eventually applies to join the EU it needs to be with an attitude that's very different to that which has often been apparent in the past. This will not be a quick or easy process!
The UK badly needs radical reform for its own sake initially. Ultimately those changes will support a future application to join the EU.
The problem the UK faces is a fight on two fronts: the disintegration of the UK in four parts and the conviction the English are always right.
Without a reasonable plan your country is bound to make the same mistakes over and over again. By my estimation your earliest entry to the EU will be way past my lifetime. I might be alive when Scotland becomes a member, after the reunification of Ireland.
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Good recapture.
But there was a difference in aims as they were written down and as they were lived.
Peace, Prosperity, Security, A Say.
The people wanted Properity and Say.
Peace and Security were the show for others members only.
The English in their majority again want (their own) prosperity only. And so we‘d run in the same nonsense again with the Farages, Trusts, Johnsons of the English world and the English thinking.
No. 20 years minimum.
And depending on whether our fascists in the EU succeed in destroying the EU you will not even want to return.
The eu didn’t help prevent war as it didn’t prevent the conflict in Yugoslavia, it didn’t prevent the conflict in Northern Ireland, it didn’t prevent the invasion of Georgia or the invasion of Ukraine the eu has failed in its duty to prevent war in Europe