What are the advantages and disadvantages of the UK being in the EU?
So you emigrated to a country that is more pro-European than the UK, which has the Euro and lost control of its monetary policy? Nothing worse than a uninformed fascist The EU is the highest parliament in the UK. Under the 1972 European Communities act, parliament must pass laws according to European law. On a day to day basis this means that the UK works closer to Europe. Under the treaty of Rome (which established the EU), goods, services and people are free to move without taxation or restriction (some borders don’t even require a passport!). This means that the EU trades with each other first rather than the US and China, creating more jobs and keeping more in jobs. There are also huge subsidies and grants by the EU, farmers get a lot from the CAP (common agriculture policy), this causes over production of meat which is why meat is so cheap on the market. It also gives grants such as objective 1 to help high unemployed areas of the country start their own businesses to employ peopl