101 Amazing Facts about Brexit

Jack Goldstein

Description

On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. This excellent book guides the reader through what Brexit actually means, explaining everything from the history of the EU and the terminology being used through to a who's who of the key players around the negotiating table, verifiable facts and figures, interesting trivia about Europe and much more. So if you want to know what Article 50 means, understand the difference between the European Council and the Council of the European Union or discover the truth about the permitted bend of a European banana in a well-organised and easy-to-follow way, then this is the perfect book for you!

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 06 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785386602
• Langue: English

Extrait

101 Amazing Facts about Brexit
...and the European Union
Jack Goldstein




First published in 2017 by
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Introduction
On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. This excellent book guides the reader through what Brexit actually means, explaining everything from the history of the EU and the terminology being used through to a who’s who of the key players around the negotiating table, verifiable facts and figures, interesting trivia about Europe and much more. So if you want to know what Article 50 means, understand the difference between the European Council and the Council of the European Union or discover the truth about the permitted bend of a European banana in a well-organised and easy-to-follow way, then this is the perfect book for you!
This book is written with the intention of being objective and non-partisan; the author’s aim is purely to provide information to the reader about the process of Brexit itself. All facts and figures used within have been verified using multiple independent sources.



What is Brexit? Brexit is the word that has been coined to explain the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s withdrawal from the European Union. It is a portmanteau of the words Britain and e xit . Over the last decade or so, the UK faced a growing trend of Euroscepticism . A number of perceived negatives of being a member of the EU became part of the public consciousness - these included many different issues from fishing rights and farm subsidies to immigration and the imposition of laws. The growing of frustration with Europe from some quarters of the UK public saw somewhat of a rise of interest in parties to the right of the mainstream, a prominent one being UKIP - the UK Independence Party. Perhaps in response to this shift in the public’s potential voting behaviour and under pressure from a number of conservative MPs, in 2013 then Prime Minister David Cameron announced that should his party win the next general election (scheduled to be held in 2015) then a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU would be held before the end of 2017. Part of the promise to hold a referendum included a period of time that was given for the UK to attempt to negotiate a ‘better deal’ with the EU in the hope that this would resolve the issues at the forefront of the public consciousness. The result of these negotiations was announced in February 2016; supporters were positive about the deal, whereas critics suggested nothing much had changed. On the 22 nd of February that year, David Cameron announced that the referendum would be held on the 23 rd June, and explained that should the people choose a parting of the ways from Europe, he would expect the process to formally withdraw (Article 50) to be triggered immediately afterwards. The referendum was to take the form of a simple ‘in/out’ vote - with all eligible people within the UK given a basic choice of whether to remain within or to leave the European Union. The referendum was chosen to be decided on a simple majority verdict; there was no higher barrier to exit, such as the requirement of a 60% majority to make a change from the current position as had been used in other countries and about other matters. Quite simply, whatever the majority of people voted for, even if that majority were just one single vote, that would be the decision. On the 23 rd of June 2016 the referendum was held, and as the votes were counted over the following hours it became clear that despite predictions and polls signifying a narrow but clear victory for the remain camp, the people had actually voted for the UK to leave the European Union. Brexit , as this withdrawal process became known, ‘officially’ began on the 29 th of March 2017, when a letter was handed to Donald Tusk, the President of the EU Council, by the UK Ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow. The letter formally triggered Article 50, the process by which an EU member state could unilaterally leave the organisation.



Brexit Buzzwords Remain/Leave: The UK has been a member of the European Union since 1973. The question that started the momentum which ended up with Brexit