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“The UK has consistently held back European integration and as such, held back European business”
General Discussion
Membership of the European Union is a central fact about life in Britain today. ... Yet after more than 25 years in the European Union, it is still the subject of controversy. ... However, as the European Union develops and grows, it is becoming more important to Britain, not less. ...
Britain’s relationship with the European Union has been one of the dominant issues of British politics in the last fifty years. It has also been one of the most divisive. The debate has moved through a number of phases. The British government initially refused
The European Union (EU) consists of a group of countries in Europe, which have decided to join forces for their mutual benefits. The United Kingdom (UK) is a member state of the European Union. UK joined the founding group of six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) in 1973, at the same time as Denmark and Ireland. ... As a direct result of their efforts, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, with Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg also included. Monnet and Schuman had sown the seed from which political integration in Europe was to grow. The success of the ECSC led its members to sign the Rome Treaties in 1957 and thereby form the European Economic Community (EEC), which would remove barriers to trade and services. The EEC generally known as the common market, later became known as the European Community (EC). ... Also, as a result of the Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992, these countries decided to adopt the new title, ‘European Union’.
The main aim of this European Union is to bring about lasting peace and prosperity for all its citizens.
The lifting of trade restrictions between Member States has enabled them to trade freely with each other. This means that each country has the right to move goods, services, people and capital from one Member State to another without restriction, thus strengthening political, economical and cultural links across the EU.
The plans for the future
At Maastricht in 1992, when the Treaty on European Union was completed, it was also decided to hold an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) starting in 1996 in anticipation of the deepening and widening of the EU. In June 1997, a further meeting of Heads of State or Government was called in Amsterdam to discuss how the European Union should progress towards enlargement, particularly in central and eastern Europe. ...
Later, in July 1997, the EU announced proposals to expand the European Union to include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia and Cyprus by the year 2005. ...
Although the UK is a part of the EU, it has consistently held back European integration. ...
The Single European Market
Here I will be explaining the aim objectives of the Single European Market; it is to achieve free movement of goods, people, services and capital. ... It also has plans to abolish any physical, technical and fiscal barriers that may unable free trade within Europe. ...
However there were criticisms of the report, which said the report assumed that all proposals are carried out on time and the World or European economies are not in recession. ... The figures are also said to be very approximate and may be biased since report commissioned by the EC.
After analysing what the Single European Market does it would be fair to suggest that the UK’s main intention of joining the EC was due to economical reasons. The EC had very strong views on the Single European Market (SEM) and the monetary union and aimed to adopt these views into Europe. So it was ideal for the UK to join. ... This was overcome when in the late 70’s as the UK government introduced a free market approach in economic management. ... Trade was also increasing and in 1992 the Single European Market was complete.
So since the 1970’s the UK was growing so the European integration was paying off for the UK and in 1992 all trade barriers were said to be abolished with in the EC. ...
The Single European Market has made trading for the UK easier as customs procedure have been abolished, which was time consuming as well as expensive. ... This all has resulted in better efficiency for the European Union and their businesses.
The UK’s membership in the EU was only for the access into the Single European Market but it also meant that the UK and to harmonise with the rest of the EU and their policies such as social, regional and environmental etc.
Approximate Word count = 3706
Approximate Pages = 14.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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