2015年2月3日 · Figure 1. Percentage difference between the UK’s GDP per capita and EU founding members’ (EU6) and EU5 (excludes Luxembourg) between 1950 and 2011. Data source: Penn World Tables 8.0. Stockholm and two vetoes. The 1960 Stockholm Treaty launched EFTA.5 Tellingly, in July 1961, the UK opened membership …

2016年6月24日 · Margaret Thatcher wins an EU rebate to recognize how little the UK receives in farm subsidies. 1987 Margaret Thatcher signs the Single European Act, which eventually becomes the world’s largest free trade area.

2014年11月11日 · These are UK jobs providing EU countries with goods and services that they use to produce their own exports. This level of integration varies across the EU, but in each case is significantly higher than for non-EU countries. What is then striking is the comparison between 1995 and 2011. This reveals that the UK’s engagement in EU supply ...

2017年3月13日 · According to the results, one-third (33%) of Britons think that the EU needs the UK more than the UK needs it. Over a quarter (28%) say that the EU and UK need each other equally. Meanwhile, only 17% of the British population think that Britain needs the EU more. Only 8% think that the two don’t need each other at all.

2023年3月7日 · When Britain decided to leave the EU, it raised a question about the status of the land border between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (a member of the EU). As the BBC explains, this is a sensitive topic because of the troubled political history of Northern Ireland. It was feared that introducing customs checks ...

2023年2月1日 · The GDPs of Germany, France and Italy make up more than half of the EU’s entire economic output. The UK, which joined the EU in 1973 and formally left in 2020, would have been the second-largest economy in the region at $3.4 trillion. The IMF has a gloomy outlook for the EU in 2023, anticipating growth of just 0.7%.

2023年11月9日 · The EU is considering postponing tariffs on EV sales between the bloc and its UK neighbour. A 10% tariff is due to enter into force from 1 January for EVs that have substantial parts of their batteries made outside Europe or the UK. A possible one-year delay would give carmakers more time to switch battery suppliers.

2016年8月18日 · Reductions in these numbers may well have ramifications for the future supply of graduates entering the labour market. Second, at the bottom end of the labour market the UK has been increasingly reliant over time – especially since the EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004 – on migrant workers to perform minimum wage jobs.

2023年5月24日 · The UK accounts for about a fifth of EU car exports. Image: Eurostat/ACEA Stellantis – the world's third-biggest carmaker by sales and owner of 14 brands including Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat – says British car plants will close and thousands of jobs will be lost unless the Brexit deal is swiftly renegotiated .

2016年2月22日 · There is support across the continent for the UK to remain in the EU, with 60% of the 28,270 Europeans questioned preferring Britain to stay. Support is strongest in Lithuania and Malta. 73% of those asked in Lithuania were keen for the UK to remain, with Malta returning a similar net score of 71%.