UK relations with EU are still not clear by Nina Gotzmannova

United Kingdom is not the only monarchy in European Union. But relations this island with EU are very special. They are members of EU since 1973 and play a leading role in EU, but still didn't accept Euro. United Kingdom and Ireland didn't open their borders under the Schengen Agreement and tourist, visitors and businesspeople still need regular visa if they want to come into the country. The polls in UK showed people would like to have a referendum on a new EU contract reforming the EU instituions. The poll was published in Financial Times on Thursday and full 75 percent of those who vote agreed with the referendum. Another poll resulted 69 percent, what is still high. But one of the pollsters, Peter Kellner, told the truth. Maybe the numbers seems high, in fact nobody cares. Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are quite isolated. As a insular nation they mostly care about their local politics and are just careless to all what happens behind the sea. They are sceptical to everything that's not British and the EU is among them. According to Kellner's words Europe is very low on the list of people's priorities. All the hue is made only by British politicians. For example, the Conservative Party tore itself apart in the 1990s because of EU, and now they also called for a referendum. But British Prime Minister probably dissapointed them, he said a strict ‘no' to the idea of a referendum saying the treaty is not a constitution and therefore no reason for people to decide whether they want it or not. He also added that their taxes and foreign policy, the two most precious things for British politicians, will remain unchanged. So no referendum and the Britons can stay in their lethargy and carelessness forever.

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by Nina Gotzmannova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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