Britain and the European Union

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Britain and the European Union

• What do you mean were Europeans?

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The Single European Act

• Four freedoms all of movement
• goods
• people
• capital
• services

• Requires
• abolition of customs controls
• removal of border controls
• UK thought that as an island this didnt apply
• forgot airports

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Schengen

• If freedom of movement, freedom of criminals
• and how do you control immigration?
• Extradition?
• Rules of admissibility of evidence?

• Schengen Information System
• hot pursuit
• common visas
• identity cards
• Sorry, were British. Were not going to open our
  borders.

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The Single Currency

• Pure Thatcher
• reduce govt borrowing
• reduce public spending
• so why didnt the UK like it?

• Queens head!!!
• Business cycle linked to US not Europe
• London or Frankfurt?
• Hot money and big bang

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QMV and Community matters first pillar

• Council, Commission or parliament?
• Codecision Amsterdam
• Santergate and vetting Commissioners et al
• end to veto
• Changing balance between nation states and
  Community

• Too many Commissioners
• 10 new members coming in not very democratic,
  either
• Germany now huge
• superstate?
• subsidiarity

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Common Foreign and Defence Policy second pillar

• Failure in Bosnia
• US isolationism
• save money re procurement
• save money on diplomats
• speak with one voice
• be more powerful

• Us Brits fight best
• We won the war!!
• No common friends no common foes only common
  interests!!
• Rapid Response Force

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Justice and Home Affairs third pillar

• Where did this come from?
• Organised crime
• drugs
• terrorism
• antiques
• immigration

• Need for common laws
• human rights
• judicial procedures
• England and Wales have different system
• Scotland like North Europe
• Southern Europe changing?

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Enlargement

• Group of Seven promises from 1991
• if East Europe adopts market reforms and
  democracy can join EU
• means CAP must go
• UK likes enlargement
• wider not deeper!

• Is it feasible?
• Where do we stop? Vladivostok?
• East German lesson. Costs more than think
• organised crime
• fraud
• 10 new countries?
• Turkey, Cyprus, Malta

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Enlargement

• Group of Seven promises from 1991
• if East Europe adopts market reforms and
  democracy can join EU
• means CAP must go
• UK likes enlargement
• wider not deeper!

• Is it feasible?
• Where do we stop? Vladivostok?
• East German lesson. Costs more than think
• organised crime
• fraud
• 10 new countries?
• Turkey, Cyprus, Malta

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On to Vladivostok!