THE BRITISH’S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION - IN THE CONTEXT OF BREXIT -

Abstract

We enrol our approach in the context of activating Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, in which United Kingdom expressed its clear and firm intention to leave the European Union.

Britain’s relations with the European Union have had a difficult path from the start. Since 1957, the UK refused to join the EU founding group, and later was twice refused its membership requests. The Common-Law leadership position offered to the UK, compared to other states, a privileged status, and yet this status did not bring the desired benefits to the six European states that created the EU.

In the context created by Brexit, the most important message is related to the lack of clarity and predictability in all areas of social life, both in the UK and within the European Union.

It is argued that, following the enlargement to the East of the EU, the British have witnessed a migration of East Europeans, which has led to employment and the creation of a real estate crisis. Withdrawal from the EU is just as spectacular and “original” as joining the European Community space.