The conflict in Ukraine is named as one of the reasons for the UK's possible exit from the EU
Columnist Financial Times Philip Stevens called the conflict in Ukraine one of the reasons that will influence the positive choice of the British in voting in the referendum on the country's exit from the European Union in 2017.
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The war in Ukraine, the Greek default and the massive flow of refugees into the EU are the three main reasons why, according to Philip Stevens, the British may abandon EU membership.
“The upcoming referendum on Britain's place in Europe invites a choice between an inevitably uncomfortable future and the comforting nostalgia of a more predictable past,” Stevens writes. “This clash of realism with emotion sets out the search for security and prosperity in a world that no longer belongs to the time when Britain set the global rules.”
Stevens notes that before starting the referendum, Cameron will try to negotiate a privileged position for the UK in the EU. The British Prime Minister insists on restricting movement between the UK and other EU countries, that is, in fact, on the formation of a new reformed union and reformatting of the Schengen zone, which will no longer be fully Schengen. One way or another, this will be a different European Union, which Ukraine aspired to join, the conflict in which Stevens’ publication named one of the compelling arguments in the Downing Street government’s pressure on Brussels and Angela Merkel.
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