Do the UK’s European ties damage its prosperity?

Eurosceptics claim that EU membership has become a major drag on British prosperity. If the country left the EU, they argue, it would be freed of irksome continental influences like regulations and protectionism – and would thus become freer, more prosperous and truer to its globalising nature. In this CER essay, Philip Whyte demonstrates that these claims are profoundly misleading

ESO: Background information: It doesn’t make much sense but I’m a eurofanatic http://www.europeansources.info/record/it-doesnt-make-much-sense-but-im-a-eurofanatic/

ESO: Background information: Leaving Europe would be bad for British business http://www.europeansources.info/record/leaving-europe-would-be-bad-for-british-business/

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