The UK's EU Referendum: All You Need to Know

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The UK's EU Referendum: All You Need to Know


What is happening?
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June.

What is a referendum?
A referendum is basically a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part, normally giving a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question. Whichever side gets more than half of all votes cast is considered to have won.

What is the European Union?
The European Union - often known as the EU - is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries. It began after World War Two to foster economic co-operation, with the idea that countries which trade together are more likely to avoid going to war with each other. It has since grown to become a "single market" allowing goods and people to move around, basically as if the member states were one country. It has its own currency, the euro, which is used by 19 of the member countries, its own parliament and it now sets rules in a wide range of areas - including on the environment, transport, consumer rights and even things like mobile phone charges.

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[walter]

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[shikamaru]

I like to use the European Union as an example concerning if the United States is a country or not.

Is the European Union a country or a collection of countries?

Being the United States is a union of states, how is it a single country?

Now, I know that this is a trick question given the difference in how the United States (singular) is treated in public international law and private international law which may add to the confusion.