Saying Yes to Europe
For more than 40 years, the UK has played a major role in shaping the course of European integration, while transforming itself into one of the world's most competitive economies. A vote in June to leave the EU risks rapidly undoing both successes.
STOCKHOLM – In 1963, French President Charles de Gaulle stunned the United Kingdom by rejecting its application to join the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union. The logic behind de Gaulle’s famous “non” was simple: Britain was not sufficiently European.