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There are few issues in modern political life that generate more passionate feelings than the UK's membership in the European Union. It has split parties and caused voters to switch allegiances at elections. The stakes have now been raised even further by the proposed European constitution, the rejection of which is seen by those who have been critical of the European project as the last chance to regain sovereignty as an independent, self-governing democracy. Opinion polls show the majority of the British people to have doubts about the constitution. However, views are still divided on whether or not the UK should leave the EU altogether. In this pamphlet two authors, both critical of the current EU, put the case for and against withdrawal. For Stephen Pollard, the constitution represents the last gasp of the 'Old Europe,' written by 'the archetypal Old Europe politician, Giscard D'Estaing,' centralized, federalist and inefficient. A 'No' vote in the promised referendum would send a shock to the heart of the EU forcing it to become 'more market-flexible, politically loose and sovereignty-respecting.' For Lord Pearson, the whole project has already gone too far for that. With or wi

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Author

Malcolm Pearson; Stephen Pollard; Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson Pearson of Rannoch; Pearson of Rannoch

Publisher

CIVITAS: Institute for the Study of Civil Society

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903386408

Category

politics

Subjects

Economics, Social Science, Social Sciences

Updated

2026-03-25