Why Did The Uk Want To Join The European Union

Being in the European Union means being a bit less British or French or Italian and being a bit more European. Therefore, the EU tried to tell people that sovereignty is not a good thing when coming into the EU. This is the main reason for which the UK did not want to join the EU at first because it did not want to lose its sovereignty. It ended up joining and has been part of it for the past 44 years but it has now decided to leave. Boris Johnson stated that it is not the British that have changed, but the EU and that the British are witnessing a loss of sovereignty and the confiscation of the powers that should belong to the people. The many EU standards and regulations imposed made the people very unhappy. For example, the maximum suction level of a vacuum cleaner or that a child under the age of 8 is not allowed to blow into a balloon. People feel that such details should be left for national or even local decision making.
The British did not join the Schengen agreement but they still had to change

Between 1990 and 2009, the Schengen agreements and the adoption of the euro made the EU more integrated as a whole. However, the UK never agreed to them because they never wanted to lose their borders and their currency. They never followed the rules completely because they knew that if they did, they would lose too much of their independence. The UK, the second power of the continent has clearly not always followed the rules and has always wanted to keep its sovereignty and so the Brexit debate is not a recent subject. This situation is starting to get serious because many people are starting to protest because of the negative influence of the EU on their lives. Many people are saying that the European institutions are starting to take their sovereignty and identity and that the EU has held back Britain’s economy by stopping Britain from negotiating its own trade deals with other countries outside of the