Significance of International Trade (Part 2)

Part 1 

This drift of anti-European party once (in 1960) Europhile mostly be explained by a combination of factors, ranging from the Thatcherite legacy to the supposed superiority of one model against the British liberal bureaucratic rules imposed by the European Commission and countries "statist" as France. Bureaucracy and protectionism would prevent Member States enjoy the economic benefits of globalization, seen as an opportunity and not a threat, unlike the European Union. 

The conservative argument against the euro, repeated at length columns since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis, is also based on the idea that a monetary union can be achieved without fiscal union, so without political union, and that they are inherently unacceptable as questioning the sovereignty of national parliaments and thus the very existence of the nation. It is based on a public opinion finally become increasingly hostile to the EU in general, especially in the wake of the wave of immigration from the former Eastern Europe since the 2004 enlargement . In the minds of many Britons, the EU is responsible for the opening of borders, the British government has since 2004, while France and Germany have provided a transitional period, which was followed an influx of Eastern European workers. Poles, Czechs and other Eastern Europeans are often perceived as responsible for wage cuts and shortages of housing, places of schools and hospitals - a theme which feeds right-wing conservative party and the himself had used during election campaigns in 2005 and 2010. On the EU budget for 2012, the government outvoted in the European Council agreed an increase of 2.9% when he was campaigning for the gel.

But it is the question of the response to the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area and the conflict between London and its EU partners crystallized. As a first step, the government took care to stand back internal debates in the euro area and to minimize its financial commitment. On the economic point of view, the calculation might seem strange, since the United Kingdom has much interest that the euro crisis is resolved that countries that have adopted the single currency because of the interdependence of economies Europe. But politically, especially vis-à-vis their own party, it was impossible for Cameron and Hague to engage openly in aid to the euro zone. Thus, if the government has indirectly participated in the first aid plan for Greece in June 2010 through its contribution to the IMF, he denounced the British participation in the first fund European Financial Stability signed by the previous government. It has provided assistance to Ireland in autumn 2010, but the name of the bilateral cooperation and traditional ties between the two countries, not European solidarity. It had then constantly repeating that there would be more British involvement in the rescue of the euro.