Here’s a useful web site: Type in your UK post code to see interesting EU supported projects near you. https://www.myeu.uk
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Why claims about a ‘WTO Article 24’ interim agreement are a red herring
Some supporters of “hard” Brexit are talking about WTO Article 24 as if they knew what they are talking about. They don’t. Peter Ungphakorn does. Here’s a useful article by him.
What good is the EU?
There is so much valuable information available about the EU. I wish I’d known about this before the 2016 referendum. Those of us who wanted to remain in the EU were complacent, didn’t believe we would vote to leave. The remain campaign was mostly negative, and was often dismissed as “Project Fear”. A positive campaign on the benefits of the EU would have been harder to dismiss so easily. If there is a referendum in 2019 on the terms of withdrawal with the option to remain, here is some useful information for positive campaigning.
UK, EU & commercial fishing
Claims sometimes appear on social media that “the EU won’t let UK fishers catch fish in UK waters”. The true story is only slightly longer:
- Each EU country was given a quota of fish of different fish species that can be caught & landed. This is to make sure there are some fish left for our grandchildren.
- The quotas are a commodity that can be traded.
- The UK government sold UK quotas to UK fishers.
- Some of these fishers sold the quotas on for a profit.
- Some of the people buying the UK quotas were citizens of other EU countries.
- The UK government is the only one in the EU to allow quotas to be sold to other EU countries.
So the problem with UK fishers not being able to catch fish in EU waters has been caused by the UK government allowing quotas to be sold outside the UK. An example of the EU being blamed for a problem caused by the UK’s government.
It should be noted that the quotas are subject to international property law, and so post Brexit, the UK government could not deny the owners of those quotas access to UK waters.