Brexit Background
In 1975 the Labor government held a referendum on if Britain must leave what was then recognized as the European Economic Community, the ancestor to the European Union. The U.K. has not been a participant to the Treaty of Rome that created the European Economic Community in 1957 and has seen two efforts to join. In 1963 and in 1976, refused by the French President Charles de Gaulle before it was finally being recognized in 1973 after de Gaulle’s tenure […]