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The agreement is to be approved on the EU side by the Council of the EU, acting by qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. For the agreement to pass the Council of the EU it needs to be approved by at least 72 percent of the continuing member states representing at least 65 percent of their population. [18]
Beyond its anti-immigrant stance, Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has an economic platform that would see Germany leave the European Union as it is today and return to a more ...
Despite the claims by analysts abroad and in Greece [34] that the referendum might open the way for Greece's withdrawal from the Eurozone, and despite polls showing that Greek citizens would prefer keeping the common currency "at all costs," [35] [36] the referendum, conducted on 5 July 2015, returned a result of 61.3% for "No" and 38.7% for "Yes."
During its membership of the European Union, the United Kingdom had five opt-outs from EU legislation (from the Economic and Monetary Union, the area of freedom, security and justice, the Schengen Agreement, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the Social Chapter), four of them remained in force when it left the EU, the most of any member state.
Hungary must say no to the current Europe model built in Brussels, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a congress of his Fidesz party on Saturday, adding that the European Union needs to be changed ...
Pre-1993, the EU was known as the European Communities (sky blue). Animated in order of accession and secession. According to the Copenhagen criteria, membership of the European Union is open to any European country that is a stable, free-market liberal democracy that respects the rule of law and human rights.
According to the EU’s European Commission: “Every year, over 300,000 foreign nationals are ordered to leave the EU because they have entered [illegally] or they are staying irregularly ...
Following the referendum result to leave the EU, the group broadened its campaign aims, being active on issues such as freedom of movement, voting rights and the anti-Trump movement, while continuing to make the case for a more progressive European Union.