References
1. As per the
Treaty Establishing the European Communities, or TEC
2. Article 133
TEC
3. As per the
Treaty on European Union, or TEC (also known as the ‘Maastricht Treaty’)
4. Cabinet
Office web-site: www.cabinet-office.gov.uk.
April 2004
5. Articles
211 and 249-254 of the TEC.
6. Articles
2,3 & 6.4 of the TEC; and Protocol 30 of the TEC.
7. Article 48
TEC [Treaty of the European Union]
8. See, for example, Colombani, P, Le Commerce Mondial au
21esiecle: Scenarios pour L’Union Europeenne, Institut
Francais des Relations Internationales, November 2002, www.ifri.org. Also Baroness Cox, House of Lords Hansard, 27th
June 2003, Cols 540-543
9. And see
groundbreaking new study A Cost too Far? By Ian Milne, July 2004, published by Civitas www,civitas.org.uk
ISBN 1-903 386-37 3
10. Speech
by Dutch Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Mr Gerrit Zalm, to the UK
government-sponsored conference “Advancing Enterprise: Britain in a Global
Economy”, 26th January 2004.
11. UK
Balance of Payments: The Pink Book 2003, Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk.
12. HM Treasury, Budget Statement, 17th
March 2004, HC301. www.hm-treasury.gov.uk.
13. Table 2.1: Supply & Use
Tables for the United Kingdom, in United Kingdom National Accounts: The Global
Year Book 2003, Office for National Statistics 2001, www.statistics.gov.uk. Summarised in Global Britain Briefing Note
No 22: Ninety per cent of the British economy is NOT
involved in exports to the EU 20th
September 2002.
14 Written
Answers, House of Lords, 5th July 2004 (HL 3440 & 3441
15. See, for
example, Global Britain Briefing Note No 33:
Customs
Duties: Hardly Worth Collecting 17th September 2004, www.globalbritain.org.
16. Pain, N and
Young, G., Continent
Cut Off? The Macroeconomic Impact
of British Withdrawal from the EU< National Institute of Economics and
Social Research (NIESR), February 2000.
17. The Impact on the US Economy
of Including the UK in a Free Trade Arrangement with the USA, Canada and
Mexico, International Trade Commission, Investigation No
332-409, Publication No 3339, August 2000. www.usitc.gov
18. Hindley,
B., and Howe, M., Better
Off Out? IEA 1996 and 2001 www.iea.org.uk.
19. See Geographical Breakdown of
the EU Current Accout, 2002 Edition, Eurostat/European Commission. Summarised in Global Britain Briefing Note
No 27: Single Market: USA
Main Beneficiary, 6 June 2003 www.globalbritain.org.
20. See
Chapter 6 of A
Cost Too Far? – The Importance of Inward Investment to the UK Economy, by Ian
Milne, July 2004, published by Civitas www.civitas.org.uk
ISBN 1-903 386-37 3
21. The 18th
June was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. (No
more wars in Europe, thanks to the EU) –[A Myth of monumental proportions]
22. See House of Lords Hansard, 25/2/04,
cols 313-328.
23 The
proposed EU Constitution. CM 6289. Www.fco.gov.uk. For indexed version with summary of key
issues, see The
Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, published by the British
Data Management Foundation www.bmdf.co.uk
24 Article 43
TEC [Treaty of the European Union]
NB For detailed bullet-point analyses of the above, supported
by official figures and impeccable sources, see also the Briefing Notes and
other material on www.globalbritain.org