This is a good backgrounder on the vote in Britain on June 23rd, to decide whether the nation remains in the European Union or not.
British citizens will be voting on June 23 on a question that will affect not just their political futures and Europe’s, but America’s as well.
The American Interest asked Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations and John Fonte of the Hudson Institute to debate the implications for the United States of a British withdrawal from the European Union—a question up for a vote in a referendum on June 23. This is a subject that President Obama weighed in on publicly during a recent visit to the United Kingdom, reportedly against the advice of his aides. It is an emotional subject in the UK and, apparently, only somewhat less so in the United States.
Read the rest of the article at The American Interest.
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