PRO-EU OPINION PIECE
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSITTING in a comfortable flybe. seat, maybe flying home from a colourful continental European destination, you will already know how Britain's European Union (EU) membership improves your life.Those simple passport control procedures at continental airports - if there were are any at all - are a direct result of the demolition of national borders by Brussels.Before the EU and its predecessor the European Economic Community, (or Common Market) existed, when a shattered Europe was picking itself up from the Second World War, continental travellers ...
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