Flight From Fortress Europe?

On the 23rd of June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom will decide whether or not to remain within the European Union.

History of the Union

The EU has its origin in a series of treaties concluded during the aftermath of the Second World War. These culminated in the creation of the European Economic Community in 1958. The founding members of the EEC included protagonists from both sides of the conflict. From those beginnings, the EEC evolved into the modern European Union with a total of twenty-eight Member States. The EU incorporates over 7% of the global population and was the world's largest economy in 2014 with a nominal GDP of approximately 18.5 trillion US dollars.

The goal of the EEC, and later the EU, was to promote economic integration between Member States by facilitating a single market and allowing the free movement of goods, services, capital and people across that market. A significant obstacle was the variation in Intellectual Property regimes