The 'Brexit' Debate and the Energy Sector; embracing freedom or a reckless leap in the dark?

摘要

As 23 June, the date of the UK referendum on British membership of the EU, approaches, the debate rages more fiercely than ever. Passions have become so heated that even the Archbishop of Canterbury thought it advisable to step in a short time ago, praying for calm and tolerance on both sides! Given that the EU's foundations were partly laid in the energy sector, with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, and that. the central issues are very much legal ones, with law-making and constitutional powers and processes at their heart, it would be strange for this journal not to comment. The decision will also be a momentous one, of course, impacting on every sector in this country, one way or another. As former Prime Minister John Major said in a recent article, "It will decide Britain's place in the world for generations to come." Viewed from the perspective of the energy sector, does it make sense for this country to leave the EU? This writer's opinion (a personal, not an official, one) is emphatically not.