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  2. United Kingdom membership of the European Union - Wikipedia

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    Leave the European Union: 17,410,742: 51.89: Remain a member of the European Union: 16,141,241 48.11 ... Britain first began talks to join the EEC in July 1961. [1]

  3. 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum

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    For the next forty-one years, the result provided a major pro-European direction to politicians, particularly in the UK Parliament and later in the newly devolved establishments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, until the 2016 EU membership referendum was held on Thursday 23 June 2016, when the UK voted by 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the ...

  4. Referendum Act 1975 - Wikipedia

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    The Referendum Act 1975 (c. 33) also known at the time as the Referendum Bill was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which made legal provision for the holding of a consultative referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Communities (EC)—generally known at the time in the UK, with reference to their main component, the European Economic ...

  5. Results of the 1975 United Kingdom European Communities ...

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    The 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum was a public vote that took place on 5 June 1975, on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Communities which was principally the European Economic Community (the Common Market) as it was known at the time.

  6. Withdrawal from the European Union - Wikipedia

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    It initially voted against joining the EEC when Denmark joined in 1973, but because Denmark as a whole voted to join, Greenland, as a county of Denmark, joined too. When home rule for Greenland began in 1979, it held a new referendum and voted to leave the EEC.

  7. United Kingdom membership of the European Economic Area

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    Membership of the EEA is a consequence of membership of the European Union (EU). The UK ceased to be a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement after its withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020, as it was a member of the EEA by virtue of its EU membership, but retained EEA rights during the Brexit transition period , based on Article 126 of the ...

  8. Referendums related to the European Union - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom — 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 23 June 2016, 51.9% to leave, turnout 72.2% In February 2016, the Conservative government of David Cameron negotiated " a new settlement for Britain in the EU " which was then followed by a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union in the United Kingdom ...

  9. Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities

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    The ECSC and EEC would later be integrated into the European Union under the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in the early 1990s and mid-2000s. The UK had been the first country to establish a Delegation to the ECSC in 1952, and the first country to sign an Association Agreement with the Community in 1954.