Britain has always positioned itself as closer to America than its continental cousins – it shares a language, historical links, not to mention close cooperation on foreign policy, intelligence sharing and military operations.
Euronews’ Jo Gill talked to Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington about the UK’s big in/out decision on the EU.
Euronews: “The White House is on record as being against Brexit. The UK is often viewed as Washington’s mouthpiece in Brussels. But is it an open and shut case that the US would want Britain to remain in the EU?”
Heather Conley: “It is clearly in America’s interests for the UK to remain in the European Union but we want to have a UK that’s very active in the EU and unfortunately, the referendum has just been a great distraction for our very important ally and it’s also causing some economic concerns about what a decision to leave would do to the global economy.”
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Source: euronews.
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