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>The EU has majority approval in every single member country and even the UK

Yeah, just not the EU power centers (the Commission for one), which were never voted for, and increasingly moved state power over to bureaucracy and unelected shadow bodies.

>Apart from survey data, there have been many referenda on EU membership or aspects of it over the years, with similar results.

Yes. And when they failed, they were repeated to taste or merely ignored.

(And ahead of those, the EU bodies devoted lots of funds to "educational" campains on those matters to promote the desired results in the press, yielded bribes, sorry, developmental packages and exerted pressure, in a carrot and stick manner, to get nation states to vote favorably).




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