[ARABNEWS] Two hundred years ago this month, at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat at the hands of an allied army, led by the Duke of Wellington, reshaped Europe's future. Britannia may now be poised to do so once again.The United Kingdom, whose new majority Conservative government has pledged to hold a referendum on European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
membership by the end of 2017, perhaps even next year, is not the outlier that it is often portrayed as being. Indeed, it is at the vanguard of the EU's institutional atrophy. Even if it does retain its EU membership, the UK will continue to move steadily away from Europe. With more attractive commercial opportunities elsewhere, most European countries will follow suit.