Five Facts About Brexit, the U.S., and Britain

Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship, Heritage Foundation Factsheet #165, June 2, 2016, "Many Americans believe the EU is a bit like NAFTA—a free trade area. That is untrue. The EU is not even a free trade area: it is a customs union. More important, the EU is a political project and always has been. Imagine if the U.S. was part of a federal union with every other nation in the Western Hemisphere, with a supranational bureaucracy in Costa Rica that had the power to make rules for us, and a court in Mexico City that could overrule our Supreme Court. That is the EU. If you believe in democratic national sovereignty, the EU isn’t for you."