Re: And the UK ?
"....."Project Fear" has turned into Project lots to be frightened about....."
Perhaps if there had been more effort put into pushing the past, present and future benefits and successes for the UK gained from EU membership to the electorate, the end result would have been very different.
Instead those leading the the Remain campaign chose a path which revolved around trying to frighten everyone into voting 'Remain' by effectively pretending that the entire UK economy would collapse overnight, the pound would crash and be worthless (and pretty much that the sky would fall in) if the nation even dared to vote 'Leave'.
'Leave' didn't win; 'Remain' threw the vote away!
Not that all this has any relevence to the EU proposing to (perhaps) do something that the UK had already made a firm commitment to do several years ago.