No. The United Kingdom is a country. The European is an organisation which has 28 countries as members. The United Kingdom is one of those countries.
How does UK benefit for being in the EU? Participate in the EU economy (same currency) Free trade in the EU. (but there are other trade blocks) Free borders with EU countries inherit some laws from EU ( can be added to UK) make treaties for complete EU at one point, rather than individually country to country.
As a member of the EU, the UK is expected to issue health and safety regulations that implement EU health and safety Directives. Every member of the EU is expected to do that. No two members does it in precisely the same way. So the EU health and safety regulations are harmonized with EU directives, but may differ in subtle ways for the health and safety regulations of other EU members.
The UK was a founding member of the EU.
Effectively much legislation now comes via the EU - as EU laws should apply to all member states. The UK has some exemptions. Our passport system is not the same as all of the EU and we have not yet adopted the Euro as a currency. EU legislation allows all EU citizens free travel throughout the EU. On a side note many in the UK want to leave the EU and consider it a pain in the neck!
EU Referendum Campaign - UK - was created in 2010.
The UK is part of the EU.
The UK is an EU Member State. The EU Law is therefore binding.
All of the UK is a member of the EU
You can use an EU driving licence in the UK until it expires.
yes it was one of the first countries to go in the eu
It isn't. Both France and the UK are western European countries ; members of the EU ; democracies ; having a temperate climate ; developed countries ; ...
the impact that the UK public services has on the eu is that chuck Norris is their leader to world domination