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Business Daily: How Would Europe Feel if the UK Left the EU?

29/09/2014

How Would Europe Feel if the UK Left the EU?

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What would it mean for the European Union if Britain were to leave?

After dramatic protests about democracy in Hong Kong, we get an assessment from the BBC's chief business correspondent Linda Yueh of what it means for the territory's economic future? The question of British membership of the European Union looms large as the Conservative party holds its annual conference. The British Prime Minster David Cameron has promised an "in-out" referendum, if the Conservatives win the next election. But how does the rest of Europe view the prospect? We hear from a former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and from Guntram Wolff, the director of the Breughel Institute, a Brussels think tank who both want Britain to stay. But professor Tim Congdon of Buckingham University tells us he thinks the costs for the UK of staying, are too high. 
And, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times looks at online reviews of employers by their own staff. Why, she asks, are there so few of them?

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