I am Sophie Watkins, a UK citizen currently living in Switzerland. I am married and mother of two and hoping for each nation of Europe to have returned to them their national sovereignty. I am pleased about the outcome of the referendum but I am not triumphant. I simply want to tell the truth as far as I can, given my limited access to all the information, to help people make good decisions for the future based on good principles of compassion and doing what is right.
My husband researched, collated and wrote the EU History page. He has a vision for a Europe of sovereign nation states, each with their own government and currency, all co-operating on important matters on an intergovernmental basis. In effect, a new version of the EEC but with as few supra-national bodies as possible. He believes bottom-up cooperation of nation states, rather than top-down diktat from a supranational bureaucracy, should be the fundamental principle of future European co-operation.
My husband researched, collated and wrote the EU History page. He has a vision for a Europe of sovereign nation states, each with their own government and currency, all co-operating on important matters on an intergovernmental basis. In effect, a new version of the EEC but with as few supra-national bodies as possible. He believes bottom-up cooperation of nation states, rather than top-down diktat from a supranational bureaucracy, should be the fundamental principle of future European co-operation.