Will Greece Affect the UK EU Referendum?

MARKET REACTION: Greece is not the only country to be voting in a referendum concerning Europe. Britons face a vote on membership of the EU soon - are the two linked?

Emma Wall 6 July, 2015 | 8:00AM
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Speaker: Everything that happens in Europe is linked together. So, you can't just see them like in isolation. It's not like you can cut them off from the euro and think, okay, that's not going to be something that we are going to feel in the rest of the world.

Speaker: Absolutely, anybody who thinks these things are separated and uncoupled in some way is clearly misguided. Anything that happens to one or a large number of smaller elements in Europe impacts every decision that's made by every larger part of Europe.

For the U.K., our referendum is going to be based on what U.K. people think it means to them and when they see some of the activities in Greece and the following-on implications of that, they are definitely going to be linking those two things together.

Speaker: If we're talking about the European Union, it should all be one. So, I can't understand why one should suffer that is in the European Union. So, if it's a union, it's self-explanatory. It means union; that means all together. If it's union, it means everybody. So, their suffering is our suffering as well.

Speaker: It does raise questions about whether we should leave the EU.

Speaker: I think it's going to make it a very complicated question. I don't think it's going – I think that question from a government perspective is going to be very difficult to manage. It's not something I personally agree with or think that it should be done, but I think disruption in Europe is going to make that debate a lot more difficult and I think it could have unexpected consequences.

Speaker: To be honest with you, I'm not really one to go in Europe. I’d rather we came out [of the EU] myself. This country has not been the same since we went in it, I don't think.

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Emma Wall  is former Senior International Editor for Morningstar

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