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ลำดับตอนที่ #60 : Combo EU : 'will affect UK whether in or out' , EU has helped UK economy
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35739780
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35751919
The
UK will be affected by the euro area whether it votes to stay in or leave the
EU, according to former Bank of England boss Mervyn King.
Lord
King said the eurozone would still be the UK's biggest trade partner, even
though the euro had been a "mistake".
Leave
campaigners argue the UK could strike better deals with faster-growing countries if it were
outside the EU.
However,
Germany's finance minister warned the world economy would be
"poisoned" if the UK departed.
British
voters will be asked whether the UK should remain an EU member in a referendum
on Thursday 23 June.
'Concern'
Asked
if the UK would be badly affected by eurozone troubles after the referendum,
Lord King told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "That will be true, in or
out."
The
life peer was governor of the UK's central bank during the financial crisis and
stepped down in 2013.
He
said the euro project had been a "mistake" and that Germany, one of
the driving forces behind the single currency, could be better off leaving.
The
"economic arithmetic"
does not add up for the euro, but Germany and other EU leaders are supporting
it for political reasons, he said.
"That
is why in the longer run the euro area, not the EU but the euro area, is
something that we should all be concerned about," he said.
Lord
King would not comment on whether he was in favour of the UK leaving the
European Union.
The
UK sold £200.4bn of exports to eurozone countries in 2014, which was 39% of all
the goods and services it sold abroad that year, according to the Office for National
Statistics.
Of
the EU's 28 countries, 19 use the euro.
'Poison'
Campaigners
on both sides of the EU referendum
are focusing on how the vote will affect British trade.
Speaking
on the same show, London Mayor Boris Johnson said the "riskier
option" was to stay inside the EU because its focus was on preserving the eurozone.
German
finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble conceded that the UK could negotiate a new trade deal to stay
inside the single market - a free trade zone across all 28 EU countries - without
being a member of the EU.
However,
he said, a UK decision to leave would cause "years of the most difficult
negotiations".
"For
years we would have such insecurity it would be a poison to the economy in the
UK, the European continent and the global economy as well," Mr Schaeuble
said on the show.
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In
a pre-hearing letter to the Treasury Committee, Mark Carney said that the
relationship had helped the UK to grow.
In
a sometimes fractious
exchange with MPs on the committee, Mr Carney denied claims he was
"pro-EU".
Conservative
MP Jacob Rees-Mogg accused him of making "pro-EU" comments
"beneath the dignity
of the Bank".
Mr
Carney emphasised that the Bank was not taking sides in the EU referendum.
"We
will not be making, and nothing we say should be interpreted as making, any recommendation with
respect to that decision," he said.
Mr
Carney appeared in front of the cross-party Treasury Committee to discuss the
economic and financial costs and benefits of the UK's EU membership, ahead of
the referendum on 23 June.
Referring
to a Bank of England report on the EU, Mr Carney concluded that EU membership
had "likely increased the dynamism of the UK economy and correspondingly
its ability to grow without generating risks to the Bank's primary objectives
of monetary and
financial stability".
However,
Mr Rees-Mogg said this could be attributed to reforms made under Margaret Thatcher.
"It
is speculative and
beneath the dignity of the Bank of England to be making speculative, pro-EU
comments," Mr Rees-Mogg said.
The
MP said that he was concerned that the Bank was focused more on the positive
aspects of EU membership than the negative, adding that it was guilty of
"political partisanship" over Europe.
Mr
Carney rejected Mr Rees-Mogg's statements as "wholly unfounded" and said: "With respect, what
concerns me is your selective memory."
Exit after-effects
Mr
Carney said an exit was the biggest domestic risk to financial stability.
If
Britain votes to leave the EU, Mr Carney said the Bank "will do everything
in our power to discharge our responsibility to achieve monetary stability and
financial stability".
He
said that there were measures that the Bank of England could take in the short
term to support the financial system but said he could not rule out the
possibility that there could be issues with stability.
Commenting
on the short-term impact of an EU exit, Mr Carney said: "There could be
lower levels of activity because of the degree of uncertainty that could affect
investment and household spending. Reasonable expectations during a period of
uncertainty.
Mr
Carney was also questioned about the financial sector's reaction to an exit.
He
said: "One would expect some activity to move, certainly there's a logic
to that and there are views that have been expressed publicly and privately by
a number of institutions that they would look at it, and I'd say a number of
institutions are contingency
planning for that possibility."
On
Monday, the Bank of England pledged
to offer extra funding to the financial market before and after the June vote,
in case uncertainty put pressure on the banking system.
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