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UK-European Union Membership Debate - Manchester Metrolink European Union Funded Improvements

A tram travelling in Manchester on Monday 30th March 2015. -- After the United Kingdom General Election of 2015 the Conservative Party formed a government, promising a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. The campaign has already begun on on the referendum. A referendum is vote on a single issue. The United Kingdom benefits from European Union membership and is felt throughout the UK, even if there are not explicit and highly visual signs. However, there are perceived drawbacks from EU membership. After the United Kingdom General Election of 2015 the Conservative Party formed a government, promising a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. The campaign has already begun on on the referendum. A referendum is vote on a single issue. The European Union, as the European Coal and Steel Union (including Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), was initiated to tie France and Germany together through international trade as a method of preventing war in Europe. The United Kingdom benefits from European Union membership and is felt throughout the UK. However, there are perceived drawbacks from EU membership. The passenger light railway transit system, known as the Manchester Metrolink, receives money from the European Union in order improve its central Manchester cross-city network increasing the network's capacity to run more frequent services to its different destinations, across Greater Manchester. (Photo by Jonathan Nicholson/NurPhoto)