Why did Queen Elizabeth decide not to have England join the ECU?

Question

Was it because she would have to give up being monarch and submit to higher authorities, loose her name and picture on the money our any of the other things that she would need to loose in order to join?

Answer 1

Does she have any authority to stop it?

Answer 2

As the head of state, the Queen sees weekly briefing papers from Government departments, including the Foreign Office, which has helped negotiate a draft text of the constitution with Britain's EU partners.

She also holds a weekly audience with the Prime Minister at which she can raise issues that worry her. But sources say that the Palace has started to throw the net wider and has sought expert independent and critical views about the EU's plans.

It is believed that the Palace's concerns focus on whether the Queen's supreme authority as the guardian of the British constitution, asserted through the sovereignty of Parliament, could be altered or undermined by article 10 of the draft text.

This states: "The constitution and law adopted by the union's institutions in exercising competences conferred on it shall have primacy over the law of the member states."

Many MPs say that this will rob the House of Commons of its

ultimate authority to override decisions and laws made by the EU.

Downing Street refused to comment on the Palace's request for more information about the constitution. But Frank Field, the Labour MP for Birkenhead, said: "It is wonderful that at last the Palace has got wise to this."

He said that in most respects the constitution would relegate the Queen to the role of a "glorified head of a county council".

Answer 3

I don't know if the Queen actually has any power over it. I'm guessing that the UK declined in order to keep their autonomy. Once you lose your money, you've lost a lot of your individuality as a country. Plus, the pound has always been very strong, and I think joining the Union would devalue the economy in the UK.

Answer 4

i'm a fan of queen elizabeth, but i don't know why. sorry. interesting question.

Answer 5

Hmm... I'm not a European, but it seems to me that there are other constitutional monarchies within the ECU. And Monaco has the likeness of Prince Rainier II on its Euro coins. Anyway, perhaps Elizabeth was opposed to membership in the ECU, but it really isn't/wasn't her decision to make.

Answer 6

Your question has a very complicated answer, because it was not the Queen per say who stopped England from joining the ECU, but Parliament, which ultimately reports to the people of the UK.

First the UK did not want to give up the Pound.

Second is that the UK did not want to join their militarize together

Are you aware of the expense involved in dissolving the Monarch and Her Post ion? It won't simply effect England and the position and money, but the money and position of every commonwealth country on the globe, an expense that the Queen could not expect the commonwealth to bear.

As I said, complicated. I hope you all learned something today

+david

Answer 7

the queen has no power to make political decisions like that ,its the government  that has that power.