Has the UK counted the cost of leaving the EU?  EU Headquarters
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Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.  At the moment, there is
considerable tension in the U.K. over its future within the
European Union, with opinion polls showing a significant number
of Brits wanting out. However, businesses have sounded repeated
warnings that the impact of a U.K. exit from the EU could be
significant. Indeed, for global companies such as Amazon or
Nissan, which have large operations in the U.K., a departure
would be very unwelcome.  The U.K. economy has been struggling
for many years in the global economy and its growth in
productivity has been much lower than that of its main trading
partners, and especially those of its competitors in the U.S.
and Asia.  But the U.K. should be aware that the West's economic
dominance is not permanent. In 1825 China and India represented
an incredible 40 percent of world gross domestic product. The
rise in power of the U.K. and oth