Abstract
The brightest manifestation of the various innovations in Europe was the emergence and the development of the different European communities, later to be merged in the European Union. The history of this process is a complex one. Each State is motivated and implicated in the integration process according to a different agenda since 1945. Thus, the eastern countries shared the common experience of almost 50 years of communism, which gives them different expectations towards the EU. However, despite all this diversity, one country that has emerged with a somewhat indelible image of a difficult, if not terrible, is Britain. In this document, we discuss the various factors that led to the notion that Britain is an "awkward partner? in Europe. The reasons behind their polite and disciplined nature turning to that of a rebellious one in the European context needs to be exposed. We present the major three factors in this document that led to the complexity of this relationship.
