When it came to joining the first European supranational project, the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community, the answer of the Great Britain was not so enthusiastic , believing that European integration was not economic and political in nature and when few years later in 1957 they have to choose between the British Commonwealth and the European Economic Community (EEC) they once again unconditionally favoured the former, complementing economic reasons to geopolitical ones, preferring belonging to the 1960 European Free Trade Association (EFTA) that allowed Britain to free trade with six other European States at the same time keeping its imperial preference system. Its first entry into the EEC was in 1973, along with Ireland and Denmark, but it has never been the happiest and satisfied of the Member States, arriving to put to the test the population with the 1975 Referendum in which, however, two-thirds of the votes cast favoured continued Union Membership even though it wasn’t eas