Over the years, fake news has been spreading about EU. Here are the real facts.
Treating Brits abroad costs other EU countries five times as much as the NHS cost of treating EU citizens.
Educating migrant children does not cost £3.26 billion, as claimed by Vote Leave. In 2016 government figures reported that nearly 700,000 school-aged children had at least one parent who was a citizen of a European country. This figure includes people such as Nigel Farage; he has two children by his first wife who is Irish, and two more children by his second wife, a German national.
There has never been an EU ban on bendy bananas, or Bombay Mix. There has never been a ban on under-8's blowing up balloons - just a requirement that packaging has to include a safety warning. Likewise, the EU did not call for life guards at paddling pools - it has no jurisdiction to do this.
The Smoking Ban in UK pubs is UK law, and did not come from EU legislation.
There was no need to replace UK passports with a different colour cover as there this is a decision for individual countries. The decision to go from blue to burgundy was taken by the UK government.
There is no EU Army.
The UK remains metric. The change from Imperial measures happened in 1965, eight years before the UK joined the EU.
The EU did not try to put Kent in France. In a report looking at environmental changes in Europe, it was listed as having similar issues as France. Nor did it try to rename Trafalgar Square or Waterloo station.
The UK will still participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, as this is not an EU event. The annual international song competition is run by Eurovision, a television network that is part of the European Broadcasting Union, which also runs a radio network, Euroradio. Eurovision was set up for the purpose of exchanging TV programmes and TV news footage.
English will continue to be an official language of the EU as it is the most widely spoken language, understood by 51% of all adults. All 24 official languages of the EU are accepted as working languages, but in practice only three - English, French and German - are in wide general use, with English being the more commonly used. English is still an official language in Ireland and Malta.
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