UK EU REFERENDUM// On June 23, 2016, the people of Great Britain will vote on a national referendum to decide if they want to be part of the European Union (EU) or leave it. The EU, which was formed in 1973, is a partnership of 28 countries in Europe that make shared decisions on important political and financial matters. The EU countries have one currency — the Euro — and their people can freely move between countries of the EU to live and work. Basically, the EU works as one big country. Many people in Britain believe they would be better off without the EU. They don’t like paying billions of dollars in EU fees, having EU rules imposed on their businesses, and having to support workers who come from other EU countries to work in Great Britain. Last week, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, who doesn’t want his country to leave the EU, announced that he had worked out a deal with the EU that would give Britain more freedom in some of the areas mentioned above. But will that convince the people of Britain to stay on in the EU? We will know on June 23.