b'2. World success of the UK in higher educationUK universities stand out for their excellence, according to world rankings.The conclusion from the data is clear and straightforward. The UKs universities, generally, are the best in Europe. As and when the Commission extends its control to Higher Education, the UKs universities are then likely to be dragged down to the levels of the rest of the EUfollowing the same framework in which Eurostat, under the pretext of revising its methodology for determining the size of the UK economy, was looking for a way to extract more revenue from an economy doing better than most others in the EU.3. The UKs influence in the world via international organisations A countrys influence and interests in therefusing to enforce US sanctions on Iran. world can be protected, even enhanced,And, theyve gone even further, having by direct membership of internationalapproved a 50 million aid package in direct organisations. These have become morecontravention of US sanctions. influential in recent decades. Traditionally, the UK has been a member ofNobody can blame EU negotiators if they most of the key international organisationsregard UK interests as simply one set of including the UN Security Council, G7interests amongst 27; that is their job. (formerly G8), NATO, WHO and FAO. To emphasise the point, Norway has its own Membership of the European Union puts thisvoice, not merely on the WTO, but also on at risk. EU membership has already causedthe UNs Food and Agriculture Organisation significant losses in the UKs position and(FAO) with its critical role in determining influence. Unlike countries as disparate asglobal fishing policy. By contrast, the UK is the United States, Norway, Switzerland,trapped in the Common Fisheries Policy and Rwanda and Nepal, the UKs seat at thevoiceless on the WTO. WTO is inactive. We are dependent on the EU to negotiate and reach trade agreementsPlease see Appendix 22 for a long list of the for us at the WTO.international organisations of which the UK is a member. Further, the EU has threatened the Special Relationship between the US and UK byAnother example: the UK is a full member of the G7 (formerly G8, before Russias140'