JAKARTA/LONDON -- In his memoirs, Singapore's late-founding father Lee Kuan Yew reminisced about attending a 1962 Commonwealth meeting between the British prime minister and leaders of the Dominions to discuss the U.K.'s application to join the European Economic Community, now the European Union.
After nearly half a century as part of the European Union or its precursor, the European Economic Community, the U.K. fully exited the EU at the end of last year to once again seek independent engagement with the world. © Illustration by Michael Tsang
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