Dear Colleague, In these days the UK's hottest topic is the Brexit referendum where on the 23 June British citizens are asked to express their opinion on the issue that Britain should remain or leave the European Union.
I'd like to be clear that EPN Consulting and myself are strongly convinced the UK must remain in the EU for a number of reasons whose the main is: one single country, whatever size in population, GDP, territorial extension, etc. is too little to face the global challenge.
This can be easily noticed in several markets: Banks join together to survive, Car Manufacturers merge to survive, Telecom companies merge to survive, big Consultancy firms merge or are acquired by even larger firms to survive, even multi-disciplinary merging processes happen to make companies survive or at least diversify/expand their business. Most recent examples: Microsoft has just bought LinkedIn and before they acquired Skype, Vodafone New Zealand partnered with Sky, in the recent past Facebook bought Whatsapp, etc..
The Globalisation - as it is called - is a challenge; it may be a great opportunity, but it can also represent a big risk with a lot of a new competitors appearing every day on the market, therefore alliances - when not M&A - are essential.
In this view, the European Union can be seen as an alliance that make 500m people more capable of competing with China (1.38bn people), India (1.32bn people), BRICS and all the other strange acronyms representing groups of countries that joined together to become stronger.
This is not a political issue (neither left nor right wing), but just wisdom and sensible vision of the future.
Founder, CEO
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