Oh, no, not this 'What have the Romans done for us?' list again!
Firstly, a huge amount of this list includes things the UK could have just done for itself, and probably would have, such as 'smoke-free workplaces' and 'holiday entitlement'. If you are a left-winger, you might argue that the EU did things that the 'Tories' would not have, but that is basically saying
"I prefer to be controlled by a left-wing foreign power, than my country's right-wing government", which apart from being undemocratic, dishonest and treason, is also just silly.
Another load of things like 'clean air' and 'nice beaches' could easily be done by UK initiatives and equitable agreements with neighbouring countries. It does not require (or justify) a regional or global government to deliver regional or global benefits.
Then there are some specific responses:
Structural Funding
- UK and Germany are main donors, with few UK recipients - perhaps a noble developmental donation, but not a net benefit.
Mobile Charges
- Not a product of lovely European collaboration, but an example of governmental interference in free markets, so politicians can give voters freebies.
Cheaper Air Travel
- Delivered through less government, not more. And air travel is regulated by IATA, not the EU.
Single Market Competition
- Little evidence for this really existing or bringing benefits to the UK.
Break Up Of Monopolies
- Little or no evidence for this
Patent & Copyright
- The European Patent Office is NOT a EU body, but is an
excellent example of the effectiveness of cooperation amongst European nations
without having to smoosh everyone into a European Union
Cutomes (sic) Paperwork
- Paperwork is supposedly minimised for EU trade, but EU regulation is increased; in my business I have to fill out more EU-paperwork than US-paperwork for equal amounts of work. (See also bloody GDPR.) And paperwork for global trade is increasingly streamlined.
Currency Exchanges
- Almost no impact (tiny changes in regulation with minimal effect). And, anyway, why shouldn't money traders be able to charge a %-based transaction fee?
Travel, Live and Work
- Freedom to travel was always there; freedom to live was easy in the past, if you had means to support yourself; freedom to work is both a benefit and a problem.
Young People funding
- Programmes like Erasmus do not need a central European Government to work.
Health Services
- Both a benefit and a problem.
EU-Funded Research
- Is not free money, 'given by the EU', but is regional-government-controlled pooling of taxpayer funding, for what should be global open non-governmental research activity.
EU Diplomacy
- Uncoordinated and weak, and not just because it is new, but because the EU members do not have a shared foreign policy agenda.
Policing
- Interpol is very satisfactory, and Europol is just regionalisation of an existing global effort.
European Military
- NATO works better (pre-Trump)
And finally, there is simply no evidence that the EU has contributed to generalised European peace in any way, other than flawed reasoning along the lines of "before EU, there was BUT after EU, there was peace", in which case we might as well give the credit to John and Yoko. Although it might be possible to claim that the prospect of EU funding has supported democratic initiatives in Eastern Europe (many of which are turning a bit sour, now that easy EU cash and the Euro has severely damaged their economies).