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Soon people in the UK will get to vote on whether the country should stay in the European Union, or leave.
Before that happens, the Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to get other European countries to agree on changes to how it works.
If he's successful the deal will form the basis for his argument that the UK should stay.
But what exactly is the European Union and how did Britain end up a member?
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