One of the factors driving the UK’s sense of unease in its relations with an increasingly bureaucratized Europe is the belief that its values and institutions are closer to those of the US, or of other English-speaking former colonies. By the 1990’s, British Euro-skeptics coined the term “Anglosphere” to describe a model that was more successful and more expansionary than that of the EU.
英国感到越来越难以经营与日渐官僚主义化的欧洲的关系的一个因素是英国人认为其价值和制度更接近于美国或其他前殖民地英语国家。20世纪90年代，英国的欧洲怀疑派创造了“盎格鲁圈”一词，用来描述比欧盟更成功、更具扩张力的模式。