." >> reporter: on the other side of the debate is 23-year-old worcestershire-born richard fulloway, member of the youth wing of britain's conservative party, fulloway is applying to become a royal naval officer, a career goal that informs his views. >> what i'm looking at is the sort of bigger picture around britain's influence in the world where britain stands in the world. >> reporter: for fulloway, that means not swimming away from europe. >> the world is joining into power blocks, so you've got china, you've got russia pushing its weight around over in the ukraine, you've got china in the south china sea. you've got japan looking to rearm. you've got the u.s. trying to find its place in the world. i think as a country we are much better off as a group of 500 million people than we are on our own as 67 million people. >> reporter: it's a group that's given britain access to the world's largest trade barrier- free single market without having to adopt europe's troubled single currency, the euro, or bailout struggling euro-economies like greece. >> we are in such a special position