Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2016
“We should use this momentum to make the EU work again, which means an effective European government for the Eurozone, a European Border and Coast Guard to safeguard free movement, a European capacity to fight terrorism and a Defense Community. The result of this referendum is a wake-up call which we should use to move forward. We will only be able to turn the tide by working more efficiently together.”
These are the changes contained within the Ayrault-Steimeier document. They are not new and confirm the peripheral role of the EU vis-à-vis the Eurozone. Brexit, with the Brits no longer there to frustrate progress, is already a massive boost to Eurozone integration and governance. At the same time this process should help counter the domino effect which is the last hope of the neocons. Getting control of it’s borders and establishing a coherent and just policy on refugees is one key aspect of avoiding contagion from Brexit. Another is stabilizing the situation in Syria i.e. working together with Russia.
By showing there is no EU integration process, only a Eurozone one, these developments could change some British perceptions. Still, with free movement and, therefore, the single market ruled out, it is hard to see any role for Britain in Europe.
Sputnik
30th June, 201
Leaders of the main political parties in the European Parliament are meeting Thursday (June 30) amid calls for a major shake-up of the institutions of the EU following the Brexit referendum result in an effort to prevent a domino effect.
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Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2016
This is Why Russia May be Among Biggest Winners After Brexit
Sputnik
2nd July, 2016
Russia could be the winner after Britain, one of the most avid supporters of anti-Russian sanctions, will leave the European Union, Frank Holmes, managing director of US Global Investors, wrote in an article.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016
We heard that article 50 could not be invoked until we had a brexit prime minister i.e. until the Autumn. But the game is to string things out as long as possible. Now we’re into 2017 by which time we hope to have set the eurosceptic ball rolling. Look out for further delays allowing for the French elections in April, 2017. And so on ad infinitum. As May says:”Brexit means Brexit”. Oh, yes!
Sputnik
30th June, 2016
The UK home secretary emphasized that invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on leaving the European Union should not happen before the end of 2016.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016
At the same time as fighting off a conspiracy to remove the Labour Party from the scene altogether it is important that Labour develops some kind of coherence on the so-called Brexit question. It is true that Brexit will end the free movement of labour but it will also put pay to McDonnell’s wish list. It will end Britain’s membership of the single market: there no point in renaming this as “access” to the single market to get round the problem. As for the City, it will inevitably lose it’s passport outside the EU. Brexit is, above all, a response to Cameron’s failure to negotiate suitable opt-outs from EU, single market rules. Damned if they stay , damned if they leave, City of London interests have placed all their hopes in a domino effect of referenda across Europe leading the collapse of the EU project itself. That’s why neocons like Gove, who see the EU in the same terms as they saw the Soviet Union, are now to the fore. Apart from as this wrecking project, Brexit will never happen. Obviously, on that basis, there is no difficulty in arguing for remain. As for the City of London, it’s future lies in its transformation through the deal with China which some in the British political class appeared to support but which cannot happen until we have formally committed to not leaving i.e. not invoking article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Guardian
The free movement of people around the European Union will end with Brexit, John McDonnell has said as he outlined an economic blueprint for Labour to prepare the nation for departure.
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Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016
The UK will not be part of the ensuing discussion; as Article 50 states: ‘The member of the European Council or of the Council representing the withdrawing Member State shall not participate in the discussions of the European Council or Council or in decisions concerning it.’
Money Observer
1st July, 2016
If the UK does formally leave the EU it will have to renegotiate hundreds of trade agreements. But the UK parliament ‘does not currently have the capacity to cope with a full Brexit’, says a House of Commons spokesperson.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2016
Cailean Bochanan
30th June, 2016
This is all becoming quite surreal. The fall of Boris Johnson seems to be a result of his attempt to present the Brexit vote as a mandate to renegotiate our membership of the EU. The theory must have been that the Europeans heartbroken to lose us, would do anything to ingratiate themselves to us.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2016
Cailean Bochanan
30th June, 2016
The British people have just voted to leave the EU but the prime minister has refused to leave. His heart just isn’t in it. Nor does he want to step down now. Surely, as prime minster he is obliged to accept the result of the referendum which he called and duly invoke article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, specially crafted to the needs of a country which has been on the way out for some time.
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Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2016
As I have argue insistently on this blog, the partnership with China is the only solution to Britain’s deeply entrenched economic problems. Brexit would anyway place it at risk but it’s much worse than that: Britain is now run by people openly hostile to Europe. The “golden relationship is now neither politically nor economically in China’s interest. The reality of Britain’s economic plight will now be cruelly laid bare.
Vote to leave EU robs ‘golden relationship’ of its lustre
Guardian
30th June, 2016
It was all sealed over a pint of Greene King IPA.
One Thursday evening in October 2015, David Cameron strode into a Buckinghamshire pub with another of the world’s most powerful men to toast the beginning of a golden era of relations between the UK and China.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2016
Bloomberg
28th June, 2016
The vote is over but the campaign continues.
With financial markets reeling from the Brexit vote, U.K. companies are stepping up lobbying to maintain access to the European Union’s single market and labor, deepening potential rifts with British “Leave” voters who want to curb immigration.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2016
For the hundredth time it is necessary to explain the Brits that the single market entails free movement. You might think they are just completely stupid but their goal is to undermine the EU by appealing to xenophobic instincts everywhere. This why, having received majority support to leave they refuse to invoke article 50, they refuse to leave. The whole vote has been undertaken under false pretenses: instead of leaving Europe the Brexit junta is seeks to destroy it. This enough to render the whole process null and void: the aim of the referendum was not as claimed.
Independent
29th June, 2016
There can be no “a la carte” access to the single market, the European Council president Donald Tusk has said, as Europe’s leaders agreed that Britain must accept freedom of movement if it wants access.
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Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2016
Cameron tells the EU it was YOUR immigration policy that led to Brexit
Daily Mail
29th June, 2016
Britain will refuse to sign a free trade deal with the EU unless it includes curbs on free movement David Cameron told leaders as he admitted it was immigration fears which led to the Brexit.
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In These New Times 