Will Brexit break up the UK?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Now that the British parliament has approved the Brexit bill in March 2017 the UK's departure from the EU - with all its consequences - was drawing closer. The Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's plans to hold a new referendum on Scottish independence and the hypothetical possibility of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland reuniting prompt the press to speculate on whether the UK was on the brink of disintegration.

http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Scotland must have choice over future http://www.europeansources.info/record/scotland-must-have-choice-over-future/

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: Northern Ireland illustrates the threat Brexit poses for the UK’s political stability http://www.europeansources.info/record/northern-ireland-illustrates-the-threat-brexit-poses-for-the-uks-political-stability/

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 29.03.17: Now Article 50 has been triggered, will the United Kingdom survive? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/03/29/article-50-triggered-will-uk-survive/

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