Soft or hard Brexit?

Abstract:
The EU is in uncharted waters when it comes to negotiating the UK’s exit from the Union. Creative and flexible thinking will be required from all parties if an orderly departure is to be managed. The alternative is a fractious, mutually damaging and disorderly Brexit. This commentary argues for a short-term, time-limited agreement to stabilise the EU-UK relationship and to allow breathing space to develop the terms of a long-term strategic partnership.

• Primary Source

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: Hard choices and few soft options: The implications of Brexit for Euroscepticism across Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/hard-choices-and-few-soft-options-the-implications-of-brexit-for-euroscepticism-across-europe/

ESO: Background information: A tale of two countries: Brexit and the ‘left behind’ thesis http://www.europeansources.info/record/a-tale-of-two-countries-brexit-and-the-left-behind-thesis/

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