Brexit or Breakup?
It soon will be one year since the UK decided, by a slim majority, to leave the EU. Now that the UK has invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, and clarified some of its objectives for leaving the bloc, we can begin to get a sense of how the process will play out over the next few years – and it probably won't be pretty.
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STOCKHOLM – Even after abandoning its empire, the United Kingdom hesitated for decades to join Europe. But it eventually did, and in the past half-century it became a proponent of European Union enlargement, and a champion of key EU policies such as the single market.