Brexit is not over, it is beginning.
For four and a half years, the divorce proceedings between Great Britain and the European Union have often flirted with the precipice, but the agreement ratified in extremis yesterday in London and Brussels ultimately allows an amicable separation.
It is when the British cast off with Europe that the new chapter of their
“national narrative”
, to use Boris Johnson's phrase, and perhaps of the
“mutual weakening”
that fears Michel Barnier.
This January 1, we are all, islanders and mainlanders, from theory to practice.
The theory didn't have all the bad sides.
It has shown that it is possible to break with the EU - an option in itself reassuring for the sovereignty of the Member States.
Leaving the club is, after all, no more difficult than entering it, when 120,000 pages of “community assets” have to be digested for years.
The "deal" also proves that the rupture has its limits: to continue
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