Abstract
23 June 2016 was a momentous date in the history of European integration. On that day, the citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) voted on whether their country should leave the European Union (EU) or remain a member state. At the close of polling, 51.9% of those who had voted had opted to leave the Union. By a narrow margin, the first member state ever was to secede from the EU. The EU’s response to this challenge would have major implications for its immediate and longer-term future. Brexit was yet another crisis in a series of major crises that beset the EU from the mid-2000s onwards. This book explores how the EU27 was able to muster a united and effective response to Brexit at a time of apparent fragmentation and alleged weakness.
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Donald Tusk (European Council), Jean-Claude Juncker (European Commission), Martin Schulz (European Parliament) and Mark Rutte (Rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union).
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Laffan, B., Telle, S. (2023). Introduction: Responding to Brexit. In: The EU's Response to Brexit. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26263-0_1
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