Gérard Araud – Brexit has just made a pschitt

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CHRONIC. The British political crisis followed by the arrival in Downing Street of Rishi Sunak demonstrates that Brexit was a dead end.

By Gerard Araud

Eobviously the British political crisis is the direct consequence of Brexit! It highlights the contradictions which today lead the United Kingdom into a dead end. Indeed, the majority, which decided, in June 2016, on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, was united only on this objective, because deeply divided on everything else, in particular on what to do with this Brexit. Leaving the largest market in the world and refusing the notion of a gradual rapprochement of European countries are not details, but fundamental choices of society. You still have to know where you want to go. Since 2016, the country has been unable to answer this question.

Indeed, roughly, the majority who voted for Brexit is divided into two blocs, one who wanted to get rid…

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