EU Facing Great Challenges at a Time ‘When It May Fall Apart From the Inside’
SputnikNews.com
18.09.2016
EU leaders have come up with a road map to reinvigorate the bloc amid uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote. The initiative was discussed by 27 member states on Friday at an informal EU Summit in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Despite certain hopes the EU states have not been able to work out any comprehensive strategy of how the EU should act in the coming future. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Alexander Thiele, a European law Professor from the Free University of Berlin.
“It wasn’t to be expected that this summit would have led to any sort of a great deal that would be able to solve all the upcoming problems in the future,” Thiele told Sputnik. “What actually has been reached is the agreement that we first of all need a new agreement on where to go with the European integration after Brexit,” the expert added.
On June 23, 52 percent of UK voters chose to leave the EU in a referendum on the country’s membership in the bloc. The UK’s Brexit decision means the EU is about to lose its most capable military member state and signifies the failure of the European system as a whole.
“Brexit was a clear break in the European integration process. And it sort of caught most of other European Union’s member states more or less by surprise. Everybody expected things would go well, but they didn’t. So what we see now is other member states trying to find a solution, how to cope with this new situation,” Thiele said.
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