EU could collapse long before Brexit process is finished, says Stephen Pollard
THE Brexit vote in June was an earth-shattering political event. So it’s entirely right that the consequences of that vote have dominated the news ever since.
By STEPHEN POLLARD
Express.co.uk
Fri, Dec 2, 2016
Not a day now goes by without punditry and speculation over just how – and when – we will leave the EU. But never has Harold Wilson’s phrase that a week is a long time in politics been more apposite. It’ll be months before we even trigger Article 50, let alone negotiate the specifics of our departure – and let alone when we actually leave.
Before any of that happens, however, there may not even be an EU from which to Brexit. Other votes in Europe have the potential to derail the entire EU project, making our own convulsions over leaving seem irrelevant. On Sunday Italians go to the polls in their own referendum.
In theory their vote has nothing to do with the EU: it’s over a series of constitutional reforms. But such is the state of politics and voter unrest in the EU and such is the setup of Italian politics that a No vote may have a direct impact on that country’s membership and so hasten the demise of the EU itself.
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