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This Happened — June 23: Brexit Referendum

Updated June 23, 2024 at 12:10 p.m. The Brexit referendum was held on this day in 2016. The options in the referendum were “Remain” or “Leave,” giving voters the choice to either support the UK remaining in the European Union or to vote for the UK to leave the EU. What was the outcome of […]

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A Britain Hell Bent On Brexit Holds A Bigger Lesson For Europe

-OpEd- PARIS — While leafing through the newspapers in an English pub last weekend, I was surprised to see The Sunday Times, hardly a tabloid, portraying the three fiercest Brexiters as “musketeers.” A rather flattering image assuming Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg — the three men in question — are not offended by […]

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To Brexit Or Not To Brexit, Is That Still A Question?

The negotiations and the complex, chaotic debates around Brexit are revealing of a major dilemma facing democracies: What do you do when a country is profoundly divided?

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Brexit Would Leave Germany Stranded Against Freeloading South

If the UK leaves the European Union, the members of the free market camp in the EU would be severely outnumbered.

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