What is Brexit?
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What is Brexit? Brexit means that the UK will leave the EU. Brexit means that the UK will no longer be a member of the EU. That is what Brexit is. And there the clarity and confidence ends.
By Stephen Weatherill, the Jacques Delors Professor of European Law at Oxford University.
The UK post-Brexit will join the group of over 160 states across the world which are not members of the EU. It would be an exaggeration to claim that there are over 160 models governing the relationship between states that are not members of the EU and the EU, but not by much. There is a wide spectrum, stretching from states with an intimate relationship with the EU involving acceptance of large chunks of the EU’s legislative acquis; through states which possess a free trade agreement with the EU (these take several forms); states whose relationship with the EU is based on the WTO but adorned by extra sectoral deals; states which relate on the basis of the WTO alone; and, at the far extreme, pariah states wi...
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