The EU Needs a Brexit Endgame

02/14/2019

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JEAN PISANI-FERRY | Project Syndicate

After 31 months of the United Kingdom and the European Union arguing over Brexit, the truth is that neither side knows what it wants.

This sad reality is most obvious in the case of the UK, whose ruling Conservative Party has consistently been at war with itself over the actual meaning of the June 2016 Brexit referendum. After a series of strategic mishaps and tactical blunders by Prime Minister Theresa May, the Tory infighting came to a head in mid-January, when Parliament voted down her negotiated exit agreement. It made clear that May lacks support within her own party for a realistic compromise with the EU.

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