The Big Fat Brexit*
NOVANEWS
Adelina Marini,
On the eve of its 60th anniversary the European Union is no longer just enlarging, but contracting as well. For the first time (excluding the special case of Greenland) in the history of the Union a member state takes the road not taken towards the exit. Who would have thought that when the just elected leader of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stated in 2014 that by the end of his term there would not be a new enlargement of the Union, there would actually be a contraction. On March 29, Great Britain filed the official notice for exiting the Union and according to the European Treaties (the now famous Article 50) it should cease to be a member two years later. This will happen on March 29, 2019 – the year when the term of Mr Juncker's Commission ex...