In Paris for a debate on “What EU without the UK? And what UK without the EU?
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On 23 June 2016, the British people will go to the polls to decide whether or not the United Kingdom will remain in the European Union. The results will be a landmark event, especially if the electorate votes leave. The EU is not a prison, and nobody can argue against the results, but a victory of the “Out” campaign must be considered as a real possibility.
Will it be an earthquake? In any case, it is a difficult choice with consequences for both parties. Will this mean a weakened Union in the eyes of the world? The beginnings of its “dismemberment”? Of its dissolution? Or will it spell a re-composition and a new beginning? For its part, will the UK be triumphantly freed from its supposed “chains”, or will it be an isolated country, reduced more-or-less to England after the divorce of the resolutely European Scotland?
The Jacques Delors Institute invites you to debate these questions in the presence of the United Kingdom’s ambassador to France.