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Politicos Disagree on Solution to EU Challenges
July 11, 2016
An article in The Economist considers how politicians in the EU institutions and its member states are calling for contradictory responses to Britain's exit from the bloc, ranging from returning more authority to the national governments to speeding along EU federalization.
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EU Leaders Head off "Copycat" Referendums
July 11, 2016
The Economist reports that leaders of EU member states are reacting to the recent UK vote to leave the EU by seeking to prevent referendums in their own countries in which their citizens decide whether they remain part of the bloc.
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Gray: EU Stokes Tension with Rule of Law Framework
July 06, 2016
Former US Ambassador to the EU Boyden Gray writes that the EU's use of its Rule of Law Framework to pressure Poland to resolve its constitutional court standoff has no solid basis in the bloc's treaties and threatens to blow open tensions between the EU and its member states in the wake of Brexit.
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Letts: UK Leaders Must Respect Vote for Sovereignty
July 01, 2016
Quentin Letts of The Daily Mail writes that the vote for Brexit was UK citizens' rebellion against their leaders in asserting the national sovereignty which British officials had declined to protect.
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Academic: Brexit Shows Power of "Left-Behind"
July 01, 2016
Professor Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent writes that, rather than focus on personalities dominating the campaign for the UK to leave the EU, observers should seek to understand the cultivation of euroskeptic views among British blue collar workers and the "left-behind" as an explanation for Brexit.
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