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The opposition is firing back, organizing via the National Assembly an official referendum, on the basis of articles 333 and 350 of the constitution.
Thanks to “reinforced cooperation,” recalcitrant states will no longer hinder those seeking to make progress, and could even resort to an “opt-out” process and “liberate” themselves from the EU, perhaps by means of a referendum.
And Spain’s recent general election, held three days after the Brexit referendum, suggests that, despite high unemployment, austerity, and painful structural reforms, moderate, pro-European forces remain a majority.
So is the Brexiteers’ lack of any plan whatsoever for how to proceed after the referendum.
A year later, a new referendum approved the Nice Treaty, after it became clear that Ireland’s EU membership was at stake.
But this time it is difficult to see a way out that offers a second referendum.
As Denmark’s foreign minister at the time, I was able to secure some opt-outs from EU directives, and then a second referendum was held.
Investment plans are made in advance, so it may take, say, a year for the impact of that uncertainty to materialize – as was the case in the United Kingdom following the 2016 Brexit referendum.
This year, on June 23, it will hold a referendum on whether to leave.
In 2014, Scotland voted in its own referendum to remain in the UK; but the nationalists won almost all of Scotland’s seats in the general election eight months later.
With Scottish opinion much more pro-European than in England, many believe that Brexit would lead to another referendum on independence.
No British prime minister could consent to a treaty change to create a fiscal union without having to call a referendum at home, the outcome of which would force the UK to withdraw from the EU.
When Yes Means NoMost commentators routinely assume that a Yes vote in the May 29 French referendum on the proposed European Union Constitution would be good for Europe and the EU.
The French referendum will determine the political fate of French President Jacques Chirac – not France’s commitment to Europe, which is fixed and immutable.
The fate of the Franco-German axis, in particular, hinges on the outcome of the referendum.
The prospect of a re-energized Franco-German axis is why the Dutch – who are traditionally pro-European but do not want a Europe that marginalizes small countries – might vote No in their referendum (which follows shortly upon France’s) if the French vote Yes.
Eastern Europe also has a big stake in the outcome of the French referendum.
Finally, the referendum contains an unstated question about the future of European Monetary Union (EMU) and the euro.
Or was it the Troika’s explicit threat of bank closures (which were actually imposed when we dared to put our creditors’ ultimatum to the Greek people in a referendum last July)?
Since the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and US President Donald Trump’s election last year, populism has posed an existential threat to the European Union.
Throughout the crisis, European leaders have tried to respond to the gaps in the monetary union without proposing a new treaty, because they fear that any new treaty proposing more centralization of authority in Brussels would be rejected, either by national parliaments or by voters in a referendum.
For example, Japan could simply continue to increase the defense budget, reinterpret the existing constitution, and strengthen collective security; the capacity of Japanese special forces could be expanded; or Article 9 could be repealed altogether by a vote in both houses of the Diet, followed by a national referendum.
But it was clearly stated that last June’s referendum on Britain’s European Union membership was merely consultative and not binding on parliament.
Moreover, the various Brexit options were never discussed as alternatives – much less voted upon – during the referendum campaign.
The result of a “Brexit election,” which took place once voters knew that Brexit really could happen, would have turned into a re-run of the referendum and could have been highly unpredictable.
This danger was highlighted last week by a YouGov poll, which for the first time showed a plurality regretting the result of the Brexit referendum.
It resorted to the same obfuscation that had served the Brexiteers so well during the referendum – and won the vote.
The fact that 55.8% of Northern Irish voters backed “Remain” in the 2016 referendum partly reflects this astonishing achievement.
Failing that, they would demand a rerun of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s insistence that a referendum should be held on Turkey’s admission suggests that years of painful adjustment to EU norms will never produce the payoff of membership.
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