As it happened: First EU summit post-Brexit

29-06-2016 (updated: 30-09-2016 )

The British people have spoken, now the member states have to start thinking about life after the UK. [Shutterstock]

Following the UK’s historic decision to leave the EU, member states convened in Brussels to begin the unprecedented decision of discussing the terms of its divorce. Follow EURACTIV’s live blog below for all the developments as they happened.

23 June: 51.9% of voters chose to the leave the EU. Over 30 million people turned out.
24 June: David Cameron announces he will resign as Prime Minister by October.
28-29 June: EU leaders urge Britain to trigger Brexit negotiation as soon as possible.

Cameron gets okay for successor to trigger Brexit at Brussels ‘last supper’

British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to deny the United Kingdom had collapsed “politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically” last night, after his final summit with EU leaders before the UK leaves the bloc.

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7 responses to “As it happened: First EU summit post-Brexit”

Jean-Claude says:

27/06/2016 at 12:51

The international community must impose sanctions on the UK if it does not respect immediately the will of its people.

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Arkitekten31 says:

27/06/2016 at 15:14

As a non-EU citizen but an entrepreneur working with EU firms on energy efficiency in the built environment, I think it wise that the EU Commission and the EU Parliament allow the U.K. government and their several National governments, such as Scotland, Northern Ireland, time to digest Brexit and figure out their own strategy. EU Commission should not rush to judgment on what the strategy going forward should be before these National governments figure things out because they may want to remain in the EU, as their voting percentages indicated last week.

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Ari Rusila says:

28/06/2016 at 03:01

In my opinion EU has been moving more and more towards Federalism and in Eurozone even towards Unitary system; from my perspective now is the time make an u-turn and start to develop EU towards (Democratic) Confederalism. More in “EU Reaching Cul-De-Sac Due Brexit – Revival Of Confederalism Necessary” – https://arirusila.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/eu-reaching-cul-de-sac-due-brexit-revival-of-confederalism-necessary/

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- an european says:
  
  29/06/2016 at 11:37
  
  The Link is a propaganda by an Anti-european media ! Neither is the Eurozone federal nor Confederal nor has real executive power and the Facts are there ! All those economic slowdowns are becasuse there is no fiscal discipline at all and impossible to achieve but the Eurozone must have stipulated base federal rules under the EMU inluded the single market which still lacks ! nothing more ! It doesn’t need brick and brocks or cul des sacks just and simple the necessary rules .
  The USSR was a full and heavily centralized military power basically everything under state rules called –> communism like North -Korea so please don’t compare it !
  Therefore the UDSSR had to step down onto Federalism which is still by far more centralized than the U.S. under bi-federalism.
  Most strongest economies have federal systems with less restrictions to exports goods outside unlike restriced economies in Europe !
  Amazon is a good example on discrepancies which reins economic discrepancies inside Europe ! Unlike Amazon.com you’re free to buy where you want wheatever states the goods comes from! Whilst inside the E.U. you’re on restricted to buy depending where you live wether you buy on Amazon.de /fr / es /co.uk !
  Now look the same produkt on Amazoin.de and amazon.fr you will notice that .de is always cheaper ! So that works well for Germany and bad for France ! Inside competion is killing and often they don’t sell outside their territory ! only a Baby example ! Therefore only Unity can solve those problems !
  
  E Pluribus Unum
  
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an european says:

28/06/2016 at 11:47

Not for ungood but why have I the feel that Britain at heart still wants to remain IN !
Cameron is delaying it’s Art.50 ! Geozzy Osbourne don’t want a Brexit ! Half England regrets it and Britain regretts it !
the Petition of 3 mil of signatures is an indication of beggin’ to remain IN !!
Some Brits politicians are now asking more and more how not to leave the single market by Brexit but thus will never be possible under the base freedoms !!
The whole Britain is realizing the damage done and still coming more and more ! What’s the endresult now ! ART.50 YES or NO ?
Why don’t Cameron take that decision himself ?! What is he still waiting before taking any responibilities if the whole political outcome was done by him !
The markets won’t rest in peace by uncertainety and still plummeting decling Pond at lowest downgrading the whole uk losing jobs .. ! Now what ?!?

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eusebio manuel says:

29/06/2016 at 16:21

In urban areas of high density people tend to be more Democratic and in rural areas people tend to be more fascist and populist The license of Trumpism Bristish was based on lies If it had been a Parliamentary election the result would be null Stop Brexit in Europe

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Ari Rusila says:

30/06/2016 at 14:58

http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/eu-reaching-cul-de-sac-due-brexit-revival-of-confederalism-necessary

In my opinion EU has been moving more and more towards Federalism and in Eurozone even towards Unitary system; from my perspective now is the time make an u-turn and start to develop EU towards (Democratic) Confederalism. I share in the highest degree the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan’s – leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party -paper on Democratic Confederalism (http://www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ocalan-Democratic-Confederalism.pdf ). He e.g. notes that Democratic confederalism is based on grass-roots participation. Its decision-making processes lie with the communities. Higher levels only serve the coordination and implementation of the will of the communities that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For limited space of time they are both mouthpiece and executive institutions. However, the basic power of decision rests with the local grass-roots institutions. Although in democratic Confederalism the focus is on the local level, organizing confederalism globally is not excluded.
In EU today the ‘austerity’ measures are destroying national economies making it impossible for them to ever to pay back those debts created by banksters of virtual economy and their political cabals. At grassroots people have become the victim of parasitic credit capitalism and its unelected institutions. Neoliberal capitalism has been winning ground last 30 years. During last five years emergency economics has made it possible to replace democracy with debtocracy. Coming back to present-day EU I see two dominating trends among EU leaders: First is to cut losses of players in virtual economy at the expense of taxpayers and the second is to guide EU towards strict federation at the expense of democracy. Change to this is needed for saving 99 % of people instead saving profits of the rest one per cent. With today’s strategy there is a risk that the combination of economic insecurity and political paralysis has been recipe for an increase in extremism and xenophobia. It is slow motion death spiral of economic collapse. That is the base to my view that people and the real world should be the first priority and not virtual economy, fiscal system, euro or EU elite. In my opinion it is time to whistle game out, collect losses and start new game in Day after Euro/EU context.

From my point of view subsidiary principle should be widen so that more legislation should be implemented at national level and those few remaining issues could be decided between governments and implemented by slimmed European Commission and its agencies. With this approach the whole EP could be closed as useless extra body. This outcome – which I have called as EU lite (http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/eu-in-turmoil-and-not-only-in-financial-one/ ) version – is about the opposite to ongoing federalist tendency and indeed I support rebuilding EU with Confederalist approach. EU Lite should be build simply to EU’s early basics as economical cooperation area including a customs union, the EU tariff band, competition etc linked to idea of the Common Market. EU Lite could also apply a structure of Confederation. Federalist intentions, the EU puppet parliament and the most of EU bureaucracy should from my point of view put in litter basket together with high-flown statements and other nonsense. In my opinion average citizen does not need EU to decide how wide tires one have in tractor or how big curve bananas can have.

I see some benefits with Confederalist view in new desirable politics. Policy-making starts from community assemblies based on the practices of participatory democracy and continues further by interlinking villages, towns, neighborhoods, and cities into confederal networks. Power thus flows from the bottom up instead of from the top down like today. With critical issues – such as human rights, civil liberties, international policy etc political units can adopt a common constitution while the task of central governments would be providing support for all members. Democratic Confederalism is based on grass-roots participation. Its decision-making processes lie with the communities; in conclusion my vision is decentralized society a network of directly democratic citizens’ assemblies in individual communities/cities organized in a confederal fashion.
Sure the scenario above can be seen as Utopian – however from my perspective the process or moving towards that Utopia is the core question. More in “EU Reaching Cul-De-Sac Due Brexit – Revival Of Confederalism Necessary” (http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/eu-reaching-cul-de-sac-due-brexit-revival-of-confederalism-necessary/ )

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