{"id":128583,"date":"2020-01-20T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/20\/its-not-just-british-leavers-the-rest-of-europe-is-responsible-for-brexit-too-eric-jozsef\/"},"modified":"2020-01-20T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:46:28","slug":"its-not-just-british-leavers-the-rest-of-europe-is-responsible-for-brexit-too-eric-jozsef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128583","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just British leavers \u2013 the rest of Europe is responsible for Brexit, too | Eric Jozsef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK departure from the EU isn\u2019t a solely British issue, yet Europeans have connived with Brexiters in pretending it is\u201cBrexit will never happen. Too complicated, too damaging to the British economy, too anachronistic.\u201d How many times in the last three years \u2013 from Rome to Berlin, Paris to Bucharest \u2013 did we hear this belief asserted so confidently as to admit no discussion? The United Kingdom\u2019s exit from the European Union is now imminent. Yet much of Europe\u2019s public and many of its politicians have not truly grasped the consequences of the historic break that is about to take place, nor have they tried to understand the reasons. On 31 January the first concrete step in Boris Johnson\u2019s political game plan will be achieved. And, even if no new barriers will immediately be apparent at the borders, we will from this date start to drift apart. Johnson won his bet using a simple strategy: he sold the illusion that the politicians who lead Europe\u2019s nation states still hold the reins of power in a globalised world. He won on the false promise that Brexit allow the British people to \u201ctake back control\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/20\/europe-responsible-brexit-eu-uk\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s not just British leavers \u2013 the rest of Europe is responsible for Brexit, too | Eric Jozsef<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK departure from the EU isn\u2019t a solely British issue, yet Europeans have connived with Brexiters in pretending it is\u201cBrexit will never happen. Too complicated, too damaging to the British economy, too anachronistic.\u201d How many times in the last three years \u2013 from Rome to Berlin, Paris to Bucharest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}