The EU will treat Britain like Greece
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Source: Sunday Telegraph
By Matthew Holehouse, Brussels
I arrived in Brussels as the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in early June, 2015. A fortnight later, Alexis Tsipras snubbed Brussels, and called a referendum on the third bailout that was designed to save the Eurozone from collapse.
The terms he was later given - €50bn of assets sold and a de facto control of economic policy surrendered - were so harsh they were later denounced as a "coup".
It taught me two things: that in the cause of its salvation the European Union can be profoundly flexible and exceptionally brutal, and that events can swiftly take a momentum that is hard to control.
Nothing of that experience gives me hope for the years that now await our country.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/the-eu-will-treat-britain-like-greece/
This gives a very good idea of what to expect from the EU. Now that the UK has taken its decision, this is about survival of the EU. The "European Project" must survive.
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