BREXIT A NEW ROAD MAP OF EUROPE

You have to know, the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the collapse of communist regimes in central and Eastern Europe will open a new chapter in European unification.

- ALI EL AALLAOUI *

In fact, during the euphoria of German unification and the enlargement of the EU to the countries of the East, the UK, anxious to preserve their economic privileges, see this situation as a future threat to their place in the European chessboard and international affairs. However, it should not be forgotten that the UK concerns are no longer limited to the economy as it was before, it claims to be bored in politics and even in geopolitics, thus was born another British concern. That is to say, their power status is more and more decreasing. Thus was born the idea of Brexit whether soft or hard.

The consequence of Brexit can accentuate the impression of a general disintegration of the EU, which has been built up since the Treaty of Lisbon ten years ago. In this context, the UK will leave the EU after 47 years of an eventful life together.

The question that arises today it is possible to talk about another Europe without the UK? We already suspect.

The background of Euro-British divorce

At the end of the Second World War, Western Europe will feel the need to regroup economically and politically. In this direction, September 1946, in a speech Winston Churchill (1874-1965) spoke of his vision for "the United States of Europe". However, from the beginning, you should know that the British model for Europe was well established in the vision of Churchill of the three circles represented by the Commonwealth, Europe and the United States, at the centre of which Great Britain had to keep a strategic position.

The weight of history and the perception of each other between Great Britain and the Franco-German couple are behind the disenchantment that characterizes the political relations of the EU with the UK despite the existence of a cordial understanding between the UK and France since 1904.