It’s over. The UK has served its notice to the EU: we don’t want to be with you anymore, we want to see other people. As break-ups go, this one is pretty monumental.
European newspapers reported the serving of article 50, with a mixture of pain, puzzlement and predictions that the next two years of divorce negotiations could get nasty – especially, warn some papers, if the UK resorts to “blackmail” over security cooperation.
Le Monde said: “What a surprise … This is barefaced blackmail: if you don’t open your single market to our products, the UK will cease police, intelligence and anti-terror cooperation.”
Spain’s El País wrote that the “time of poetry is over, and now it is the turn of hard prose … A colossal project for which there is no precedent.”
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