A Strategy for Europe from National Perspectives: Great Britain

Abstract

The shock of Brexit revealed to Britons how important the EU was and still is. Britain now recognises that it needs an EU that is a geopolitical actor, but - given rejoining is unlikely anytime soon - it faces difficult choices about what it can do to help. To move Europe, Britain is going to need to work harder than when it was a member state. In this, the British face two problems: coming to domestic agreement that closer relations with the EU are worth the political risk and convincing the EU to deepen relations with Britain.