Explaining Article 50 – The Formal Mechanism For Leaving The European Union (EU) -Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel

What Is Article 50? Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union allows a member state to notify the EU of its withdrawal and obliges the EU to try to negotiate a ‘withdrawal agreement’ with that state – it involves five points laid out below.   “Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements. A Member State which decides to withdraw shall notify the European Council…

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