Britain will not quit the European Union (EU) despite voting to do so in a June 23 referendum, said Austria’s Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling, in an interview published on Tuesday. “In five years there will still be 28 member states,” Schelling told German business daily Handelsblatt.
“The European leaders were discussing all possibilities from Britain remaining in the EU to sealing a free trade agreement on the Swiss or Norwegian model,” the former businessman said. Schelling said the United Kingdom could break up with Scotland and Northern Ireland where the majority of the electorate voted to stay and they would remain members of the EU while the pro-Brexit England would go its own way. In the historic vote, 52% of Britons voted to leave the EU and 48% voted to remain.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2016.
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