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Old 07-23-2016, 02:23 AM   #656 (permalink)
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^ Yes, most people wish that "out" just meant "out", but unfortunately it's a very complicated business which'll take years. (Our entry took 7 years and, rather at random, I read that a non-EU trade agreement between just two countries took 10 years to complete.) So we have to resign ourselves to watching a snail race. But some things have changed already; there was some EU meeting the other day from which the Brits were excluded.
Until two years after the invoking of Art. 50, the UK is still a complete part of the EU. the only limitation is that it (logically) is asked to leave the room when questions concerning the EU position in the negotiation of the Brexit is underway.
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