Brexit - a tragic continuity of Europe's daily operation

The British vote to leave the European Union came as a surprise and a shock. It has been understood as an aberration, as a triumph of populism and nationalism, in conflict with the ethos of the Union. But Brexit should not be understood as a mere aberration, but instead as one position on continuum of exhausted thinking about EU and (transnational) law in general. From the perspective of "pure" legal theory, Brexit is self-referential, resulting from the internal dynamics of the system. It is a result of the general lack of legal and economic imagination as to how the EU should be reordered and reimagined.

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SUGGESTED CITATION Kukovec, Damjan: Brexit – a Tragic Continuity of Europe’s Daily Operation, VerfBlog, 2016/10/07, https://verfassungsblog.de/brexit-a-tragic-continuity-of-europes-dai... DOI: 10.17176/20161007-145741.