Britain’s Transition Phase Out of EU Will Likely Look Like Status Quo

Two-year period may not be enough to seal long-term ties with bloc—yet too long for critics who see U.K. as ‘vassal state’ in the interim

It’s time to talk transition. In coming weeks, Brexit negotiations will turn to what happens in the period immediately after Britain’s departure from the European Union on March 29, 2019.

We know more or less what the transition will look like. It will replicate EU membership with one big difference: Britain will lose its say in EU decision-making.

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