Quote Originally Posted by Firn View Post
EU Support Surges in Denmark as Brexit Scare Spreads in Nordics, according to Bloomberg.



I'm not surprised by those developments in Denmark as the political outfall in the UK was heavy and the negative economic consequences were strongly highlighted in Italian media. A surprisingly large space was giving to hate crimes against foreigners, in some cases through Italian citiziens living in the UK. If Danish reporting was similar it will have pushed EU support.

Who knows how this will influence the negotiations. On one hand their might less need for the EU to be harsh to avoid the dominio effect, on the other it might be deduced that a hard and principled EU approach is signaling properly and is thus working.
Firn,

BREXIT may be the first step in reforming the EU. These reforms are desperately needed, individual countries need to be able to act independently (this is what sovereignty is all about). I'm not overly concerned, a thousand tweets claiming the sky is falling won't change that. There is also a chance this will make NATO stronger. The excessive political collectivism mandated by the EU makes Europe easier for Russia to manipulate.