Strategic Options for the EU: Institutional Reactions to Brexit

Abstract

This chapter looks at the reactions of the key European Union (EU) institutions to the challenge of Brexit, and how they have made a special effort to maintain a unified position not just with regard to common guidelines for the Brexit negotiations with the UK, but also as regards wider working methods and the next steps forward for the EU. More specifically, the chapter reviews the Bratislava and Rome Declarations as well as Donald Tusk’s Leaders Agenda, the European Commission’s White Paper and its five scenarios, and some of the main resolutions that have been adopted by the EP since the Brexit referendum.