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May Day

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May gets into her vehicle as she leaves 10 Downing Street on her way to the House of Commons in London, Wednesday March 29,
2017. Britain filed for divorce from the European Union on Wednesday. May triggered the two-year divorce process in a six-page letter to EU Council President Donald
Tusk, vowing that Britain will maintain a “deep and special partnership” with its neighbors in the bloc. In response, Tusk told Britain: “We already miss you.”
(Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
It’s Not EU, It’s Me: UK Files for EU Divorce after 44 Years

JILL LAWLESS letter to EU Council Presi- from six founding members ments after her letter was much in exchange for a
RAF CASERT dent Donald Tusk, vowing six decades ago to a vast, hand-delivered to Tusk in good trade deal with the
Associated Press that Britain will maintain a largely borderless span of Brussels by Britain’s ambas- EU. For their part, the other
LONDON (AP) — Britain filed “deep and special part- 28 nations and half a bil- sador to the EU, Tim Barrow. 27 members of the bloc will
for divorce from the Euro- nership” with its neighbors lion people. Nationalist and In the letter, May said the need to stick together and
pean Union on Wednes- in the bloc. In response, populist parties are on the two sides should “engage stand firm as they ride out
day, with fond words and Tusk told Britain: “We al- march across the continent with one another construc- the biggest threat in the
promises of friendship that ready miss you.” May’s in- in revolt against the bloc’s tively and respectfully, in a union’s history.
could not disguise the his- vocation of Article 50 of mission of “ever-closer spirit of sincere coopera- Brexit has been hailed by
toric nature of the schism the EU’s key treaty sets the union.” And in Washington, tion.” populists across Europe —
— or the years of argu- clock ticking on two years President Donald Trump But for all the warmth, the including French far-right
ment and hard-nosed bar- of negotiations until Britain has derided the EU, NATO next two years will be a leader Marine Le Pen —
gaining ahead as the U.K. becomes the first major na- and other pillars of Western tough test of the notion who hope the U.K. is only
leaves the embrace of the tion to leave the union — order built up since World that divorcees can remain the first in a series of depar-
bloc for an uncertain future as Big Ben bongs midnight War II. “This is an historic good friends. tures. EU leaders are de-
as “global Britain.” on March 29, 2019. moment from which there May is under pressure from termined to stop that hap-
Prime Minister Theresa May The U.K.’s departure could can be no turning back,” her Conservative Party and pening.
triggered the two-year di- not come at a worse time May told lawmakers in the Britain’s largely Euroskeptic
vorce process in a six-page for the EU, which has grown House of Commons, mo- press not to concede too Continued on Page 2