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Britain free to cancel Article 50, rules ECJ


Judges at the European Court of Justice have given MPs a new option to unilaterally revoke the EU’s Article 50 withdrawal process WILL OLIVER/EPABrexit can be cancelled after a second referendum against leaving the European Union or a vote in the House of Commons, Europe’s highest court in Luxembourg ruled today. In a victory for Remain campaigners seeking to reverse Brexit, judges at the European Court of Justice have given MPs a new option to unilaterally revoke the EU’s Article 50 withdrawal process. “The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU,” the court said in a statement. “Such a revocation, decided in accordance with its own national constitutional requirements, would have the effect that the UK remains in the EU under terms that are unchanged as regards its status as a member state.”The ruling is a blow…


Source: The Times December 10, 2018 09:00 UTC



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